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    Hen limping, legs covered in something white; what's going on?

    I'm going to take a good look at her legs tomorrow, and hopefully get some pictures. I don't know if it's the mites or not...in all of the pictures that I've seen, they still look like legs, just with wacky scales. Hers look like she was standing in wet cement. For future reference though...
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    Hen limping, legs covered in something white; what's going on?

    Quote: Thank you! I was searching for threads, but wasn't finding anything.
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    Hen limping, legs covered in something white; what's going on?

    I should have taken a picture today, but it didn't dawn on me until right now. My Japanese Banty has been limping for a couple of weeks. My husband told me about it when he first noticed, but my pregnant brain forgot within seconds...anyway, I noticed the limp today. She seems perfectly...
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    I have no idea what to feed my chickens!

    Insert embarrassed face here... We were given our Japanese hen as a gift, and she came with a bag of mash (?), so I haven't had to worry about buying her food. The bag is almost empty, so I'm heading over to the feed store today to buy something. I know what she can have for treats, but I...
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    If you live in Norco, on the corner of Corona and Third...

    Can you please pm me? Weird request, I know! I'm wondering if this person is on BYC...if you are, you live in my DH's grandparents' old house, and I was checkin' out your chicken coop a couple of hours ago (in the dark, from my car). I want to know what's up with your chickens sleeping on top...
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    Here are some pictures of my design, and some info. Feedback, please!

    Quote: Good to know! I thought that I needed one nest box for each hen. Quote: I'll have to be the one to go look for the hardware cloth the next time. Really, DH didn't know what he was looking for. He asked, and was told that if it was not in a certain section (where he looked), that...
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    Hi, from Valley Springs, Ca.

    welcome from so cal!
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    Here are some pictures of my design, and some info. Feedback, please!

    DH and I are really trying to make something out of nothing here, lol. He's doing all of the building; I'm just the one bringing him all of the information from the internet, and demanding that he build me a coop! We have NO building/design/carpentry experience, so this is quite an adventure...
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    Some nest box questions

    -How big do my nest boxes need to be? -Do they need to be a considerable distance from the ground? -Can they be open in the front and the back?
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    My chicken sounds like a goose

    That's the only way I can describe the noises I'm hearing. Is this a sign that "she" is going to be a rooster?
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    Does my coop need a floor?

    Sorry for asking ten thousand questions today! I still feel soooo lost with all of this. My coop is on the ground; do I need to have an official floor, or can it just be the earth?
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    Another question- roost, in relation to nest boxes?

    We decided not to use it. We were trying to rig it for nesting boxes, inside of a coop DH made out of shipping pallets, but it's a few inches too wide. No biggie, really; we were just trying to be creative!
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    Another question- roost, in relation to nest boxes?

    We're planning on using an old wooden electronic cabinet as a small coop. It's 3.5'x2'x1.5x. Where do we put the roost, and where do we put the boxes? This is for 3 bantams and a Japanese.
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    How much room for each chicken?

    Quote: Hm, okay, thanks. It looks like we'll have about 2.5 if we stick with our current plan...
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    How much room for each chicken?

    I know that I've read this like twenty times here, but I can't seem to remember what I read. How much room do I need in the coop for each chicken? It's warm here most of the year, only gets below freezing a couple of nights in Dec/Jan, and we don't get tons of rain. We do get hot winds in the...
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    How to prevent drafts?

    thanks for all of the input. i think i have it all figure out now...i think, lol. pat, the link in your siggy was very helpful! we're inland, so no beach weather here. it's dry and hot for a good part of the year, and the santa anas are generally hot winds as well. they're the great winds...
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    If my chickens are going to be pastured, do they need a run?

    well, i was planning to come back and say that, for now, we're just going to build a coop, close off the "chicken range", and eventually build a large enclosure as a run. then i went outside and found my japanese hen on top of her current "coop" (a cube of shipping pallets with a tarp thrown...
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    buying chicks wen i can't have roosters...bad idea?

    Quote: Wow, like getting a dog de-barked? Interesting. I'm nowhere near ready to handle the extra responsibility that comes with all of that right now though. In the future, I'd like to hatch my own, but as of right now, we're just trying to get it together enough to have a decent place for...
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