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ChickenCanoe said:
Welcome!
Do you consider Pacines wine and sheep country?
Your chickens should be able to hand any weather they encounter there without help.
I've had chickens live in trees here through rain, snow, wind and deep freezes.
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Where I am I consider Paicines bobcat and coyote country lol I live near the fire station off Panoche but up in the hills so I’m not even remotely close to civilization. It takes me 30 minutes just to get to the little store on hwy 25!

We have a little rain coming again in about an hour and I’ve just come inside from putting on yet another tarp to keep their area dry and out of the front of the coop. That poor coop/run is more hillbilly-looking than I had imagined it to be. I have tarps and bungees all over the place. That last storm was a doozy.
Thank you so much for the welcome and easing my fears :)
 
Birdsonghill said:
Throw in some diatomaceous earth with the ashes for twice the kick, put a little food grade Diatomaceous earth in their feed/grit /shell occasionally, when you suspect parasites
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I definitely use my wood ash but I’ve yet to buy DE. I try to screen my ashes because they are addicted to the charcoal. Black poops everywhere. 🤣

They have begun eating the finer bedding we recently got for them at a more local feed store (local bring 50 minutes away 🙄). As opposed to traveling to Gilroy to Tractor Supply Co. There is a smaller feed store in Tres Pinos that I may try next. I can’t imagine the bedding is that good for them. Btw I’m Now feeding them in medicated grower still for the protein but they have egg shell and oyster for the calcium. I do have a bag of layer but am holding off on that for now.
I have not begun giving them treats, only some hand picked wheat or oat grass that I cut up For them on occasion.
 
OffGridChook said:
Where I am I consider Paicines bobcat and coyote country lol I live near the fire station off Panoche but up in the hills so I’m not even remotely close to civilization. It takes me 30 minutes just to get to the little store on hwy 25!

We have a little rain coming again in about an hour and I’ve just come inside from putting on yet another tarp to keep their area dry and out of the front of the coop. That poor coop/run is more hillbilly-looking than I had imagined it to be. I have tarps and bungees all over the place. That last storm was a doozy.
Thank you so much for the welcome and easing my fears :)
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Sadly it won't be long before dry times come your way. Just hang in there.
I'm in civilization but still lose a lot of birds to coyotes - and most other predators but I've been fairly lucky the last 10 months. Bobcats, bears and mountain lions are no more than 20 or 30 miles away. Hopefully the civilization will keep them at bay.
 
ChickenCanoe said:
Sadly it won't be long before dry times come your way. Just hang in there.
I'm in civilization but still lose a lot of birds to coyotes - and most other predators but I've been fairly lucky the last 10 months. Bobcats, bears and mountain lions are no more than 20 or 30 miles away. Hopefully the civilization will keep them at bay.
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Yes, it will be too dry soon. Fire season. Last year was just terrible. I’m originally from New Orleans; I like rain overallI.

I saw two bobcats in the front of my house the other day. I just don’t trust the run to withstand predators at the moment. If I leave the house, I usually put them in their coop.

I’m rather afraid of bears. 😳

I see you are from SL. My family moved to Arkansas when I was in my teens; we used to go up to see the Cardinals play. :).
 

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