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    Anyone impatiently waiting for your baby chicks to arrive?!?!

    We found a good homeade meat cross is an EE roo X with a Delaware hen. They grow fast and have a decent amount of meat on them.
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    What Is The Coldest Temperature Young Chicks Can Be Shipped In?

    I know most people don't get chicks in February, but we are having unseasonally warm weather here and so is the breeder. I am working with a breeder and not a hatchery, so we are trying to work out the time. I just want to know what is the safe range of degrees to ship chicks in. I have an...
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    What Is The Coldest Temperature Young Chicks Can Be Shipped In?

    Hi, I am looking to have some chicks shipped to me from a breeder. I am looking to aquire 12-24, 1-2 day old chicks. How cold can they be safely shipped with a heat pack? Thanks!
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    Anybody Have Any Experience Raising "Preemie" Chicks?!

    Thanks Spicy for all the info! Well little baby chickie is doing well. It is eating on it's own and getting bigger! It seems to be doing just fine. My only concern is that if it is a hen, will it have problems with egg binding, should we keep her as a layer? Anybody have some thoughts on...
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    Anybody Have Any Experience Raising "Preemie" Chicks?!

    Have you heard of this before? How often does this occur? If it is a hen, should I worry about egg binding as it goes to lay eggs? I put one of my Silkie chicks in (she is much older then this little one, however she does not bother chicks smaller then herself) to teach them how to scratch...
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    Anybody Have Any Experience Raising "Preemie" Chicks?!

    All of it's Americana nestmates hatched out of the same sized egg. They were all "normal" sized. As to it's mama raising them, it would have no chance to compete with the others and would have died most likely. The mama is our only broody hen that is successfully hatching babies. We are...
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    Anybody Have Any Experience Raising "Preemie" Chicks?!

    Hi, I am new to the forum, and I was wondering if anybody had ever run into this before. About four days ago we had a chick hatch (it was under "Mama"), and so we brought it in. I noticed that it was VERY tiny and that it looked like its feathers had not developed yet. It hatched looking...
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