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    Do I need To HIDE the apron?

    Thank you!
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    Do I need To HIDE the apron?

    I couldnt find a thread on this. I really want to put our chickens in their coop tonight or in the morning. The 4ft predator apron overlaps on all four corners and is pvc coated 1/2" hardware cloth. Do we need to put some soil or mulch over it? I assume we need to stake it down with landscape...
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    Help Me Predator Proof!

    As for more permanent ventilation, we are going to add some permanent 4" circle vents on all four sides at the top...like at least 8.
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    Help Me Predator Proof!

    My husband had this amazing coop built for me for our 21st anniversary :) We are just waiting on temps to go down a tad before adding our 4 silkies. Its a 6x14. I have raised them from chicks and LOVE them. They love me too. I wouldnt be able to accept one of them getting killed by a predator...
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    Are they ready to go outside? Silked Easter Eggers!

    So my babies will be 7 weeks old on Monday. We are in NC and its hot as hades outside at night. So I dont think they are gonna be hot. I 'm a first time chicken mama. They are currently sleeping beside the brooder and not under it and even roosting on their perch I gave them. Do they look /sound...
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    HELP! Chicks prefer Wyze Cam as a Brooder Instead of K&H Brooder

    my husband just reminded me that I did speak to the chicks through the camera when we were away the other day. Maybe this is why? Associating my voice with the camera? I "baby" talk to my new chicks :) It does seem to mark when they began this behavior.
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    HELP! Chicks prefer Wyze Cam as a Brooder Instead of K&H Brooder

    Well I took the Wyze cam out of the enclosure and placed it outside the door so I could still kinda see in there if I started to worry. Those little stinkers first went under the brooder plate but then abandoned it for snuggling up to the door as close as they could get to the Wyze camera lol...
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    HELP! Chicks prefer Wyze Cam as a Brooder Instead of K&H Brooder

    Oh I thought I would include a pic of what they have been doing most of this first week at bedtime... note the timestamps on the pictures.
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    HELP! Chicks prefer Wyze Cam as a Brooder Instead of K&H Brooder

    My chicks are 1 week old today. Last night I caught them sleeping around my WYZE cam which I have in the brooder. It doesnt get very warm ( I can hold it in my hand without it burning me), but they all pile on top of it or around it. I took this, of course, as a sign to raise the brooder which...
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    Question about Pasty butt: Vaseline Causing chicks to dig at butts

    I am going to turn the heating pad off and see if that helps. I would rather see them snuggled up under there, but they are usually all sprawled out
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    Question about Pasty butt: Vaseline Causing chicks to dig at butts

    Thank you. I have been checking twice a day so I can make sure I catch it since this is very common with shipped chicks, which I have. One chick has had a little residual poop around her vent each day but I have just watched it closely and not acted. Today it was more visible and so I took...
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    Question about Pasty butt: Vaseline Causing chicks to dig at butts

    Can I use a warm wet cottonball to remove the vaseline? Or will I now have to use soap to get it off?
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    Question about Pasty butt: Vaseline Causing chicks to dig at butts

    No one really had pasty butt but one was starting to get a build up which made me over-react likely. As I applied the vaseline, it actually made the poop slide off the vent that had accumulated there. She is a very active girl and actually wore herself out afterwards preening her vent. I felt so...
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    Question about Pasty butt: Vaseline Causing chicks to dig at butts

    Brand new to chickens here. I cleaned my 4 day old baby chicks' butts and put a small dab of vaseline on their vent as prevention as recommended by others. But now everyone is really "digging" at their vents and seem uncomfortable :( Should I wash it off of them? I dont want them to be miserable...
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    Please Help: Coop Design Considerations For Silked Easter Eggers

    I dont think we can afford that :( We splurged onthe additional run space. The run WILL be covered.
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    Please Help: Coop Design Considerations For Silked Easter Eggers

    I found a local who is building us a Chicken Coop. I have never owned chickens but have been nerding out on everything I can get my hands on. The coop will be started in about 2 weeks and so I have time to request a change if its needed. I will post pictures below. The breed I have chosen are...
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    MPC's silked Easter eggers - who has them?

    I just ordered 4 females from MPC at $66 a piece :) And I'm happy to pay it. I believe they were priced so high because I wanted sexed girls. A silkie with the hopes of laying a blue egg? YESSSSS! These will be my first chickens ever. Coop being built now. I'm super eggcited hehe. I read the...
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