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  1. RandyStine

    Ladies First Auto Coop door are the best.

    I can't speak to your customer support issues because I haven't had any problems with my Ladies First Chicken Door in over a year. It has worked perfectly ever since I installed it. I haven't even changed the batteries yet.
  2. RandyStine

    two chicken coops enough for 6 chickens?

    Instead of buying 2 TSC coops you could probably get a local handyman to build a proper coop from a used shed, or even a hoop coop for the same money. Those TSC coops make good hospital/quarantine coops for one bird, but not a whole flock. Besides, the first time you have to crawl inside one of...
  3. RandyStine

    Eggbound? Soaked and resting. What's next?

    Follow up: My chicken never passed an egg after several soaks. After several days in the "hospital" she seemed to improve, even though she didn't pass an egg. I returned her to the coop where she seemed okay. Not her old self, but better. Two days later she took a turn for the worse. No energy...
  4. RandyStine

    Eggbound? Soaked and resting. What's next?

    I have a hen who was doing the penguin walk (it reminded me of me walking around with low back pain). She was also listless with a limp, pale comb. I gave her a 20 minute warm soak, access to scrambled eggs (with shell) and she's tucked away in a warm, dark room. What do I do next?
  5. RandyStine

    Ladies First Auto Coop door are the best.

    I've had my Ladies First Chicken Door about 6 months and I love it. The first night after installation I didn't see the blinking green light signaling the door was closed. I went out to find out what went wrong. One cockerel decided to roost in the doorway and the door came down on him. I had...
  6. RandyStine

    Automatic Coop Door - What do you like?

    You've got your door now, but I want to add my 2 cents. I have a Ladies First Chicken Door. It has a safety sensor. It's activated by light only. There's no timer function, but I don't miss that function at all. It's powered by batteries recharged via the solar panel/light sensor. The door is...
  7. RandyStine

    What to use to make run smell fresh and clean?

    I use dry leaves as my Deep Litter, both in the coop and the run. I only have 3 birds, but it works very well. The run never smells bad. I think that's because the birds scratch the bag of leaves down to dirt in about a week, so the run's floor is mostly soft, fluffy dust with a little bit of...
  8. RandyStine

    hen is hanging backside out of nesting box and egg drops to the floor, any suggestions?

    I would put the nest boxes on the floor with larger boxes to accommodate the larger hens. DON’T put a roost above the nest boxes, though. The nest boxes will be full of poop overnight. If you have no other choice, put a cover on the nest boxes to catch the poop.
  9. RandyStine

    Weather related crankiness?

    I hadn't noticed it prior to other storms, but we're supposed to get almost a week of rain with multiple days of thunderstorms. And we've had a significant cool front. Maybe the hens are just moody today.
  10. RandyStine

    Break chickens of laying on ground

    I can only offer that I had the same problem and went the fake eggs route. It took about a week, but the girls got it right eventually and they stopped eating the eggs too.
  11. RandyStine

    Weather related crankiness?

    My 3 hens are usually pretty tolerant of each other and of me handling them. But this evening they weren't. None of them were vicious and they did let me hold them for a quick inspection as I do almost every day. But they were noticeably more impatient and quicker to peck each other more than...
  12. RandyStine

    Chicken run attaching

    I’m too old and fat to crawl under to get eggs our birds that might need gathering from under there so I would keep them out, BUT, if I had to do it, I would put chicken wire or hardware cloth around the bottom of the coop and cut a hole in the dog kennel fence that allows them under the coop.
  13. RandyStine

    Grit mixed with oyster shell?

    I cut a couple plastic jars into "troughs" and screwed them to the coop wall. One for grit, 1 for oyster shell. No dishes to carry in or out. Easy to see what needs filling.
  14. RandyStine

    Automatic coop doors: I'd love your input

    I read this is an issue for many automatic doors. I put my door opening about a foot off the floor. The birds step up on a cinder block to get out of the coop. Of course, there's a ramp going down to the run. I haven't had any problems with stuff in the tracks, but it's only been in for a...
  15. RandyStine

    Automatic coop doors: I'd love your input

    I studied them for some time before I got a Ladies First. Install was easy, but I suspect that's true for most. When I tested the closing on an obstruction it worked great. Basically, when the door met resistance it raised, then lowered again. If the chicken,or hand, is still there it repeats...
  16. RandyStine

    Are they eating eggs?

    Well, I checked for eggs earlier than usual and again later in the afternoon. One hen has resumed laying. I assume the other will soon. I'm pretty sure they're not eating their eggs. But I'm still thinking about rollaway nest boxes. Homemade of course. Store-bought are too expensive.
  17. RandyStine

    Are they eating eggs?

    Thanks. It does. Their run is 8'x8' with about 3"-4" of dried leaves. They've been good about laying in the box, but there're corners and niches and lots of leaves in the run that I didn't check. That'll be a tomorrow chore. In the meantime I'm YouTubing rollaway nest boxes just in case.
  18. RandyStine

    Are they eating eggs?

    I have 2 layers and a pullet. For the last couple weeks I've been getting 1 or 2 eggs a day. Yesterday I got zero eggs. No big deal. Both layers took a day off. Today? Zero eggs again. Now I'm wondering do I have an egg eater? If there were some remnants of eggs somewhere, I'd be certain of it...
  19. RandyStine

    Are they eating their eggs?

    This must be where the saying "having egg on your face comes from".
  20. RandyStine

    Looking for ways to attach chicken wire to chainlink!

    I used rebar twist ties. These are in the concrete section of your local big box hardware store. They're used to tie rear in place. They require a special tool called a twister. About $9.00. The twister and 100 ties cost less than 100 zip ties. Using the twister is easy to figure out. The sun...
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