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    Any possible way to sex Black Australorps?

    I have three, three wek old aussies, all three of which have a good bit of comb growth for their age. Is there any known ways to sex these buggers or is it the old "wait and see" game?
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    Chicks from Tractor Supply

    it is possible, in fact when i got my six silkies the bin proclaimed "mixed bantam straight run". They were all silkies actually. I grabbed the last black one and the last two partridge ones and three white silkies.
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    isn't this just the cutest chick ever

    my gosh!! they're soo cute or handsome if its a he.
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    How Do We Make Our Own feed ?

    Quote: Thanks for link . We are older people so we need all the shortcuts and but at same time want to raise healthy birds . What they put in our food I wouldn't want to feed to my animals much less eat myself but what choice do we have unless we set up for it . So I can imagine what...
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    Buying chicks from hatcheries that are far away?

    I live in Pennsylvania and last year i ordered 25 chicks and ten turkey from cackel. They all arrived safe, alive, and healthy. I lost one but this was days after due to trampling. but i no longer have any of the chicks because of a dim-witted uncle who left the barn door open and multiple coon...
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    How Do We Make Our Own feed ?

    checkout http://organicchickens.homestead.com/chickenfeedrecipes.html . they have some user submitted recepies that i think i am going to make in the near future.
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    Latrobe!!!
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    is it possbile?

    is it possible to use a convection oven (you know the mini-ovens that you can buy from walmart) as an incubator? the one i have has different temp settings going all the way down to about 90 degrees on the "keep warm" setting. of course there would be a thermometer and water inside. it would...
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    Sexing TSC chicks by color?

    Quote: panhale is right. the whitish/yellow ones are the roos and the reddish ones are hens.
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    chick sneezing?

    Quote: thanks Silkiefan! i just hope its not anything serious......
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    chick sneezing?

    Quote: i use pine bedding. i did also switch to the Purina today which is more "dusty" than the other kind.
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    chick sneezing?

    one of my silkie chicks seems to sneezing. it sits all calm-like and then BAM its head flutters around and mouth is hanging wide open. I picked the chick up and it sat in my hand and was all calm and had a little shaking feeling (though the shaking may be because i haven't handles these chicks...
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    Is it normal for them to begin trusting you around 3 weeks old?

    i would say yes, but it really all depends on the personality of the chick. I have a rooster that i got about two weeks( so hes 2 weeks old, and a sex link so you can tell he is a roo) and there are about twenty other chicks, but he is the happiest to see me already. He has started to fly, so he...
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    Newbie here! Any ideas what I got from TSC?

    was it in a mixed red bin, or just a straight run bin? kinda maybe looks like a female golden comet. but maybe not. just a shot in the dark here.
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    Just got some baby chicks

    my guess is that they are golden comets. The pullets(female) are usually red, maybe a little yellowish with red, but are mostly the reddish color. The cockerels are always yellow. Thats what i has recently bought from tsc, but considering that it was a red mixed bin, there is a chance that they...
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