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    Hoop height calculator?

    I know I saw a calculator or maybe a infographic on how tall/short a hoop coop could be made depending on how wide you make the base. I'm drawing blanks trying to search the forums for it tho. Anyone got it bookmarked?
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    Mites or a feather eater?

    I have 7 hens, no roo. Two of the hens have very raggedy or bare patches around the base of their tail. One or two others seem like they are starting to head that way with the tips of their feathers around their tail looking broken off. I don’t see mites on them or the egg cases on their...
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    Vent Gleet

    My salmon faverolles has had a messy butt the last couple weeks. She’s just come into lay and this seems to coincide. She’s also the lowest on the pecking order and very much easily stressed. I originally just thought it was stress and coming into lay. So three days ago I gave her a butt bath...
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    White Speckled Brown Egg

    This is my black sex link pullet's first egg. I understand the white speckles are just the way the bloom has been deposited. My question is, will she likely continue to lay eggs with the bloom speckled like that? I think it's pretty and hope she continues to lay eggs like that, that...
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    Aging of chicken poop question

    I have two new raised beds I’m putting in next to my garden. One was finished being built in the fall and I filled the bottom with all the spent plants I cleared out of my garden, some wood chips, two 5 gallon buckets of chicken poop that I’d scooped from my poop boards then topped with the soil...
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    Humidity and frostbite

    I posted this at the tag end of an old topic, but wanted to bring this back up as we have another cold snap coming. How to mitigate frost bite with out adding heat? I have temp/humidity sensors inside the run (which is roofed and blocked from prevailing winds by the coop/shed but with no other...
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    Discouraging hanging out on poop board?

    My newest batch of pullets seem to enjoy hanging out on the poop board during the day. They trample the nice neat piles of easily scoopable poop piles into little shreds that require me to sift the entire amount of PDZ on the board to clean it. Plus it can’t be good for their feet, and they...
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    Bear!!!

    Thank god I got the chooks out of the temp pen and into a real coop. I never in a million years would have thought we would see a bear here. Luckily he just walked on thru and didn't try to break into the coop in the background.
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    Meyer Hatchery Olive Egger

    I was curious if anyone could guess what breeds may have gone into this hen just for my own info. Hatched May 2023 by Meyer Hatchery. She’s solid black with no leakage anywhere. Some teeny tiny tufts of feathers between her toes on her feet that can barely be called feathers. Lays a lightly...
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    Integrated….but not?

    I have four adult hens, all just over one year old and laying. I also have 5 pullets around 12-13 weeks old currently. Coop is 6x8 and run is 8x12. No free ranging possible due to predator load and proximity of my neighbor’s vegetable garden. The pullets were brooded in a cage on the coop...
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    Poop boards and PDZ/sand

    I don't think I've seen this question asked/answered in my roaming of the forums. Those with poop boards with PDZ and/or sand, does anyone strip the old PDZ/sand at some point and replace with new/fresh material? I notice as I'm scooping poop there are small particles of poop that fall thru...
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    Salmon Faverolle gender?

    This chick was hatched May 20th, Meyer hatchery chick if that matters. Her wing feathers are pretty dark and she has zero tail, but her chest feathers look to be coming in cream so I have some hope she is a pullet! And some day she'll have a tail. Maybe? Opinions?
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    Salmon Favorelles slow to grow tail feathers?

    Chick was hatched May 20th. She’s feathering in nicely, but has no tail!
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    Translucent Feeder?

    Is there any reason not to use a translucent bucket to hold food? I’m about to drill holes in this one to install feeding ports and hang it in the run. It would be nice to be able to easily see when it needs to be refilled.
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    Open mouth breathing/panting

    My olive egger has a case of bumblefoot so I’m beginning treatment by soaking in a warm Epsom salt bath. The water is not hot, I’d say comfortably warm to my skin. She stood for a few minutes then sank down and I thought oh she’s enjoying it. Shortly after she stretched her head up and...
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    Light brown leghorn or cream legbar?

    I had a shipment of chicks from Meyer Hatchery that included a light brown leghorn and a cream legbar. One survived the trip, one didn't. Trying to figure out which the survivor is. The hatchery says cream legbar. Both just look like brown chipmunks to me. The chick that passed had more tan...
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    Mixing 1 day olds with 2 week olds

    Because some of the chicks I ordered from a 5/20 hatch arrived DOA, the hatchery is shipping me replacements on 6/3. There will be 2 from the 5/20 hatch and 4 from the 6/3 hatch. Can I still raise all the chicks in the same brooder?
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    Shipping chicks this time of year?

    Is it normal for hatcheries to include a heat pack when shipping chicks this time of year? I ordered from this same hatchery this exact same time last year and dont remember a heat pack in that box. Just trying to understand how 4 of 6 chicks could be DOA when the hatchery is one state away...
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    Sanitize/Bleach bowls and waterers?

    A year ago I got my first round of baby chicks. All more or less healthy and raised with out issue. Once feathered and outside, I cleaned their baby feeders and waterers with soap and water and packed them away. Next round of chicks is due next week, from the same hatchery. Do I need to...
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    Black Sumatra Broody....

    Do black sumatras generally make good mothers? I would expect from mine’s personality she might not. Her name is Betty but I always end up calling her Karen. She seems inclined to go broody these last couple days. And I have a seven chick order from a hatchery due to hatch May 20th. I'm...
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