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  1. sweetpumpkinfarm

    Heat wave / is this enough to help?

    Thank you! This makes me feel better and great reminder about wings away from their body—my girls havent done that yet so good sign they are handling it better than me haha!
  2. sweetpumpkinfarm

    Heat wave / is this enough to help?

    thank you! I leave a pan of cool water with a frozen brick & some will stand on brick but none seem to stand in the water but hoping they try!!! I’m adding more bricks tomorrow.
  3. sweetpumpkinfarm

    Heat wave / is this enough to help?

    In southern california & having a heat wave thru weekend getting up to 103/5 in day & cooling to 80’s at night. My girls are in a covered run that has natural shade 90% of day & also a large space in run thats under the coop and always shady—its where their dustbath is & I run a fan into that...
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    hemp in coop cleanout when hems won’t roost

    we have: silver laced wynadotte; french cuckoo maran; cinnamin queen & wheaten copper maran
  5. sweetpumpkinfarm

    hemp in coop cleanout when hems won’t roost

    this makes sense! I actually found 2 on the roost this afternoon!
  6. sweetpumpkinfarm

    hemp in coop cleanout when hems won’t roost

    thats a great idea, thank you! in your experience what age range do they usually figure it out?
  7. sweetpumpkinfarm

    hemp in coop cleanout when hems won’t roost

    thank you! I’m going to try putting all of them on it tomorrow night!
  8. sweetpumpkinfarm

    hemp in coop cleanout when hems won’t roost

    thank you! I don’t have pics of roosts but can post them in am! the poop is just in that one corner & with only 4 chicks its not a ton so I’ve been spreading it out & sifting it nightly before they go to bed. I sift the sand run 2-3 times a day (basically whenever I’m in it). I was going to do a...
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    hemp in coop cleanout when hems won’t roost

    My 8 week old chicks (x4) took to their coop & run quickly & after a few days went right into coop each night on their own. Their run is 16x6 & their coop is 4x6. The run is sand (they dont free range in yard yet because we live i suburns & theyd fly over fence & have predator issues but...
  10. sweetpumpkinfarm

    7 week silver laced wynadotte hen?

    🎉🥰
  11. sweetpumpkinfarm

    7 week silver laced wynadotte hen?

    🎉🥰
  12. sweetpumpkinfarm

    7 week silver laced wynadotte hen?

    🥰
  13. sweetpumpkinfarm

    7 week silver laced wynadotte hen?

    Here ‘she’ is
  14. sweetpumpkinfarm

    pointers/predator safe things we missed on new coop?!

    o also—do you think the ventilation above nesting box looks right? theres a door that can cover the whole window & were making it so it can also leave a smaller amount of window open in winter (but we are so cal so its never toooo cold but we do get winds).
  15. sweetpumpkinfarm

    pointers/predator safe things we missed on new coop?!

    thank you so much!
  16. sweetpumpkinfarm

    pointers/predator safe things we missed on new coop?!

    ohh thats a great suggestion, thank you!!!
  17. sweetpumpkinfarm

    pointers/predator safe things we missed on new coop?!

    Thank you soo much! We are building a new nesting box thats higher and square so for now we screwed this one shut (since they wont be laying for another couole months) & putting nee box on in a few weeks!
  18. sweetpumpkinfarm

    7 week silver laced wynadotte hen?

    yes!
  19. sweetpumpkinfarm

    7 week silver laced wynadotte hen?

    🥰
  20. sweetpumpkinfarm

    pointers/predator safe things we missed on new coop?!

    I really want a camera but having trouble with anything I can access live as our wifi doesnt quite reach & out house is in a cellular dead patch (we use wifi calling in the house). All suggestions for cameras welcome!
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