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Savvy seems to know this issue but I would add that I know for dogs when their penis gets stuck out you can wash it with sugar water. That some how moves the blood away and makes it easier to retract.

She still is eating chick starter, but I am slowly integrating layer pellets, also table scraps; tomato ends carrot tops etc. She is in a hen house with two other birds and a chicken run 250 sq feet

My Amerucana Omarx has stopped growing at 14 weeks and is skinny, she was the largest of the three and now is much smaller. Poop is almost all liquid but not bloody. She seems happy and eats well, voraciously really. Is this perhaps worms or an internal parasite. What should I be looking for...

Quote: thanks. The walls are reclaimed cork flooring from a bar remodel( the night light on se clinton for any pdxers)

gawsh. Thanks

I set an opening just a hair larger than the frame and set the window inside with a lip on the bottom and screwed a block of wood in place on the top edge. I put poultry mesh on the inside of the frame and now I can easily take the window out and have an open air coop if the weather ever gets...

I based my colors on peacock feathers--blue cyan indigo and a gold-green

Name: (chick) Omarx Breed: Ameracana Color: Blue Wheaten Age: 4 weeks

Butterfly bushes are pretty and attract butterflies, but are an invasive problem in Oregon because they are such quick growing/spreading plants and they choke out natives along the waterways. You are not supposed to even put their clippings in the green waste recycle. But they still sell it...

ravens work with other species and will call out to wolves when they spot prey for the pack. Then they sit around and wait for leftovers. Might work with cyotes too though havent heard of that.

my local feed store rents cage traps and they have sizes just for racoons. I took mine across the river here and let them out in a wooded area.

I'm distressed to hear racoons can eat through poultry mesh, as that's the predator round here I'm most worried about. I just covered the top of the run with 1" hex mesh and now wonder if it was for naught. I used zip ties as well on the seams and wove wire through or twisted the half hexes at...

thanks for this pic. My cukoo maran chick developed a comb so much earlier than the others in my brood I was worried she was a roo. But she's dark like your female so I guess she's a she afterall.

this is great info, thanks a bunch

I searched the database and was surprised to find no threads on this. I am building my ramp to the henhouse and am wodering what this great body of chicken knowledge suggests for cleat size, shape and spacing on a ramp. They are standard breeds. Thanks Aaron

I faced my pressure treated wood in the run with reclaimed fence boards. They (the birds) might not get sick, but if you eat the eggs, like it says on the wood tag, you are ingesting chem. known to the state of california to cause cancer.

I built the fence with 4"x4" posts , 4' hardware cloth going 10" below grade and toed 2" out. 2"x4"s and 1" poultry mesh up and over the run. I made mine 8' tall to go above the windows on the side of the house, so I can eaisly walk inside, I'm 6'2". I faced the pressure treated wood with...

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the hen house is built and in an enclosed 8'x30' run. It is possible to expand the henhouse, though I doubt I will get more hens ,much as I might want I live inside city limits and three is my max. I made a storage area that is also covered and possible to convert.

Chicks are still in brooder and coop is mostly done. I wanted to have my waterer and automatic feeder hanging under the coop, but as I watch the rain come down(this is Pacific NW and not rare) I wonder if my chicks maybe will not want to leave the henhouse and get wet to go under to get food...