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    Is electric fencing safe or effective for chickens?

    We have a large new raised flower bed that I want to protect from our hens' free-ranging demolition. While they have various places for dust bathing, this new attraction has their full attention and the bed won't survive their attacks if I cannot keep them out of it. Is electric fencing safe...
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    hybrid flyers-worried

    I've read many threads on here about controlling flight of chickens. We have five Araucanas (probably not pure strain) and six mixed hybrid pullets hatched in late March, early April. Only one is laying so far, that we know of. Our problem? They are flyers. The first seems to have taught...
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    No longerfluff babies, but...

    I've several questions about my growing up chicks. For how long do I need to offer medicated water? I have two groups: 5 Araucana pullets are about 7 weeks (from Orscheln and no clear age was offered to me when I got them) They are with their adopted Silkie mom who pretty much rules their...
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    Pasty butt in older hen?

    I've been searching info on pasty butt, most of which refers to the condition in young chicks. Is it reasonable to find the problem with an older hen? We've had our BO hen a year, and she's probably 2-2 1/2 years old. She's been quiet the past few days, but then today I saw her hunched over...
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    Mystery missing Silkie hen:(

    This morning I discovered that little Blue, our dark Silkie hen, is missing from her pen in our barn. I was turning deep litter in the big hens' neighboring pen when I realized I hadn't seen Blue scratching around with her other four Silkie sisters. I hunted all around the pen, in and behind...
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    Administrators, would you please merge...

    I see that another thread on nearly the same topic as my "Hurrah for mid-Mo" is running. Both celebrate last night's decision by the Columbia, MO, city council to allow backyard chickens. If possible, could these two threads be merged since they are so closely related by topic? (And if this...
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    Hurrah for mid-Mo!

    I just read on the news that the city council of Columbia, Missouri, has just approved backyard chickens, limited to six hens, no roos, and spacial requirements for location of coop in relation to property lines and neighbors. I grew up in Columbia, live a dozen miles from there now, enjoy the...
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    Cabin Fever and Catalogs

    So, after weeks of seldom-before-seen frigid weather, snow, gales, we are thawing, running water and oozy mud everywhere. AWFUL outside, so where am I? Knowing my hens are snug in their indoor runs and coop, I'm snuggled indoors with my seed and hatchery catalogs, spring dreamin'. Pages of...
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    Use this winter's DL for this spring's garden compost?

    In anticipation of this spring's garden, I'm wondering if the Deep Litter compost that is accumulating in our hens' coop and indoor pens will be suitably broken down to apply to the garden before planting? I'm unclear if the pooh and ammonia in the litter will loosen and fertilize well and not...
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    Silkie Mystery

    We've had five Silkies, age 8 mos to one and a half years, for two months now. No rooster. In the beginning, we were getting four eggs daily. Recently it had dropped to three, and then only one this past week. Two of the little hens are very broody, rarely leaving their nest boxes, often...
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    Looking like a porcupine!

    Thanks in advance to anyone who replies with ideas for me. I thought my hens had gone through their molt in Oct/Nov, but the past two weeks have seen one of my "little red hens" suddenly go bare on the back of her neck and around the part where her hackles grew. Well, not exactly bare. All...
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    Will hens safely eat soured cottage cheese?

    Silly question? I don't know, but I hate to waste food if the hens can enjoy it. I found a nearly full container of cottage cheese soured:( I first began to pitch it, but then I wondered if this might be okay for the hens. Please reply quickly (and thanks!) if you have an answer for me so I...
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    A funny thing happened...

    I learned on this great forum that one way to keep hens from becoming bored and pecking/tormenting one another is to hang a head of cabbage just above their heads so they have to stretch or jump a little to get their treat. We tried that, and were delighted to watch our girls jumping and...
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    Nest boxes for sleep?

    We have a very small coop for our 15 hens, but it seems to tidily fit their needs. It's elevated on 3' posts, it is about 6' X 4', is about 4 1/2 feet at its highest point, sloping to about 3' where the nest boxes project out. We have only one 5' roost, a 2 X 4, where some of the hens perch at...
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    Expanding winter quarters...

    We have a variety of fifteen standard-sized hens in a raised 4 X 6 coop in which they only sleep and lay. Four covered nest boxes project from one of the 6' sides. The opposite side is up against our metal-sided barn. I keep their feeder and waterer under the coop and that's where they tend...
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