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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Everyone okay? Power on? It's definitely winter! Our birds have been inside for two days because the weather hasn't been very nice. Today I saw a wound on one of our pullets, the bird who was recently broody. Naturally, a 'keeper'! She's now separated and in view of the others, her own...
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    Help chick be less lonely during healing

    We too have two brooder plates, one smaller and one larger. And they never actually hold the number of chicks listed for the particular size, except maybe that first week. Like the fantasy numbers of birds who can live in those premade coops! mary
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    Is hardwood mulch a bad idea for building up a site before placing coop/run?

    Welcome! Two issues with hardwood mulch. Black walnut is a wonderful tree, but the bark and wood are toxic, at least for horses. Also, as mentioned above, any mulch will decay and shrink in depth over a very few years, eliminating the result you need. Use gravel or something more permanent...
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    Help chick be less lonely during healing

    I do sometimes (like right now) use a heat lamp, and it's so important to ignore the clamp some arrive with, and instead double or triple a hanging assembly instead. With a chain, to a solid overhead structure. I'm so glad your chick is healing, and that you didn't loose all of them, or burn...
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    What to use for feed

    We use metal garbage cans for feed storage and the Premier hanging yellow feeder for their food. And it's grubby in there, so true. Many of the birds roost in the rafters, and poop over those feeders. So, one has a bird feeder cover, and the other has an upside down water dish over it, to...
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    Heat Lamp Extension Cord length

    x2! It's meant to act like a broody hen, warm on the underside for the chicks. Our first one needed the temperature regulating attachment (from Premier) to keep it from being too hot to touch! Mary
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    Heat Lamp Extension Cord length

    I really like the brooder plates, but this is not a good time to have chicks outside anyway, with 15F temps! Never again will we do December chicks here, it hasn't been a good experience, and only in our 'never freezes' garage is it working out. Otherwise they would be actually in the house...
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    Heat Lamp Extension Cord length

    We had a licensed electrician set up the wiring at our coop, with buried wire run to the coop and everything up to code. Otherwise our farm policy wouldn't have covered anything out there, and it's safe. I agree about the brooder plate being safer, but it's still difficult if your are in near...
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    He or she?

    He shouldn't sire any offspring, his problem is genetic. Hope he continues to behave! mary
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    Dog training thread

    Go back to having her on leash, good collar, sharp as she needs. You can push her down from a sit by pushing on her back between her shoulders, usually works. Then stand on the leash, short enough that she can't get up, until you release her. Start with short moments, and work up from there...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Stay safe! Here the weather report says it's 33F, but at our house nothing is thawing yet, so not 32F. No wind, and maybe 1/4inch of ice on the trees, so okay so far. Chicks are doing fine, now four are about five weeks old, and three, including my lone bird, are two weeks old. No pictures...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Merry Christmas! Mary
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    Common Cold Medicine for Chickens?

    Random source (auction) birds can bring anything to your flock, which is why we never bring birds home from such places. @Eggcessive gave really good advice already. Hope your birds recover, and if things are going badly, having one or more tested for the various respiratory diseases possible...
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    Foraging Chickens eating bugs that have died from Insect Sprays

    Permethrin or the much more expensive spinosad. Mary
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    I'm so old I Remember when:

    And I do remember an icebox, and the ice storage market where we got the ice blocks all summer. At my aunt's summer log cabin in NW Wisconsin, before it had either electricity or a phone. Great for me as a child, and wouldn't want to live there in winter. Mary
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    I'm so old I Remember when:

    My hubby watches WW1 and WW2 programs, but never the Korean or Vietnam war stuff. Too close, and especially Vietnam, on TV daily. We were on an army base Okinawa during Vietnam, plenty close enough. Mary
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Twice we drove long distance in freezing rain, and I agree, NEVER AGAIN!!! Mary
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    Any guesses on genders?

    Both cockerels, my best guess. Cute, too! Mary
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    Adding Infected Chickens to Flock

    I agree about hatchery eggs, but would worry about eggs from many 'backyard' folks. Like the people the OP got those birds from recently! Mary
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    We've had snow, and cold already, so today it was kinda nice, 50F and sunny. Won't last, but nice anyway. This morning our one surviving October bantam EE chick started crowing! Cute, squeaky, and he may be a keeper. The pair of booted bantams he's been raised with will be leaving as soon as...
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