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    Anyone using cozy coop heater?

    Thanks so much for the tips. I'm trying out a solution tonight and hoping it might help. My little chicks are also suffering from intermittent pasty butts and they're already 4 days old so I'm feeling desperate to understand what it is that is making them so stressed. They seem to be eating and...
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    Anyone using cozy coop heater?

    What a neat solution!!! Thank you for sharing it!
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    Anyone using cozy coop heater?

    I have 4 new baby chicks and I purchased the cozy coop heater for my brooder box. It was recommended to me as safer than heat lamps. I think it's ok, but the only way for them to get warm seems to be to pressed right against the surface. My question is, my chicks seem to want to go behind it...
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    Any silkie chicken pros out there?

    Thanks for your advice!
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    New to baby chicks

    Thank you all! Great advice!! I'm encouraged to read that she'll be the senior chicken in the bunch. She's so dainty it's hard to imagine. Also encouraged to read that chickens are chickens, not lap dogs :) that takes the pressure off wondering my current girl is not a lap chicken, haha. I...
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    Any silkie chicken pros out there?

    Hello! My family and I are brand new to backyard chickens. We bought a lovely, snowy white silkie as our first chicken. She has a nice coop in the yard and spends a lot of time out in the yard with me and my three little toddler boys. She's a sweet little thing, but has not exactly been thrilled...
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    New to baby chicks

    Hello! My family is brand new to backyard chickens. My husband has been wanting a small flock of egg layers for a few years. As for me, I've had my eye on the sweet little silkies. This year at the New York State Fair, we picked up a silkie chicken. Knowing next to nothing really about chickens...
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