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We just got new chicks to add to our flock and noticed that one may have pasty butt. I took a Q-tip and warm water and tried to clean it. It looks like the vent is clean, but I cannot get the dried feces off of her . After cleaning her with a Q-Tip, I rubbed some olive oil on it to try...
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Katoranger, yes, both the tractor and the hardware cloth have held up very well, although we recently replaced it with a hen house and yard.
Hello and Welcome to TNDadx4's Lessons Learned Chicken Page!
We are new to raising chickens as we were just given 6 Araucana (Easter Egg) chickens. It is a personal goal of mine to try to live as self-sufficient and as simply as possible. I hope by sharing some information that others will...
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We are very new to raising chickens, but have been inspired by a lot of the people and coop designs on here. I wanted to post it here for thoughts and hopefully to give other inspiration that if we can do it, than anyone can.
Our tractor is on the lower half of this page...
Hello! I just wanted to give you all a quick update. We received our chickens Wednesday night. We got home around 10 PM with our 6 Araucanas and placed them in the hen house. Thursday morning, we literally woke up with the chickens. OK, they were up when we went outside at 5:30 but were pretty...
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@bibliophile - Thanks for the links. I will check them out. I'm in Middle TN just West of M'boro.
Hello! I'm TNDadx4 from Tennessee. We (my wife, myself and our 4 children are fairly new to chickens, but I have had a few chicks to take care of when I was a boy. We are in the process of building a chicken tractor because we will be inheriting 6 Araucanas hopefully this week. We are also in...