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    Please help!! 11 dead chickens

    I feel so sorry for you. kind of went through the same thing. Bought 6 chicks in March, about a week old. Kept them in the garage under heat lamps until they feathered out then put them in the fenced backyard in which I put chicken wire over the vinyl fencing. We lost 4 Chickens out of a...
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    Our first chicks

    I heard that with the hawks. Our one neighbor (we only have 2) told me not to get white chickens because of the hawks. That is why I got the barred rock and silver laced wyandotte chicks. The family that lived in the house before lost most of their white chicken to them. We do have 2 cats and...
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    Our first chicks

    Forecast tonight is snow flurries, it was almost 70 today. Was working in the yard with just a t shirt on. I heard that when they get feathers it is safe to put them in the yard. just came back i in from the garage everyone is fine.
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    Our first chicks

    So far so good. Been 24 hours and the peeps are doing fine. Spent most of the day attaching chicken wire to the white fence in the backyard. When we are done should have a BIG place for them, about 30 x 80 (the whole back yard). Cheaper to buy chicken wire to attach to the fence then build a...
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    Our first chicks

    Recently moved to a house in the country after spending twenty years in the burbs. 2 acres and it is great. Bought a coop kit online and put it together with my 14 year old son. It will hold 3 chicks figured it was all we needed. Little did i know that state law says you have to buy 6 chicks...
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