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    Safe to apply deer repellent on/near coop & run perimeter?

    My chickens are fully enclosed; HWC all the way up to a roof over their runs. A hot wire wouldn’t stop what the deer have been doing. My neighbors have hot wires around various things for horses/cattle and the deer just work around it; it doesn’t actually stop them trying to go places or get...
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    Safe to apply deer repellent on/near coop & run perimeter?

    So I tested the liquid fence stuff on an area around my raised beds, which is away from the chickens but was a hot spot of activity. Seems to have been effective...haven't seen them over there since and they were over there many times per day previously. Now it's all around the coops too today...
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    Hemp bedding ok for bird with eyelid problem?

    So it's been almost a week now with the hemp. The floor is no longer lava. That the one pullet's eye has actually been more clear and less watery with the hemp than with the large flake shavings. Because her eyelid isn't shaped quite right, she's been prone to having a watery eye for a long...
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    Safe to apply deer repellent on/near coop & run perimeter?

    Unfortunately I can't use any kind of canid urine. My dog would lose her mind - she gets any faint sniff on the wind of something like that and goes into track-and-fight mode. These are the main two products I'd been looking at, the first because it supposedly doesn't smell as bad to people and...
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    Safe to apply deer repellent on/near coop & run perimeter?

    As the title says...are there any issues to be aware of when appying deer repellent around chicken enclosures and places where chickens may forage? From the products I've looked at so far, it doesn't seem like there would be any actual toxicity issues. But, for example, if the stuff is also...
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    Hemp bedding ok for bird with eyelid problem?

    Well the hemp is dramatically better for the absorbancy issues I was having. Also excellent for coop cleanup - just like kitty litter. Much less stinky and no flies attracted to the coop. All of the pullets in the flock including the one with the bad eye are now ok with the new bedding, and no...
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    Hemp bedding ok for bird with eyelid problem?

    One of the local stores was able to get in a fairly small quantity relative to what I was seeing most places online, so I'm giving it a try. It is finer than I'd hoped for but also behaves very differently than fine shavings so I'm still optimistic. Of course, because none of my chickens have...
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    Growing my little flock

    Well it's that time of year. Time to blast all the accumulated dander, dirt, and other crud out, then appreciate how much the interior of the shed coop still looks basically like it did when first converted...and then be grossed out by how filthy the exteriors of those nest boxes now look...
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    Lasting effects of bumblefoot- how to manage

    Have you seen her grasp a roost/perch or any other object with her foot? If the tendons were affected by the infection, that could also cause the stiff walk. Does she roost at night with the others or just sit on the ground? I have one bird with a stiff foot due to a different kind of injury...
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    Controlling/preventing buttercup sprouts in foraging areas?

    Good for you and your chickens. However, I lost my very first rooster to eating a poisinous caterpillar, so my chickens clearly are not the same as your chickens. Meanwhile they leave plenty of other poisinous things alone. Doesn't meant the strain of buttercup I have isn't a problem for my...
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    Growing my little flock

    Time for a random pic dump! Butter Bean! Lookin' very beanly. Speedy go fast. Speedy go derp-a-derp. Sassy Sqsquatch. The Ameraucana babies. I think this is literally the only photo I have of them all in focus since week 1. They are Corby, Chuff, Jackdaw, Snoot, and...
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    Tapeworms?

    Albendazole is pretty hard-hitting on worms; Poultry DVM lists it as effective against tapeworms: https://poultrydvm.com/drugs/albendazole "Albendazole is effective against all types of adult roundworms and tapeworms." That medication has just become very difficult to get that some places (I...
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    Tractor Supply 18 chicken coop - how to seal the bare wood? Plus a few other ???

    2x4s in either orientation and 2x2s are commonly used sizes for roosts, with rounded edges of course. I mostly use 2x2s but have some very big birds now and will probably be switching to flat side up 2x4s for one flock eventually because of that. Chickens don't like to spend a lot of time in...
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    Tractor Supply 18 chicken coop - how to seal the bare wood? Plus a few other ???

    I have a smaller version of this style coop; if you’re able to do caulking around the metal/wood join on the roof panels might help those last longer - the plywood of those panels was the first part of mine to fail due to slow snow melt from two winters getting in at the sides. It was actually...
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    One side of chickens face has swelled up.

    If you can get the bird to hold still, a down feather held near the nostril should show it clearly if you can’t feel air on your hand (which is admittedly tough with small birds). Snakes can fit through pretty tiny holes. Nearly all predator proof enclosures are not snake proof even with small...
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