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    Newbie questions

    Welcome to the forum, glad you joined! Probably not. If they are diseased or have parasites then your chickens could get them. If your chickens have diseases or parasites then the other chickens could get them. But you get many of the same risks from the wild birds so I don't consider it...
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    What can I use for my laying boxes,I place's

    What do your nests look like? Photos would be fantastic. People use hay, straw, wood chips, wood flakes, Spanish moss, leaves, rags, carpet, sand, and who knows what else. I don't see anything wrong with pine needles or shredded pine bark. I suspect the real problem is that your lip around...
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    Foggy weather and egg production

    I'd suspect the shorter days of winter is more likely to cause them laying a bit less than fog. But I haven't seen any studies on how fog would affect them.
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    Foggy weather and egg production

    There are different triggers that cause a hen to release a yolk to start the internal egg-making process. Some of those triggers are related to light. I've heard it does not take a lot of light, enough to read a newspaper by, so I'm not sure fog would interfere with that. Even if it did, fog...
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    Roosters behaviour.

    What keeps them warm is that down coat they wear under their feathers. They will huddle when they are cold, they get some benefit form that, but unless you have temperatures well below 0 F (-18 C) they don't need to. They will be fine.
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    Coop & run don’t smell, but lots of insects and potential rat issue

    Why do you consider those insects a concern? If the chickens could catch them they'd eat them for a protein boost. The bug eggs are probably too small for the chickens to eat them but if they can get to the larva they'd enjoy eating those also. I try to keep mosquitoes down but they breed in...
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    Is this egg fertilised?

    I do not see the bulls eye. I think that white spot is the unfertilized blastoderm.
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    Roosters behaviour.

    So you are not concerned that this violence may endanger your husband, just "other" people? I consider "other people" a valid concern. If he goes after your husband he could easily go after others. There could be a financial liability if you get sued plus you'd probably feel guilty if anyone...
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    Good Chick Breeds?

    Yep
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    Are they going to lay soon ?

    I can't remember where you are located but from the background in the photos I'd assume a reasonably mild climate in the northern hemisphere. It does not look like the middle of summer but there is some green stuff. That means your days are still pretty short compared to what they will be in a...
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    What’s the best way to integrate 2 flocks that have 3 roosters…

    When you deal with living animals you never know what will happen. It is possible you can merge them and it works out great. You may see fights to the death. The secondary may become primary. Hens and pullets may decide to join a different flock. I cannot give you any guarantees as to how...
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    how to get chickens to lay eggs in the nesters? My chickens are laying the eggs all over the hen house. I have a community nester, about 3 feet high.

    Sometimes when you can get one to switch some of the others follow her but that is a lot to change. Good luck!
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    how to get chickens to lay eggs in the nesters? My chickens are laying the eggs all over the hen house. I have a community nester, about 3 feet high.

    Thanks for the information, this helps a lot. Obviously since your other hens laid in there the chickens can get there if they want to. Your problem is not that they cannot get up there, it is that they don't want to. So the "want to" is what you need to change. That sounds like a standard 2'...
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    New chickens during winter time !!! Help!!!

    Then that could work out well, it should be enough room for 6. My question would be mainly about venting on two points. High humidity can lead to frostbite when temperatures are below freezing. If you can keep the humidity levels down then they have a lot of cold tolerance pertaining to...
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    New chickens during winter time !!! Help!!!

    How big is the greenhouse (in feet) and how many chickens are you talking about? The concern is overcrowding, which applies any time of the year. You have two issues in winter. One is a cold wind hitting them with them having no way to get out of the wind. That should not be a problem in a...
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