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    Fox and Dog Defense With Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

    Both chickens as well as just passing birds. Don’t want to hurt any bird just the bloody fox
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    Fox and Dog Defense With Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

    This sounds really cool! Details? How do you ensure it doesn’t hurt collaterals like innocent birds? Thanks
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    ideas for a “green” run

    Sadly I’m a humble backyard chicken keeper, very few sqms to play with! But I have toyed with th idea of pots or any container really that I drop in for a few days then take out… not very practical but it’s a solution. Maybe I could do a pulley based system where I lower a whole row of plants...
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    Chicken lays soft shell eggs and they eat it together

    This is .. not really helpful. I could tell you to take a bath in toothpaste or paracetamol and see what happens - eg im sure it would have ill effects, but it proves nothing because you just went way above recommend doses and even applied the dose differently eg directly to the egg instead of...
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    ideas for a “green” run

    Hi all, Seeking ideas from everyone around designing runs with greenery in a way that the chickens can’t destroy it all - hard I know! For instance by surrounding a plant with heavy rocks I’ve been able to have such plants survive even if the leaves are picked on occasionally, the roots are...
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    Autopoop.. designing for easy poop cleaning

    Hmmmm… it’s ok if you don’t have a solution. We’re all here to learn from each other constructively. In that other amazing thread I asked for more photos which the author provided, and I continue to think it is possible to design well...
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    Chicken coop poop tube

    This is stunning. Congratulations!
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    Chicken coop poop tube

    Amazing! can you show another pic of the inside to include the entrance? Or wherever they actually set onto the roost. All I could see was the wide mesh and I wondered, do they walk on that? It would be tricky no? In other words how do they go from entrance to roost. Thanks!
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    Autopoop.. designing for easy poop cleaning

    Amazing thanks for sharing :) anyone else??? Don’t be shy.. really curious to see how people solve this. Thanks!
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    Autopoop.. designing for easy poop cleaning

    Greetings all, I was curious to see if any of you had achieved a coop design that made cleaning after poop particularly easy. I know a board poop works for many but I’m looking for a design that solves it a bit further. I was hoping to see designs where at least some of the poop falls...
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    Chicken lays soft shell eggs and they eat it together

    Closing the loop on this one I found this post valuable. Echoes your overwhelming input that it shouldn’t be used all the time but does provide actual data on the benefits https://www.raising-happy-chickens.com/apple-cider-vinegar-benefits-for-chickens.html
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    Chicken lays soft shell eggs and they eat it together

    Well I’m just baffled, if it’s a myth, why is it promoted on so many articles. Including on this site: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/apple-cider-vinegar-and-garlic-two-of-the-best-and-natural-ways-to-keep-your-flock-healthy.67126/ I don’t care either way - I’m just surprised! I’m no...
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    Chicken lays soft shell eggs and they eat it together

    I also have the larger grit which I thought is only useful to the chicken as a digestive assistant?
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    Chicken lays soft shell eggs and they eat it together

    Thank you - I only have them two and the other chook lays beautifully with no issues, so culling is a very last resort
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    Chicken lays soft shell eggs and they eat it together

    Thank you for chiming in, The feed is barastoc champion layer The supplement just your usual liquor calcium plus vit d supplement The fine grit is similar to this...
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    Chicken lays soft shell eggs and they eat it together

    Thanks I have changed that now and will give my raw apple cider vinegar separately
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    Chicken lays soft shell eggs and they eat it together

    Thank you I will investigate
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    Chicken lays soft shell eggs and they eat it together

    I have fine grit freely available. The other chicken does fine.
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    Chicken lays soft shell eggs and they eat it together

    I have a white leg horn x (barter white) that use to lay good shell eggs. But for the past 9 months or so the norm has become soft shell eggs. Today I saw her purposefully lay the egg white while balancing herself on a rock feature i have in the run, so that the egg would break on lay and she...
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    Lash egg / salpingitis diagnosed - what next?

    Sorry for your loss.. Mine is about 2.5 years old. Still alive today she managed exit the coop house barely into the run but same miserable self, not a lot of movement other than twitching.
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