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    Do I need heat lamps?

    Are these adult birds? Where did you recently move from?, so we have an idea what these birds are used too.
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    If you've integrated adult hens, how long did it take for them to sort themselves out?

    I was given a rescue hen once that was found middle of winter in the middle of town. She was visiting under neighborhood bird feeders and sleeping in thick bushes in the snow. This was my most difficult integration as she was alone with not one friend. I named her "Sweetie" as she was so gentle...
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    Wintertime greens

    I have found alfalfa hay at farmers who still bale in small bales, but they are getting scarce. Most have gone to round bales. Now I just buy it from Tractor Supply they sell a compressed bale for I think around 20.00. Also I buy a couple bags of deer carrots in the fall and throw 3 or 4 of...
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    Wintertime greens

    I buy a bale of alfalfa hay. It's pricy but one bale lasts me an entire winter. I only feed one 3 inch flake every other day or so when the coop stays closed as it's too cold and snowy outside. PS..I am in Michigan. The chickens love to scratch threw it and pick out the tiny leaves that are...
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    Hello from East TN!!

    Hello and welcome to BYC! Boy, I wish you were my neighbor and I could get some homemade sourdough bread!I Love it, but never obtained the skills ot talent to do it right. Plus your story just sounds chill and cool! Looking forward to pictures of your flock and setup as you go along.:):wee
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    Large run building help

    Look local. You may have someone qualified close to you. Maybe someone who does handyman jobs that can build a fense to your specifications Maybe do a local search on craigslist or post on Nextdoor for your community. I see alot of matching suggestions from community members. Also check out...
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    White chick from black hen and orange rooster

    I was thinking that RSL was in the roosters background. Not that he was 1gen product. I am to understand that the sex link coloring does not hold true for following breeding of the results. In other words sex links are not a breed, but a cross breed. So their offspring can look like either...
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    White chick from black hen and orange rooster

    Hi, your rooster looks like a red sex link. Sex link chicks can be identifed at hatch by there color. This saves the hatcheries time and money on sorting them. Some popular red sex link chickens are Golden Comet, Isa Browns, Red Star, Cinnamon Queen... To produce some red sex links they use...
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    Thanks! A nice spring day, a patch of new grass, and an overload of eggs in my fridge, and an...

    Thanks! A nice spring day, a patch of new grass, and an overload of eggs in my fridge, and an idea. Plus some Michigan rocks from my collection. Came together pretty good!
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    About to place late winter/ early spring order - help on which type

    If you absolutely want to avoid broody hens, ( any hen of any breed can go broody) stick with leghorn or production hens. Downside of leghorn or other mediteranian breeds is they tend to be flighty. But great egg producers and they eat less. Production hens tend to be prone to egg binding and...
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    Lost everybody

    No auto door here. I have a walk in coop, and manually close and open my chicken coop. I not only close the chicken door at dusk when I see everybody had gone to roost, but also check in the roost room for sneaky possums that like to get locked in with them so they can feast overnight.!! No auto...
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    My little invention

    Aaaa... it's a hanger for your chore coat?
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    I OUGHT TO BE THANKFUL

    For grief insufferable, tears unshed, For clouds that scattered overhead; For pestilence that came not nigh, For dangers great that passed me by, For sharp suspicion soothed, allayed; For doubt dispelled that made afraid; For fierce temptation well withstood. For evil plot which brought forth...
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    Hen attacked and eating still alive chick?

    Sometimes things go wrong during hatching process. Organs on the outside i have seen once or twice. I would not assume the hen did it. She may have been trying to clean it up!,?.. Especially if she is not doing something similar to the others. I agree that the affected chick probably will not...
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    Mobile coop on an old trailer frame

    Movable coop is a fantastic idea. Our neighbors have one on skids. And they use solar panel battery powered mesh fencing. Every couple weeks they just hook the shed to the tractor and slide it to new grass. (After dark when everybody has gone to roost.) Put the fencing back up and morning finds...
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