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    Will it hurt my girls if I feed them the starter for two more weeks?

    Rachel BB Home from round 2 of 4 of consolidation chemo. No nausea, no mouth sores. Just tired tired tired! Thank You Lord for all the blessings you've shown my family during this time, and thank You for Southern Baptist ladies who love to cook for sick folks! Please donate blood! I feel I'm...
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    Will it hurt my girls if I feed them the starter for two more weeks?

    Thank you everyone!! I appreciate the replies. I am glad the extra protein won't hurt them! They are so darn cute!! I love my chickens even when they chase our rabbits, dogs and cats across the backyard.
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    Will it hurt my girls if I feed them the starter for two more weeks?

    Thanks!! Do you know if too much protein will hurt them??? I am asking because I wonder if I should not feed them tuna, egg, cheese or beef while using the chick starter.
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    Will it hurt my girls if I feed them the starter for two more weeks?

    I have 4 eight week old pullets and 3 twelve week old pullets.. I bought a 40 pound sack of medicated starter crumbles and then read I should have switched them to 'grower feed' this week. Will it hurt my girls if I feed them the starter for two more weeks? Can I amend it to be properly balanced...
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    INTEGRATION PROCESS!!!!!!

    (Den in Penn) I like your idea of free range time. You never introduce 2 dogs in the one's backyard. Neutral territory! Is it okay to use a spray bottle and squirt a hen with water if she is being over-bossy?
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    True Ameraucana: How many wks old to lay eggs?

    I agree with you.... As I am really new to all the yays and nays of chickens. I could be wrong too but, I read whichever color they pop out the first time they lay is the color they will lay for the rest of their egg laying life. (given proper nutrition and of course age as they get older the...
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    5 week old Australorp gender?

    Thank you for your quick reply. AFTER I asked it dawned on me to check the chicks. I found the bumps on all of them. I was relieved and felt silly all at the same time.
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    5 week old Australorp gender?

    Did you notice if any or your Australorps hens had small 'spur bumps' ? I have two one fully feathered and one fluffy barely feathered. I am hoping they are both girls but.....
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    Pullets or a Pullet and a Cockerel? This is Dixie. Born 7-14-2013 Today she and her sister Nikki ar

    Thank you! These are my first baby chicken chicks. I am surprised at the difference between just the Australorps. I hope they are both hens....
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    Pullets or a Pullet and a Cockerel? This is Dixie. Born 7-14-2013 Today she and her sister Nikki ar

    I have read every post I can find on sexing Australorps. Oodles of them! I am an over-excited mama chicken person and just can't wait 3 more days to ask the rest of chicken mama's. My two babies in these pictures are the same age, but they look so different. Both are sweet but Dixie just...
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    Sexing 3 week old chicks? * PICTURE HEAVY*

    I am really new at this... So I wanted to ask you. Did this little chick turn out to be a pullet? Looks like a girl to this untrained eye.
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    My chicks are missing Express Mail USPS

    Well the girls were scanned around 3:30 am this morning. Set on the cold concrete floor of the mail room. I was called at 6:30 am to pick them up. Two were dead in the box. One Welsummer very recently deceased and one Easter Egger Bantam that had rigor.There was NO heating pad?? The four left...
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    My chicks are missing Express Mail USPS

    Okay thank you for the information and the advice!
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    My chicks are missing Express Mail USPS

    Yes I called the seller and they said nearly the same thing, that they could go for 3 days and survive. I had them overnight Express Mail. Not that it has done much good. The postal service was unable to reach Cleveland with their own direct phone numbers. I am just sick!!! As soon as get them...
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    My chicks are missing Express Mail USPS

    Some where between San Diego, California and Cleveland, Ohio are 6 small scared and hungry baby chicks. I've called or visited 8 post offices between here and there and none of them can locate my girls. I'm just sick! How can a package with live babies go missing? No scans, no ideas.:(
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