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    Bullying - one hen dead

    Hi - we have had a trying day and could use some advice!! Our two hens highest in pecking order have been feather-pulling the other five hens over the past couple of weeks. One bird was bleeding so I isolated her in a separate pen with a pet crate. She is now healed. However, this week we...
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    Brooder question

    We used pine shavings and it worked well.
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    North Carolina

    Hello from Monroe!
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    Southern Illinois Newbie Here!

    Hi there! Nice to meet you. We're new to chicken-keeping too, and we too have an odd bird with an extra toe on one foot that curls upward. She's Etta (for E.T. with his weird long toes) and she's my daughter's favorite. Love your black-and-white birds... so pretty!
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    Greetings from NC!

    Hey there! We are new to BYC and so glad to have found it! What a great information source!!! We are new to raising chickens. My children gave me 7 precious 3-day-old Golden Comets for my b-day in March. Our brooder was a plastic baby pool surrounded by a bendable baby gate and topped with...
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    When to move our chicks outside? (Colorado)

    Hi there - we are in NC and our daytime temps right now are anywhere from 65 to 80, with lows from 40 to 50s. We moved our 8 week old chicks outside last week into a coop almost identical to yours! We actually do have a heat lamp in there, clamped to one of the wooden supports. My husband is...
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