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    4 week old outside with their mom, to heat or not to heat

    Thanks to everyone for their input. No heat then, just my improvised cookie tin water heater to keep the water from freezing.
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    4 week old outside with their mom, to heat or not to heat

    We are expecting temp to not go out of the 30's with lows in the teens. They are in a small rabbit hutch shelter. I was thinking a 75 watt ceramic heat bulb or a 75 watt infrared spot bulb. Or just let mom do her thing
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    Heat or not?

    My broodie hen hatched 3 of 4 eggs 10 days ago in her own little hutch. I live in southwestern Pa no heat except for mom. It was in the low 40 degrees this morning and they were out in the open part of the hutch scratching and eating with mom. They didn't seem affected at all by the temp.
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    Sick Bird

    Well we came home from taking my kid out for his birthday, while we were out eating. she passed. She drank nicely before we left, I still had to hold the bowl for her. It was a hot day here and I had her in her cage in the shade. so I don't know if it was the sudden heat, that I might have done...
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    Sick Bird

    She's just not interested in eating, a couple of pecks and that's it of eggs mashed with vitamin water. So I did tube feed her this morning, with some applesauce and vitamin water. So far no better no worse. Now that I have done it once I will try the eggs and vitamin water tonight. How often...
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    Sick Bird

    that lump keeps me thinking that her crop is impacted so i try to massage it out, but there is really nothing there to massage. How would i go about tube feeding her? I have tried to feed her mashed eggs with vitamin water, she will take some but not much before she stops.
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    Sick Bird

    Ok folks my hen hasn't eaten for 8-12 days. will only drink when you hold her and tip the bowl for her. She is pooping watery green, not much or often. I have given her Tylan 50 for a couple of days, chicken vitamins in her water. She can stand on her own, her neck looks all scrunched down...
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    lost the last of my original Cochins today

    So I set a leg trap yesterday, using what was left of my bird hanging above it for bait. This morning leg trap closed, no animal in it, no bait.
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    lost the last of my original Cochins today

    My girls free range so it's to be expected, but whatever got this one was bold. took it right out in the front yard, at noon. killed it about 20 yards away in the bushes, ate the head, neck, and one wing left the rest. Any ideas? The wife says she thought she say a small fox this moring about...
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    built a chicken tractor, now i need some help on how to pull it.

    Check out this post, my design was based off this. It looks like you could put his design of handle on yours easily. It is a very sturdy handle. I can pull it around the yard short distances myself, or put it over the seat of my riding tractor to pull it distances...
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    Clear Corrugated Panels

    I have a 10x8 green house built with clear panels, it gets brutal in the summer, in western PA.
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    AAarghhhh! Can't decide on coop plan - please help me decide!

    Go to my home page to look at mine. I got the plans from another member whose site I link to on my page. Check it out. Good luck, there are so many good designs out there.
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    My Ladies Helping me turn the garden. I built their A frame tractor for about $180 in lumber and hardware, with only a little scrap wood. Most of the wood was new. it was a design from Im4Eggcellence with a little modification. I got the Ladies when they were just under a year. This was my...
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    Talk to me about fencing

    I have a three strand electric fence around mine. I got all the supplies at TSC for, I guess around 50 60 dollars. Fiberglass step in poles, a $25 fence charger, and poly cord. I let them free range all day they scoot under the fence their back touches it but they don't seem to mind, but they...
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Pumpkins!
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    Lost one

    While away on a scout weekend I left my 9 year old in chardge of putting them up. He must have missed one, cause under the coop all that was left was apile of feathers. I lost one of my Cochins to something, I couldn't have just two. So I got a penciled wyandotte a little under a year and a java...
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    Any plans or a chicken coop for 3 chickens?

    I built my A frame from a design on BYC. check my page and the link to plans. Two things I would change or add venilation in the ends, will be doing that soon. Bigger tires, its hard to roll on uneven ground.
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    Please help.... Need plans for an A-Frame Coop

    i used this one, i have minimal skills and adapted it too 2x2's instead of ripped 2x4's. https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=27127-a-classy-a-frame-tractor
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    light in the coop

    Quote: i do leave it open until i come home from work around 8:30pm. i need to make sure they are up in the tractor though, to keep them from getting caught by raccoons. it does have a good roost they are usually on it when i come home to close it up. and they were kept in it for the first...
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    light in the coop

    hi everyone! i'm completely new to chickens. i finished my tractor 2 weeks ago and got 3 one year old black cochins the sunday before last. they have adjusted to their new surroundings and i have 7 eggs to show for it! my wife calculates that thats about $ 50 per egg, but it's alot less, but...
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