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    Questions from a new chicken keeper: watering and lamps

    Well, it looks like I've created a heat lamp dependency! I read your response and then checked out other posts about heat lamps and realized they've had it way too long, and so I went in and turned it off. It was a few hours before dark. When I went to check on them before bed they were huddled...
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    Questions from a new chicken keeper: watering and lamps

    Hi, I have had my 9 week old pullets outside for about 1 week in their new coop. They are loving the run. The book I read, Keeping Chickens, states that their water and food go in the run, meaning they don't need to eat or drink overnight. I can get behind the not eating where they sleep, as...
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    New to keeping chickens

    Also I should say...we have them in an old portable baby crib ("pack and play") which is not great. We may switch them to a large plastic tub instead because the material is not waterproof as I had hoped. It was funny putting chicks in a baby crib.
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    New to keeping chickens

    They came from a small scale nursery in Portland with a box of about 20 or so chicks that age. Strangely though the nursery staff said the store cat lived there with all of them overnight so they should be used to cats...and that brooder wasn't even covered! That was a well trained cat I guess...
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    New to keeping chickens

    Hi there - My family just started the chicken adventure. We have 3 week old chicks, 3 of them, 2 Buffs and a black Australorp. I have not been handling them enough (we've had them for about 5 days) and now they seem really skittish! They are safely kept from our indoor cat but I wonder if her...
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