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I've read a bunch of posts on temps for coops. We're in North Central Texas and weather swings are vicious on us, but I think the babies will be fine. But wanna be sure. It's dry out, we have sand right now and will be adding dry leaves as winter approaches. The hatched on March 1st and I...

In this EXTREMELY EXESSIVE North Central Texas heat that has been well over 110° every day for weeks, the fan that I set up to blow through the cooler with holes in it and frozen gel packs was only blowing cool for maybe 30 minutes because even the air and wind is hot!!! So I opened up...

So it's gotten up to 113° here in North Central Texas already and been over 100° for 5 weeks, with a little rain last night. But being born and raised here, I knew that rain storm was just gonna make it even hotter today! And it did! I have a fan and mister in the chicken run, at separate...

I have been trying to post an article that I wrote but can't get it right, so now it just looks all messed up. I've emailed the "contact" email to ask if they can just delete it all for me and I can try and start over, but to no avail. Someone out there must know something about this. Can...

I read a bunch of the threads about spiders in the coop and decided that I'm gonna use my homemade bug spray in there. I put lavender and peppermint oil in filtered water and sprayed the wood beams and joists with it. It's 100% natural and it's got decent airflow in there. But I'm wondering...

So we're new to this. We got day-old hatchlings on March 2nd of this year. We have 3 RIRs, one of which is our rooster and 6 BRs, all girls. They have 200 sq ft of what we call the big run and about another 25 sq ft in the little run. It's already hitting triple digits in North Central Texas...

My rooster is pooping thick, foamy whitish-yellowish stuff. So I have questions. 1. Is corrid going to fix that? 2. Been giving a small waterer with nutri-drench every day because one of the hens was laying eggs with super thin shells. So is that possibly causing it for the boy? 3. Could I...

My baby is all grown up. But I wasn't there to hear it because of stupid work. Lol

One of the two 18 month old girls was laying super thin shelled eggs. The last one of those broke just while my husband was picking it up but the yolk and white was fine. So I started researching like crazy. Common consensus was two fold: not enough calcium and not enough vitamin D. So I...

A few weeks ago, I had no idea what we were doing. Thanks to all of you guys' advice and tips, they're all together and behaving well! We built them uneven parallels and they like it! Thank you all! P.S.-we will still build the beach hut at some point and this will go into the other run space...

I've been reading through the other threads but not really seeing any definitive things. Some say put them together at night, some say let them all get close to the same size, etc. But for 3 days, we've had parallel runs and I tried to let the two, older, newest, female additions into the big...

We got the two new BRs yesterday after church and we figured it would be a day or two before they would lay an egg just because of the trauma of moving to a new place, but they laid eggs! Not in the nesting boxes. Lol. In the little coop, though.

I'm back!! Lol. My babies hatched on March 1st so they're a little over 10 weeks old now. I have one rooster and 6 hens. When should I start getting them off their starter crumbles and start incorporating layer food? And I'm assuming the layer feed is fine for my boy, too. Correct? Also...

I've been reading other posts about ticks. They just got bad out here at the lake all of a sudden. Like, the last few days! So will my chickens eat them or not? We have a lot of cedar trees (which ticks hate) but they're coming from the oaks. I use neem oil on our edible plants but I doubt...

Anybody got a good idea for my new coop's top roosting bar? They get up there okay, but I have to pick them up and put them on the ground every morning. I can see them trying to figure out how to navigate the descent. I want a ramp or something to assist them, instead of me doing it for them...

We want to build a rustic looking roost "hut" inside the run so the babies can climb and don't get bored. I have an idea or two, pretty rudimentary, but wanted to see what creative play areas y'all have before we start. Got any fun pics?

We bought 10 hatchlings on March 2, and we've lost 3 to various chick things. Now, we know one of them is a RIR rooster and my hen-to-rooster ratio is 6 to 1. I've read tons of stuff and seen various videos that say a good ratio is 7 to 10 hens to 1 rooster. So we need info on where to buy...

We got the Over EZ nipple waterer and it says to add some vinegar (with the mother) to it. It also claims to stay clean for weeks, but mine gets gross in about 5 days. I'm wasting water and vinegar because I have to dump and clean it every weekend and it's still mostly full. What am I doing...

Hi all! Yesterday I noticed that my month-and-a-half old baby girl, Irish (RIR), was SUPER full and lethargic so I picked her up and started massaging her crop but it didn't help. It was squishy so I read in The Chicken Chick book about sour crop. I researched and saw that I could very gently...

So my babies were so outgrowing the brooder boxes, so I moved them to their coop. I have been a super helicopter mom and I seriously checked on them every two hours, ALL NIGHT on Saturday night and Sunday morning. I couldn't even go to church, I was so exhausted. Now, it's Monday night and I...