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  1. J

    Sand vs. Shavings. Opinions/advice?

    Question for you guys. I have a roughly 6x8 ft (floor space, they've got some roosting rods and they're nesting nooks as well raised from the floor in the coop) raised coop for my 19 strong flock of 6-7 week old chicks, and I'm currently using Pine Shavings inside of it. I live in North-Western...
  2. thlayli

    New House, Old Coop

    Heyo! Old member coming back after several years -- I had a flock of 17 when I lived in Washington after getting out of the military, but still-enlisted Husbando got orders to California and the chickens couldn't come. Now that Lady Navy no longer gets a slice of me OR my man, we've contracted...
  3. B

    16 Egg Amazon Incubator & quail beginner questions

    I purchased a 16 Egg Incubator from Amazon called the Kktect or otherwise known as "Safego Egg Incubator for Hatching Eggs, Digital Mini Incubator with Automatic Turner and Egg Candler Tester for Hatching Chicken Duck Quail Bird Eggs (16 Eggs)" I have noticed a few things and I have...
  4. Scareab

    Chicken Bath?

    Hello! I was wondering if it's safe to bath my chickens with water. I understand that they dust bath themselves but I was wondering if I can still bath them with water. I have a bathtub and was thinking of carefully washing them within shallow water. (I have bathed a dog before and understand NO...
  5. Runt of the Flock

    New waterer design

    Hey! So in a few days my family is going camping and our twenty five chickens need a new waterer. And in the corner of our coop we had a nipple bucket hanging. But the nipples got clogged and unusable. So my dad and i cleaned the one and made two new nipple buckets and instead of hanging them...
  6. jmafisher

    Advice on using old coops

    We are in the process of buying a farm and it has two existing chicken coops that have not been used for years. The one on the left is attached to a "barn" and the other is free standing, I don't have the exact measurements but they seem to be about 10' by 20'. They both have large windows...
  7. TwinChickens

    Chicken claws

    Is it ok to clip a chickens claws? One of my chickens loves crawling all over anyone she meets and we've all got more than a few scratches from her trying to clamber on top of us, so I was wondering if there's a way to reduce that. If not, I guess love comes at a cost :)
  8. Caring For A Permanently Handicapped Bird

    Caring For A Permanently Handicapped Bird

    I am an experienced caretaker of both temporarily injured chickens and ducks, but that road COMPLETELY derailed 6 months ago when I hatched an Ayam Cemani chick who had a hip/leg malformation. She couldn't walk or move when I found her. Her broodmates were beating her up and I pulled her out. I...
  9. MIchickenlady

    How clean & remodel previously used coop?

    Hello everyone, I'm working on getting our previously used coop ready for our four new chickies-2&1/2 wks old right now. Were starting fresh, gave away the four hens we had when we moved. I'm trying to make the coop look like our house since it will be 25 ft away in the side yard. (See profile...
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