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thomas_young•11h ago

Hot take: my neighbor's offhand comment about pine shavings got me to finally fix my run floor

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leo238•18h ago

My coop door kept jamming until I put a $3 cabinet magnet on it

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tarab54•1d ago

Rant: my barred rock got her head stuck in the coop door latch

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iris_green84•3d ago

Can we talk about the hen that quit laying after I moved the coop 20 feet?

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jesseb20•3d ago

Raccoon got into the coop last Tuesday night and I had to rebuild the whole pop door at 11pm

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wrenstone•7d ago

Hot take: quitting pine shavings for sand in the run was the best thing I ever did, and I felt dumb for waiting 2 years

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quinn_nguyen•7d ago

TIL a golf ball in the nest box got my broody hen to quit sitting on air

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price.alice•7d ago

Pro tip: check your coop latch before dusk, I lost 3 hens in 20 minutes last Friday

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kelly823•8d ago

Why does nobody talk about the morning my Barred Rock laid her first egg in the feed bucket

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parker_campbell•8d ago

Serious question, the day my hens stopped laying tipped me off about my coop venting

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wyatt_fisher•9d ago

PSA: overheard a guy at the feed store in Modesto say you don't need to worm unless you see worms, and my hen paid for it

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sethc12•9d ago

I finally tried the deep litter method after swearing it would stink up my whole garage

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patricia_bennett26•10d ago

Realized my mistake at the feed store in Albany: I was counting oyster shell by the handful, not the scoop

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eric_ramirez67•12d ago

Am I the only one who didn't know a heat lamp can kill chicks in a small brooder?

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wrenwilson•12d ago

Thought the guy at the feed store was just upselling me on oyster shells, then my flock's eggshells stopped cracking

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