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    7 week old chick died last night

    I just found 3 dead and two dying chicks aged around 7 weeks old in their grow out pen. Everyone was frisky and eating yesterday. Fire ants on two of the dead ones but no one else. The rest of the chicks are eating and perky but now I'm worried about contagious disease and parasites. I'm...
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    Chicken Breed Focus - Swedish Flower Hen

    I've got some babies just starting out from Goldfeather farms. I think at least two will have a tiny crest. Can't wait to see them feather out.
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    Call Ducks Finally Hatched

    My boys and I just fell in love with gray and pied call ducks at a local poultry show. I have chickens, waterfowl, and guinea already but the calls were simply adorable. I haven't found any available in my area (Florida panhandle) and the cal duck exhibitor was nowhere to be found at the show...
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    Show off your roosters

    I have a roo with undetermined heritage. He was filler in a hatchery box last August. I guessed him to be a black sex link but he didn't look like the others. (Bigger, fancier, lighter)
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    Brooder graduation

    The tractors have enclosed coop/roost/nest boxes for nighttime. As we have many predators, the tractors are a bit over engineered to keep the chicks safe. I'm considering keeping my excess cockerels elsewhere after the pullets go to tractors. I'll look into the education spot. Thanks.
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    Brooder graduation

    I have three week old chicks (straight run black sex link, buff Orpington females, and Ameracauna females) brooding in a 4'X6'X12" homemade brooder with daily outings to dust bathe. There are 23 birds. I was planning to move them out to 2 sizable chicken tractors at 4-6 weeks as separate...
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