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    breathing problem

    have a chicken that has a sudden onset of breathing problems. went to the coop to let the chickens out and all were fine. My wife went out a half hour later and on her return trip in one of the chickens is sounding like a toy rubber chicken trying to get air in and out. acts normal other than...
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    Six week old chicks behaving like teens with attitude

    Success! After only 3 night of having the lights out in the coop all the kids got themselves tucked in at 8:30. It was a little concerning the last half hour. 1 would go in 3 would come back out but as time went on they all made it back in. Again, the issue we were having was that a handful...
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    Six week old chicks behaving like teens with attitude

    It's not the cold that I'm concerned about. It's the fact that a handful of them don't know to get back into the coop in the evening. They huddle under the coop as it gets dark rather than going in to roost. Our thought was they had no concept of day and night because they have always had the...
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    Six week old chicks behaving like teens with attitude

    Day one of the experiment. It went well. I was able to keep mother hen (my wife) from sneaking out to the coop and turning on the heat lamp. It was 30 degrees out but stayed 54 in the coop. I did go out at 10:30 and turn the heat lamps on. All the kids were either on their roost or snuggled...
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    Six week old chicks behaving like teens with attitude

    As I reread what I wrote, it sounds like I'm trying to teach my chicks a lesson by making them suffer in the cold. That's not what I what I meant at all. What I meant is that I think I need to reset their clocks so they understand what day is versus night. I'm planning on leaving the lamps off...
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    Six week old chicks behaving like teens with attitude

    I think I'm going to try and ground them for the next several days and keep them in their coop. In their six weeks they have never been without some sort of light. I'm thinking they have no cocept of day or night. We live in northern Minnesota and it's forecast to be bellow freezing the next...
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    Six week old chicks behaving like teens with attitude

    I'm needing some advice. My six week old chicks are giving me some issues still with going in for the night. I've read some of the advice others have gotten to get their chicks to go in but none of it has worked for these rebellious teens. We're still having issues getting all of them to go in...
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