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The tiny sparks of limitless joy

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This could be so much better if you would have someone run a grammar/spell check for you.

All About Chicken Roosts

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Very informative, but I agree; this article needs photos.

The Best Duck Breeds For Egg Production

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Very informative!

hollywood-henhouse

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Nice but would be better if we could see inside of it and if you told us a little bit about how to build it.

Flystrike (What it is, causes, prevention, treatment, and my journey)

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Comprehensive article about a totally gross topic. This is a great resource to help others with flystrike issues.

Gold vs. Silver Welsh Harlequin ducks!

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Very helpful for duck owners.

Chicken Coop Essentials

BYC Project Manager
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This is great. The best thing I liked are the links to the other forums to find more of each particular item and the further reading should the reader want to research further.

There's a typo in this line though: "There is no need for a run at all if your birds can't free-range, but it's a good idea if they can't."
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This is great for someone new to quail. In fact, if I ever get into it, I'll be coming back.

Sometime when you get time though, if you could replace the blurrier pictures it would just look much nicer.

Bumble Foot Treatment

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Tag me, and I'll come back and rerate this, but you need to do some work first.

First, make some paragraphs and add pictures to show what you're doing. Also, there are different levels of bumblefoot, such as minor where perhaps a drawing cream like PRID would be in order, to the state where cutting it out is necessary. I would show pictures of both minor and major.

Aftercare is also important and a good way to close the article.
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I’m a retired poultry microbiologist formerly ARS, USDA; I don’t usually post formal scientific articles here, just trying to use lay-persons terms. A few of my heavier hens had bumble foot years ago thus no pix. I wasn’t thinking about taking pics while I was treating them. I’m sorry. I’ve not had any incidents since I moved my flock to higher ground with less moisture. I tried to explain after care by mentioning maintenance of keeping foot and habitat clean, etc. I agree it’s best to be less invasive while treating which is why I said not to cut too deep or cause stress to your bird(s).
Be careful about which ointments you apply because they most likely will be ingested by birds being treated or other flock members picking at fallen bandages. I recommend non toxic tea tree oil as additional antiseptic or Manuka honey as wound ointment while treating/healing. My avian vet agreed with both those options. Thanks for your input.

The Coop 15

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This would be useful to have but to make one we need measurements of it and perhaps a starting blueprint or plans.

Coop Page 2

whatnow?
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This needs so much more to help make it useful to others who want to build something like yours. I love the pictures but we need to see the inside too.

Fowl Penitentiary, the process of a coop on a budget

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I loved reading this. So many great ideas and resolutions to issues, some foreseen and some not. I love the maze made with lawn chairs as an idea for clutter for an otherwise boring run too. Wonderful pictures!

Building a Run Addition to the Sentinel Coop from TSC

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Very useful article as even though we caution people against buying prefabs, this particular coop isn't bad and many want to add runs to them. Great pictures and explanation!
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Facts for beginners and curiosity

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This is quite interesting but wish there were some more "facts" as there must be a lot more.

Pretty chickens!
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lol these were my very old posts I have forgotten about them anyways my chickens are healthy some have passed that are in the photo

Cicadas: Can Your Chickens Eat Them?

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I think we get a different variation of them here in the North. This was a very interesting read and educational.

Peroxide Peeps -- An Experiment

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Great article. Good to know.

I wrote a similar one about a different product so we both proved dunking eggs doesn't kill them. :)

Your links are broken though. Please fix them if you can so we can see. Tag me and I'll change my rating. Thank you!

Reproductive Health in Chickens

Lillith37
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Excellent article! Thorough and well explained.
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Thank you :)

Shipping Birds through USPS (Work In Progress)

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I have turned down requests to ship live chicks/chickens as I'm too afraid of it. After reading your article, I'd actually try it. The Apple AirTags is an ingenious idea for tracking! Excellent explanations and pictures!
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Thank you so much!

Mil Coop

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I agree with the other commenters that this needs some explanations and photos of the interior. Your pictures are great, but it's not helping any of us backyard carpenters know what we'd need to build this, or how to do it.
A very thorough explanation of how to build a coop from the dirt on up!
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