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    Comment by 'SoCal Chicken Mama' in article 'To Insulate or Not to Insulate...'

    Everyone on this forum has assured me that my four chickens will never get cold enough in Southern CA to need either insulation or a winter heat source, and for the most part I have heeded their advice. There was one exception in early December this year, where it rained night and day for 7 days...
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    Weasels in winter in SoCal

    Thanks. I've been reading older posts about weasel problems, and I don't understand the ones that say, "I buried the hardware cloth, but not deep enough." I assume they are talking about the skirt, but it doesn't go straight down, does it? I thought it attached to the wood at the bottom of the...
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    Weasels in winter in SoCal

    The past few nights as I went out to put my chickens to bed inside their coop house I saw a weird creature jumping around. It gets dark so dang early now (pitch black by 5:00 pm) that it is often past dark when I get out there. The girls are usually perched on a roost near a tree in the run. I...
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    These chicks have me stumped about bedtime

    I only have 4 and I'm in CA, they were born in July. I had them in my bathtub (a secondary one) because I couldn't fit the brooder in the door of the house. I had a brooder plate and it was very nice. I only put bedding in a keyboard box under the brooder, because it was easier to clean. But...
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    Molt question

    Thank you RosemaryThyme and Ridgerunner. This is a big relief. You're right, I've never seen a wild bird dead from cold. You guys know everything.
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    Molt question

    Oh, thank you so much, I didn't think of that. I won't dose her with calcium, but may try a higher protein feed while they are molting. That brings up another question: Can they keep themselves warm while molting? None of them have bare patches yet, but there is a ton of feathers everywhere...
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    Molt question

    So, it seems from looking randomly through some of these posts, that molting causes laying to be curtailed somewhat? My four, about 16 months old, are starting to have their first molt. I was surprised because I thought it would happen when it was warm, and now, October, we are just starting to...
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    Can hearing a rooster crowing make hens go broody? Even if it's on TV?

    Latest Buffy update: She's laying again! and everything is back to "normal". I decided it was time to do a deep "Annual Coop/Run Cleanup" since there were smells that didn't go away with routine cleaning. I removed ten 3 gallon buckets of loose material (old bedding and dirt, as well as the top...
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    Can hearing a rooster crowing make hens go broody? Even if it's on TV?

    Well, I think the broody drama is over. Thank you so much for all your help and advice. Every time I go out to look at Buffy (my Buff Orpington) (after 3 days in Broody Jail), she is out in the run walking around, enjoying her freedom. Everyone else had started laying normally again. I do catch...
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    Can hearing a rooster crowing make hens go broody? Even if it's on TV?

    Mother of Chaos and Rosemary and Thyme, Thanks for your advice, and everyone for your comments. I'll look for the parrot water cup. I keep a small fan running in the area where the nest boxes are all day, every day in hot weather, to get rid of the smells, and cool it off. When it's cold I just...
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    Can hearing a rooster crowing make hens go broody? Even if it's on TV?

    The Easter Egger has lost her beard because the Top of the Order Rhode Island Red doesn't think women should wear beards and pecks it off .
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    Can hearing a rooster crowing make hens go broody? Even if it's on TV?

    Well, she somehow did the same thing, spilled all the food and pooped in the water. I don't think she has used the water bottle, even though she can see there is ice in it. I know she eats in the morning, but I haven't seen her drink. It's about 102 degrees out there. She's panting and puffing...
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    Can hearing a rooster crowing make hens go broody? Even if it's on TV?

    Thanks. I bought the stuff and started using it yesterday afternoon. I forgot to add the mesh bottom and couldn't do it after the fact. It was up on 2x4s so her feet were down on the ground. So I gave up and put the plastic floor tray back in. I also added a 2x2 roost that goes the width of...
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    The Semi-Broody Broody: A Plea for Help

    Love the gargoyl, and comments!
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    Stubborn broody hen is shaking

    azygous...Did you put the mesh there, or did it come like that?
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    Another "broody hen" post... but hear me out!

    In our city chicks under 6 months old don't count in the limit. I wouldn't try that in my case because I might not be able to get rid of them when the time came, though you'd think people would be happy to get coop ready chicks. You also have to have more room for the momma and babies separate...
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    Can hearing a rooster crowing make hens go broody? Even if it's on TV?

    Oh yeah! Tom Selleck! and Sam. You can tell this is an older crowd.
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    Can hearing a rooster crowing make hens go broody? Even if it's on TV?

    Ha ha! George Clooney! Me too. You can keep the rest. Thank you all, you have really reassured me. I don't need to give up my "natural blood pressure remedy!" I't been several days (4 or 5) now, and she's still at it. I think the others are getting irritated with her, because her comb is...
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    Can hearing a rooster crowing make hens go broody? Even if it's on TV?

    Ok, I might have forced my virgin Buff Orpington into going broody. Is it possible that the sound of a rooster crowing on TV could cause my virgin (as in no sex or any experience with a rooster) to go Broody? I like to wake up very early before kids and pets can start making demands on me. I...
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    Comment by 'SoCal Chicken Mama' in article 'Broody Breaking ala aart'

    Ok, I might have forced my virgin Buff Orpington into going broody. Is it possible that the sound of a rooster crowing on TV could cause my virgin (as in no sex or any experience with a rooster) to go Broody? I like to wake up very early before kids and pets can start making demands on me. I...
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