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    Missing/falling out feathers

    Hi my girls are 14 month buff Orpingtons, I have a flock of 5 of them and 4 of them are losing feathers at the base of their tails. Some are growing back and some are broken. Is this normal in the summer or a product of pecking order perhaps? They all have been dirt bathing their tails where...
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    Rooster needing a new home in NC

    We ended up with a roo in our mix that we need to re home. He is 14 weeks and is supposed to be a starlight golden from TSc. We have younger girls that he is chasing and pecks. He doesn’t chase me and lets me pet and pick him up just the kiddos. I hate to dispatch him if I can find him a new...
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    Help with coop training

    I was taking the out and introducing them for a couple weeks and then my wife forgot to put them up one night and have been out since. Now they have taken up in a bush every night, they will stay if I catch them and out the in the coop but can’t get them there!
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    Help with coop training

    I will start giving this a try! Thanks!
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    Help with coop training

    Need some help with getting my new girls to go in the coop. I have new girls that are almost 14 weeks now and have transitioned them out side with my other girls but can’t seem to get them to go in the coop. I can’t really lock them in the coop as my other girls are using it too and nesting and...
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    Help with rogue rooster

    Hello all! I need some with what to do with a rogue rooster. I have my flock of pullets 7 girls, and I have this random rooster that has now showed up and causing ruckus in my flock. I have no idea where he came from and now he won’t leave. I know he is mating with my girls and have been having...
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    Nesting boxes in or out of coop

    do you find the chicks will go back to the coop to lay even if they are wondering around? Thanks!! I thinking maybe just inside for the winter coming up in case we get a flurry and gotta go buy all the bread and milk to have with my eggs. Lol.
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    Nesting boxes in or out of coop

    Need some help, my girls (buff Orpingtons)will be 18 weeks tomorrow. I have been letting them roam the back yard out of the run, still fenced in and they really seem to be enjoying it. So with nesting boxes should I keep them in the coop or since they are roaming more leave them out of the coop...
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    Help with gender

    Thanks!!!
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    Help with gender

    Hi all! Our first time with chicks and just trying to figure out sex on a couple of our “girls”. We ordered all sexed females and we have 2 in question whose combs are larger and more color than the others. We have 8 “girls” in our flock. Here is pics of the questionable ones. Thanks for the...
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    Brooder size

    Hi yep I’m up in Alamance county, yeah weather weird right now! I’ve got 16 buff orpingtons right now but thinning down to 10 when they are ready to go to our friends. I’m adding windows to the coop to get some more air flow in there for them!
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    Brooder size

    Coop is going to be 4x10 and right now in NC mid to upper 80’s and mid to upper 60’s at night.
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    Brooder size

    Coop is almost done, do you just put them in the coop and lock them in there like a brooder?
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    Brooder size

    Hi all! Just wondering how big I should expand my brooder and when I should stop using the heat plate. My girls are 2 1/2 weeks old and the mud room is staying above 80 everyday. Please ignore the poop all over my heater, they seem to use it more as a roost lately and clean it almost everyday...
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    First coop big enough?

    Coop is going to be 4.5’ tall with 8 nesting boxes, I was planning on with 5 perches at 5’ across so 25’ of perch
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