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    Male?

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    Male?

    My chicks are now 2 and 3 months old and this little guy...I think....has a very short tail and his waddle and crown are already coming in and turning red. My 2nd batch were unsexed. Is he a dude?
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    Novice inquiry: Huge growth inside butchered chicken

    And the next obvious question....is the meat safe or toss the carcass?
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    Novice inquiry: Huge growth inside butchered chicken

    Yep, that's it!
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    Novice inquiry: Huge growth inside butchered chicken

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    Novice inquiry: Huge growth inside butchered chicken

    This thing was about the size of a softball....maybe a little bigger. Cut it in half and had a meaty nucleus surrounded by a yellow outer core that looked almost exactly like cooked yoke. What is it and is the meat safe?
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    Does this count as stress?

    Any idea how old they are?
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    Official BYC Poll: How Often Do You Clean Your Coop?

    Ive found pine shavings to stay WAY cleaner than hay for some odd reason. I clean it all about on average about once a month, or whenever it needs it
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    3 out of 5 today...
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    Ms. Broody has now been excommunicated from the flock

    Have a total of 5, and one has been broody for over a month. I've DAILY booted her from the coop. She seems to take it more kindly each time. But for the past week, she refuses to go out into the run with the other girls. I open the coop door and try get her into the run and she just ain't...
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    Getting different breeds to play nice?

    Idea/plan: Going to put the comets in the coop during the mornings and let the bigger hybrids free range for a while. That way they're separated, have different water and food sources, but can see and hear each other. Hope the hybrids don't get too jealous :p
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    Getting different breeds to play nice?

    So I have 4 hybrids (size of meat chickens, but egg layers as well) which are about 3 months old and MASSIVE, and 3 golden comets (tiny little things by comparison), who are about 1 month old. I've been keeping the comets in the garage for safe keeping (we've lost too many to predators at this...
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    6 dead chicks...only gizzards neatly left

    Great advice everyone and thank you. I am VERY new to raising and keeping chickens, so this has surely been a hard lesson, one that I will never forget. Next flock will certainly be kept indoors at night until they're old enough to be outside on their own.
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    Which animal killed my duck?

    Would need to be a fairly big opossum, in Maryland you have foxes and bobcats to consider. How rural are you?
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    6 dead chicks...only gizzards neatly left

    Wire is less than an inch at any given spot. Scene of the crime was in the near center of the pen (ground floor, not the coop itself). Whatever it was...it was inside. I need to build a front door on the coop portion and lock them in, but should I even go further and bring them into the garage...
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