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    what breed??

    I think the big black one is a pig
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    Oh No!!! My Poor Tomatoes!!!

    I am new to chickens and have some that are seven weeks old. I have read online that chickens will not mess with plants in the nightshade family. We planted 8 tomato plants about a week ago. They have been largely unmolested. My husband said we should put up some netting around the plants to...
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    What are we?

    Mrs. Fluffy, I don't know sorry lol
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    What are we?

    The chicks are about 2 weeks old. We got them at TSC and believe them to be out of the assorted reds bin. Not really sure if they were Pullets or Straight Run, although they seem to be feathering out fairly fast. They are all single combs. However, Each of their feathers are slightly...
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    6 week old "rare breed" from McMurrays Hatchery

    looks alot like a gold laced wyandotte
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    heat lamp safety

    Keep it away from the sides, bedding..etc... and lots of zipties to secure it in case it does happen to fall..
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    Those that got chicks from the "straight run" bin....

    We bought 15 chicks "straight run" from someone selling them around the area. Right now it is looking like we have 14 boys, but we are crossing our fingers and hoping against hope that another one or two are pullets. We have already started another round. This time we went to TSC and got some...
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    Almost 7 weeks old, please tell me one of them is a she (BIG PICS)

    Ok heres a few more of the only I think and hope now is a girl. sorry my camera is bad
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    Almost 7 weeks old, please tell me one of them is a she (BIG PICS)

    Oh man. I guess we were kinda holding our breath and crossing our fingers on a couple of them. Everyone of the chicks is slowly revealing itself to be a boy Now we know to stay away from the place that sold of these chicks. "Straight Run" for $1. Thought maybe we would get a lot of Roos...
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    Almost 7 weeks old, please tell me one of them is a she (BIG PICS)

    hey all thanks for viewing/help anyway this is my first time raising chickens. They are all almost 7 weeks old, and I'm really thinking I have 1-3 girls of 15 I'm going to show the pics of ones that I think are potentially the pullets. First up is Fudgey, a BA which I "Hope" is a she...also...
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    3 week old chicken - dare I say crowing?

    When our chicks were five weeks old, we played some videos of roosters crowing to see if we could bait one or two of them into crowing. One Golden Laced Wyandotte, which we were crossing are fingers was a female, did the very same thing several times in a row while the video played. It stuck...
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    Mystery Chick. Any Ideas?

    We picked up several chicks at TSC today. They had a clearance bin. All the chicks in the clearance bin were red sex links or all white chicks. There was one chick that was out of place. It was the only chicks in the bin that looked like itself. Since it was only 50 cents we decided to keep...
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    Woot!!! Made a trip to Tractor Supply today! with Pics

    Got it in Hickory NC TSC. There was a huge bin full of them. They all just looked really dirty but otherwise healthy. edit Im thinking the last one might be a delaware?
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    Woot!!! Made a trip to Tractor Supply today! with Pics

    And they had silkie chicks. And a 50 cent bin of chicks. The $0.50 bin chicks were filthy but they looked like assorted reds with some Cornish X in there. We bought 10 red chicks, 5 silkies, and 1 mystery chick. One of the reds. I *think* these are red stars although some have wings...
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    What is the earliest I can move my chicks to the coop?

    Mine just turned 6 weeks old and got the eviction, but its in the 80s here..so yea But about 4 weeks old they got out of the brooder ALL THE TIME!
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