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  1. cricket1975

    Egg shell is wrinkled looking?

    I'm computer challenged, I uploaded, but don't know how to put pic on a post?
  2. cricket1975

    Egg shell is wrinkled looking?

    Every so often, my girls lay a wrinkled looking egg. Is this normal?
  3. cricket1975

    nesting box how many?

    I have 3 nesting boxes for my 7 hens. I don't have eggs yet, but I've read that the hens will share nesting boxes.
  4. cricket1975

    Should hens sleep in nesting boxes?

    I have 3 leghorn and 4 rhode island red hens. They are 16 weeks old. They've been sleeping in their nesting box for quite some time. I read somewhere I should block the nesting box off? Not sure what to do?
  5. cricket1975

    Dog killed my chickens, I killed the dog

    The same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. A neighborhood dog clawed through 2 layers of fencing to get to my chicks and killed 6 of the 7. He ran off before we could catch him. The next day the dog went to a neighbors and killed one of theirs. She called the sheriff and he came out and shot...
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    Freaked out! Coop too big?

    It's between 75 and 80 degrees, so I don't think too hot and it's more like a house, it's actually our chicken run that we will put outside, so it has a roof and wire around. I put cardboard all the way around it, so they'd feel more enclosed. I'm using the same feeders that I had in the tub...
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    Freaked out! Coop too big?

    I just put our chickens in the garage...in a 4x4 coop, nice and warm with the heat lamp since they were getting too big for inside, but it's still too cold for outside yet. I put their food and water on one side of the coop and I've yet to see them eat or drink. Is this normal? They just stay in...
  8. cricket1975

    New chicks with 11 day old chicks?

    Is it ok to put new chicks with 11 day old chicks?
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