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  1. GWCooper

    Chicken Tractors - How do they work ?

    Here is what I started with. I found it to be a pain to move and the birds dug up holes and the grass in less then a week. My plan was to move it once a week when I mowed, now I moved it to a permanent location and made an addition to it with free fencing I got from my sister. This is my full...
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    Molting and frostbite

    I have no roosters, only seven hens. And it doesn't look like bad frostbite, just redness suspected from cold exposure where she had missing feathers. She is missing more feathers and that area is not redened, only where the smaller baldness was before losing more. It could possibly be from...
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    Molting and frostbite

    First question: Do birds molt at any specific time of year? It's winter and cold here in Michigan and I had a couple birds molt in late fall, but now I have one bird that seems to be molting or has lost a lot of feathers on her back and appears to have red skin in that area from the cold...
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    New subscriber, long time thread browser.

    Hello, I am located in Burton Michigan and started raising my own birds spring of 2012. I already had much knowledge since I had friends with byc's. But I had a question I needed help with, I'll post that in another thread. Originally I built a movable coop/run but decided to move to a permanent...
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    What snacks DON'T or chickens like???

    Hi, I'm a new subscriber here... My coop/run is a chicken composting machine! It's a complete end to end cycle. All kitchen scraps, coffe grounds, grass clippings, leaves, coop litter, straw, shreded cardboard, everything goes in the open air run to be eaten and/or composted, which also brings...
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