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  1. karen18

    Pros and Cons for using sand

    Thank you! I, like vsecretz, also am new and live in New England and am struggling with the run litter and coop info confussion as well. I appreciate the information. Karen
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    Pros and Cons for using sand

    I live in CT with snowy cold winters and was considering sand to for easier cleaning in the coop, but reading all these posts has gotten me conflicted. Since your climate seems to be similar, I would apprecriate your advise. I also have well built (amish made) coop with a glass board floor and...
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    Pros and Cons for using sand

    I dumped some pete moss in the run just to get rid of it and my girls went nuts - cooing, cackling, rolling around, digging - We never saw them happier!
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    COMPOSTING

    Hi egg man, won't the caffiene in the coffee grinds hurt the chickens? Fairlly new chicken mama, so I'm cautious with what I give them. Also. I red that they shouldn't have too much fat, but the wild birds love the suet cakes I give them so doesn't make sense to give them to my chickens as a...
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    Comment by 'karen18' in article 'Bedding Part 2: Maintaining Your Bedding'

    I've been using my shreded newspapers and white office paper as part of my bedding. Would you reccomend or discourage that? Awesome information - and much needed, Thanks!
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    Injured Chicken!

    I also am fairly new and discovered an injured hen today - PLEASE ADVISE - 10 months ago I bought 4 baby hens (easter-eggers) one of which, to our surprise, started "crowing" one day several months later. Up to this point they all got along fine (other then Henry - the rooster - jumping on &...
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    Coop litter

    I'm a new chicken mama & found hay & wood shavings stressful: too much volume that takes way too longe to break down. One day while shedding some mail I got the idea to use the shedded paper for litter and it works great!! Highly absorbant and easily broken down. AND IT'S FREE! I shread...
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    COMPOSTING

    okay, that explains the horrible smell comming out of my rubbermaid compost garbage can! absolutely putrid....It has cow/alpaca manure, veggie/fruit scaps, news paper. coffee grounds, etc. The more liquid I add, the stinkier it gets. I was thinking of assembling 4 wooden slated palets into a...
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    HELP! Fly Problem - Deep Litter Method

    aw, you're not a failure, and not alone! I just got 4 easter egger hens (one of which started, um, crowing...so 3 girls and a roo lol), and I put them in a 4x6 coop - which seems to need cleaning every other day, and attracts flies. ugh. I started cleaning it out every two to three days, but...
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    when do chickens/roosters start mating?

    Thank you for the info My chickens are easter eggers - 3 female and one roster - do you know if this breed are good mothers? They are around 12 weeks old and the rooster is chasing and trying to jump on all of them. I'm glad to know that silkies are good mothers. I'm hoping to get one...
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    when do chickens/roosters start mating?

    Thanks again for all the great responses. I really love that rooster - he is so beautiful and hearring him crow every morning makes me smile. Im looking forward to hatching a couple eggs but will wait until spring. Do roosters ever try to harm the new chicks?
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    when do chickens/roosters start mating?

    Thank you for the quick responses I didn't know they could be eaten, emmotionally it just seems wrong, but intellectually it does make sense if they are collected daily and don't get a chance to start developing. I bought them mainly as "pets with bennifits". They are easter-eggers and I was...
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    when do chickens/roosters start mating?

    I bought 4 6wk old hens that are now 12 weeks. one has started crowing and chasing the others, it looks like a rooster. he's beautiful and I want to keep him, but I also want to have edible eggs. Can anyone tell me what age they start being fertile, is it okay to let them have one batch of...
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