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I'm getting my chicken on! Again. After a 7 year moving-all-over hiatus. I was just about to start rebuilding the same coop design I had before but I'm realizing I need to deal with the climate differences in the new location. I live in the high mountain desert of New Mexico. Now I know...

Funny you ended up w similar combo to what I did. I ordered the Austalorpes but when I went to feed store, owner aplogized that her brother had put their shipment of Austrolorpes in with their shipment of Barred Rocks and the chicks are hard to tell apart. I told her I didn't care n just took...

Thanks everyone. It is indeed the inverted mason jar thing. Not leaking so they most likely did slosh themselves. Brilliant, the onion bag rig. I'm going to try that. Silly girls nearly gave me heart failure!

We just picked up 7 Austrolorpe and Barred Rocks, set them up in a large plastic tub with the mini feeder n water-er I've used in the past. Half an hour later I peek in and find drenched babies! I don't know how they did it! Water-er still upright. I thought I was going to lose them all! My son...

*sigh* makes sense now. I have in-floor radiant heat. We had hard freeze before each loss, so the floor heated up. I feel horrible.

*sigh* makes sense now. I have in-floor radiant heat. We had hard freeze before each loss, so the floor heated up. I feel horrible.

Hello everyone. I just re-joined BYC and re-introduced myself but real quick, I'm a 2nd timer with back yard chickens. I had them before in Vermont and now that I'm back home in New Mexico I finally am getting my chickens back. Or I thought I was. Three weeks ago I got 6 RIR chicks from the...

Hello and thanks for welcoming be back into the fold. I raised back yard chickens several years ago while I was living in rural western Vermont. Now I'm back to my home state of New Mexico, and finally I've gotten back to re-creating my flock, as I had missed my chickens terribly for over 6...