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    Does anyone move chickens to tractors during day, back to coop at night?

    Great information! I was thinking of hanging up our nesting boxes & bins and pulling up anchors on our 10'x10' hoop coop and dragging it around our little acre. The flock would still be out to free range daily within the 5-6' fences. Maybe drag it weekly if not daily. It would mean not having...
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    Does anyone move chickens to tractors during day, back to coop at night?

    Are you considering rolling your own meat birds? Totally agree! Good reminder. Time for me to invest in mulberry trees, great for fodder too!
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    Chicken laying egg with no shell

    I just saw today that one of the symptoms of bird flu is eggs without a shell. https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/animal-health-and-welfare/animal-health/avian-influenza/avian-influenza-companion-animals Maybe not exclusively a symptom of bird flu, because we got one softshell egg while a...
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    Topic of the Week - Insulating the Coop

    So glad to see this! I made the mistake of lining the roof (or top third) of our hoop coop with moving blankets. The mice have made nests there in addition to underground & in the straw bedding. Actually, Our chickens have had no trouble cuddling against the cold in the past, just struggle to...
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    Topic of the Week - How much space for your flock?

    Right now we have 13 hens & 1 roo (survivors of a horrible stray dog attack last summer). They sleep in a 10' x 10' hoop coop with 3 roosting boards (two high, one mid). We let them out at dawn in our now fully 5'-6' fenced yard, and we lock them in at night. Our own dogs & cats are friendly...
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    Review by 'Sh1nyH4ppy' in article 'How Much Room Do Chickens Need?'

    This is a great explanation. I especially liked "if you have 2 with 4 square feet apiece, they take up 2 square feet & have 8 square feet to explore" and higher iterations. Bookmarking!
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    Review by 'Sh1nyH4ppy' in article 'A Backyard Chicken Enthusiast's Formulary (Avian Drugs and Dosages)'

    This is a great resource! Bookmarking. And since you listed amoxicillin with clavulanic acid, spelled out, I finally looked up more about that antibiotic variety that gave me hives: (aka amox clav, aka augmentin). I wonder how we might tell if chickens get hives. Anyone?
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    Review by 'Sh1nyH4ppy' in article 'Oxytocin as a bonding agent between us and our chickens'

    Thank you so much for sharing! My daughter's science fair project last year was how to make chickens friendly. This would have been great information! Maybe some student, some A&M, will pick this up for study.
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    Reunite Incubator-hatched chicks & broody mama hen raising chick?

    Other hens also showing how to scratch. Roo seems protective from s few feet away. Two days, so far so good! And we have 3 more eggs hatching in the brooder!
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    Reunite Incubator-hatched chicks & broody mama hen raising chick?

    Hatchling is dry & fluffy so I reunited her with mama Spade & sister. Spade gave her a gentle peck or two to guide her and the bigger sister is showing her how to chow down. We're watching closely. They're exploring the coop, and visitors have again been curious and gentle. Any blood and the...
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    Reunite Incubator-hatched chicks & broody mama hen raising chick?

    Thanks NatJ, all great advice!
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    We're in a windy North Texas zone 8a. We've added pairs of pecan, apricot & honey crisp apple trees to our container garden of meyer lemons, satsuma mandarins, figs, blueberries & blackberries. We planted seed potatoes in straw (Ruth Stout method), and then onion sets and broccoli in grow...
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    Review by 'Sh1nyH4ppy' in article 'How To Tame Chickens from the Start'

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    Comment by 'Sh1nyH4ppy' in article 'How To Tame Chickens from the Start'

    Thank you for this article! My daughter just did her Science Fair experiment on making chicks friendlier, but she started too late, they were already integrated with the greater flock. Interesting how much bteed can make the difference, and was not a variable we were able to control in this...
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    Reunite Incubator-hatched chicks & broody mama hen raising chick?

    On Wednesday our broody Black Orpington hen (Spade) hatched a chick (Stormy), the first of ours to hatch naturally from her brooder mate rooster (Motley). All told, we have a barnyard mix of 21 including 3 roos. Spade & Stormy abandoned the nesting box. We found a chick that didn't make it out...
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    prayer warriors (following Jesus Christ, everyone welcome)

    Bless you prayer warriors! Praying with you!
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    Hoop Greenhouse as a Coop?

    We were wondering if a 20' x 10' x 6'h hoop greenhouse might work for 24 layer chickens, as long as we hung roosts and nests and feeders/waterers. But we're presently in Tornado Alley, windy every day. We just assembled & dutifully anchored the greenhouse a day before a thunderstorm. Of...
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    Meet the Flock! (finally) part 2

    Another great story. :D
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    Meet the Flock! (finally) part 1

    Thank you for your story! We're in the process of getting ready to sell our suburbian house. We hope to find some acreage around North or Central Texas.
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    Should I leave Pokey's First Egg for sisters to see?

    Thank y'all! We now have our first dozen, wirh a little help from our Easter Egger laying some light sage eggs. Two more hens to start laying!
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