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    How much land to avoid bare ground

    I don’t have the answer to that but 10 chickens on two acres in NW Ark might do it if you can provide sand beds for dust bathing and convince them to use them only for it.
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    How much land to avoid bare ground

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    Store bought egg experiment

    You may have a very small hatch rate because of the refrigeration these eggs have undergone prior to appearing on the grocers shelves.
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    Store bought egg experiment

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    How to keep rooster from injuring hens during mating?

    Catch the rooster. Wrap in towel. Take a Dremel type tool with sanding drum tip or a deburring tip and grind down to bluntness the rooster's spurs. Much less damaging to hens and or people and other roosters.
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    Brooding In Plasitc Sterilite Tubs

    Our experience with plastic is that it "off gasses" toxic fumes to baby chick lungs and maybe more so with heat source and raised temps. Use a wire cage or cardboard.
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    Brooding In Plasitc Sterilite Tubs

    Our experience with the plastic tubs is that they "off gas" some type of volatile chemical that is toxic to the lungs of baby chicks. We went back to cardboard boxes if couldn't provide wire ventilated cages.
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    Webbed foot in chickens

    Is it necessary to correct webbed foot in chickens? If so...how?
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    Official BYC Poll: How do you name your pet chickens?

    Usually a letter to suggest the breed: A barred Rock would start with a B. An Ameracauna would start with an A.
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    Review by 'Beeottfirst' in article 'Reasons for Tossing Out Your Indoor Brooder and Start Raising Your Chicks Outdoors'

    Best idea I have read in a long time!
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    Can raccoons open quick links?

    What is that called and how does it work?
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    Can raccoons open quick links?

    I use Snap clips in latches for all doors except the chicken entrance to the run from free range( automatic door) and the chicken door into the coop( a drop door on a string that I can operate from outside the run and coop). I love Snap clips and use them for gate cable/chains: to hold temporary...
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    Made my own Coop, respectful critiques welcome!

    Strange, I don't see any problem with your carpentry skills. Nice coop/nice job.
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    coop vent question....how to add but not let rain in?

    My coop has more roof extension than the one pictured but I used a hole drill and drilled out holes in a line as near to the top along the wall as I could. I covered it with hardware cloth and got aluminum soft vent covers and screwed them on the outside with louvers pointed down. Best done on...
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    Help! My wife is mad at me for feeding the chickens pizza!

    My friends! The chickens got a special NewYears daytreat. A one off of all the pizza they want isn't going to do those chickens in! Yes it might give them diarrhea for a day. I vote it is okay as an occasional treat, it would have been better to have divided that much up and served two days. But...
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    Dog attacked my Wyandotte

    Clean the wound as best you can. Use a spray like Vetricyn on it. Place chicken in an enclosure where it us warm and dark for it to rest. Give water with electrolytes. Chickens can suffer shock the first 24 hrs or so. If wound is in a flexing place try to use vet wrap to keep wound edges...
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    Would a rooster remember a certain person who was aggressive?

    Don't test the workman...don't test the rooster....separate the rooster where there is no access to the workman. Even if you have explained. DON'T test it. It is for a limited time.
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    Sick chicken-HELP!

    From the look of her feet in the pictures they look quite inflamed...if so the infection may be affecting her body as in septicemia. A stiff round of antibiotic may be required to get it under control then soaking feet in Epson salt solution and cleaning with a SOFT brush and using antibiotic...
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    Unexpected hatching - help!

    I have read every post and enjoyed all the comments and following development. Thanks for starting such an interesting thread.
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    How many chickens would you need to keep to supply all the meat and eggs your family eats?

    Besides how many of us could eat chicken day one-day out every day of the year? Once or twice a week is sufficient to fill my desire for chicken meat. As a child down on the farm we raised fryers by the dozens to dress out and put in the freezer for the years supply of chicken but we ate beef...
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