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    Infectious Disease

    I’ve never had any issues with my flock until now. Long story short, I thought I was taking back some chickens I had gave my brother (having completely forgot that back several months ago he had asked me what it meant when a chicken is coughing and sneezing). Well come to find out these two...
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    Need some Advice... I think?

    Seven weeks is about the earliest and you want flock introductions to be slow. Usually having them pens in the coop where they’re separated from the adults but the adults can still see them. I move my chicks to my coop at about 4 weeks, however, I have a room separated by wire that I keep them...
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    Worms!!! Please Help!!!

    DE doesn't work. I always suspected it didn't but when I almost bought the Wazine and decided to put it back because the label saying do not use in laying hens for eggs consumption ever. I went back and got the DE. I've used it off and on and thought I would give it a good try even though there...
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    Worms!!! Please Help!!!

    I hope someone can help me. I commented on a different thread about strange poo and nobody ever responded. :( Some of my chickens have been having strange poos. Weird orange brown color. Some tarry looking stools. Not cecal poos. I've had chickens for 5 years and never had this issue before. I...
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    Are Dogs Always Predators to Chickens?

    Yes dogs can learn that chickens are off limits. I have 7 shepherds. All 7 are good with supervision for the chickens. I also have sheep. Two of the dogs are near impossible to control around the sheep but still manageable. My chickens and sheep free range during the day, so I let the 5 out...
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    Black poop that looks like tar

    I'm having strange poop issues with my chickens. Never had issues before. Everything I've looked up seems like it's cecal poop but it seems to be too frequent to be cecal poop. I've had chickens for 5 years now and I've never had consistently dark tarry or puddling orange poos like I've been...
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    Designs for my New Chicken Coop!!!!!! **Pic Heavy!** **Very detailed plans**

    I'm wanting to set up a page like these https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/large-chicken-coop-designs-pictures-of-chicken-coops Here on the backyard chickens website.
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    Designs for my New Chicken Coop!!!!!! **Pic Heavy!** **Very detailed plans**

    Www.floorplanner.com you have one project for free with as many floors as you want. I actually created a house plan on this site last year and made my chicken coop as a new floor on my house. Lol. It's free forever, but you can only have one project saved to their site. But I'm wondering how...
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    Designs for my New Chicken Coop!!!!!! **Pic Heavy!** **Very detailed plans**

    Can anybody tell me how to make a page? I'm thinking about making a page of this coop, and putting actual pictures up of the process as it gets built. I put a lot of thought into this new coop and I'm sure others would benefit from it, with a permanent page made of it. Thanks in advance!
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    Designs for my New Chicken Coop!!!!!! **Pic Heavy!** **Very detailed plans**

    So after 3 years with my first chicken coop (which wasn’t what I had in mind, I might add), I’m finally in the process of building a new coop from scratch and it’s going to be everything I dreamed of and then some, not to mention after 3 years of having chickens I think I’ve managed to work out...
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    Wanted to share my facebook Chicken Album!!!

    I have so many pictures and the size is too large, so I'd have to resize each one, but if you have a facebook and want to each out my album here is the link!! Enjoy!!! *** Newest pictures are at the bottom of the page***...
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    Total devastation!!! I’m crushed…

    Not sure what drop shipping is. My box just says USPS Priority. I got a tracking number and everything.
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    Total devastation!!! I’m crushed…

    So I received my order from Meyer Hatchery today and out of 38 chicks, only one is holding on for dear life. My box was silent when I received it. I’m so crushed. I order from Meyer last year and lost ½ my order within 2 days, but my replacement order was successful. So I decided to give them...
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    How do you heat your coops

    No heat, no insulation. My walls actually have cracks in between every board. Here is a pic Last winter was mild, but I bought a tarp to cover the North and West wall. If ever we anticipate super cool/windy weather I'm prepared to put that up to block the wind. The way my coop is built...
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    Reluctant layers in new nest boxes...HELP!!!!!

    I changed them all at once. My previous nest boxes were built on the spot and to the wall. And though my new ones where built off location, they were built in a way to be permanently secured to the wall. Old nest boxes: New ones: I'm afraid if I put up some regular ones (like 2-3 on a...
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    Reluctant layers in new nest boxes...HELP!!!!!

    Anybody switch to rollout nest boxes having my issues or simliar?
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    Reluctant layers in new nest boxes...HELP!!!!!

    Replace what? The egg eaters? If my hens would lay in their new roll-out nest boxes I wouldn't even have to worry about the egg eaters, which I don't really now who they are out of the 69 chickens I have, or how many egg eaters I have. Not everybody is laying out of the nest boxes, I'm getting...
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    Reluctant layers in new nest boxes...HELP!!!!!

    Found eggs everywhere this morning! Found 2 in the run and one on the coop floor. They were all laying just fine before in the old nest boxes but I had to switch because of the egg eating problem.
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    Reluctant layers in new nest boxes...HELP!!!!!

    So I had to change my nest boxes to rollout style due to an egg eating problem that all of a sudden developed. Anyways, new nest boxes have been in about 2 weeks. I’m having problems with both seasoned layers and new layers not wanting to lay in the nest boxes. About 4 weeks ago, on a day that I...
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    I got 2 surprises tonight *pics*

    Found this in one of the descriptions I found: Although most specimens are discovered on the ground, Rat Snakes are good climbers. I once observed a specimen raiding a gray squirrel nest high in a tree in November after most leaves had fallen. Rodents, birds and bird eggs, and lizards are...
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