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    Chickens haven't laid in four months, staying in coop

    They have a couple extra hours of light in their coop from an LED light. It comes on at dusk and goes off around 10pm. We did the same thing last winter, and while production dropped a bit, it picked back up pretty quickly when spring rolled around. What should we be feeding them? Yeah, I...
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    Chickens haven't laid in four months, staying in coop

    Hi all, our six 18-month old chickens haven't laid in four months, since they started molting. They molted back in the fall, but now we're seeing down feathers in the pen again, and they are spending a lot of time in their coop. A couple combs are pink, but more than half seem to be pale...
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    Opinions wanted on runty Silky PLEASE!

    Separating may or may not work. I had two runty chicks who I tried to separate based on the fact that they weren't getting bullied away from the food and falling behind in weight gain. I put a divider in their brooder, and it made them extremely unhappy, to the point that they were distressed...
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    Heat index over 100 today

    Their coop and half their run are under shade cloth. But they still seem to get hot and hang out in their coop a lot.
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    Heat index over 100 today

    So, the heat index is going to be over 100 today with high humidity. I froze a milk jug overnight to put in their coop, and I'm planning to wet down the ground in the run. What else can I do to help out the chicks? They're 5.5 weeks. My husband is picking up a misting system tonight, but that...
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    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    Update on Penn, who we think has that double fray (fr) gene. At 5 weeks, her feathers are coming in and she looks less of a mess now. I haven't noticed as much feather breakage either, though she's missing some primaries that broke earlier. Her comb hasn't gotten any bigger or at all pink. Kinda...
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    Moving chicks outside in the heat at 5 weeks?

    Cool. Thanks everyone.
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    Moving chicks outside in the heat at 5 weeks?

    So, our chicks sort of vary in age. Most of them are 5 weeks, but three of them are probably 8 weeks. We're wondering when we can move them outside. They're getting SUPER rambunctious in their brooder. Oklahoma temps are about mid-90s during the day and 70ish at night. Our run has some shade...
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    Kiddos went outside to frolic

    The temps dropped here yesterday, and we took the opportunity to take our flock outside while we built them another brooder. We linked up two wire pens inside their run so we'd have an easier time catching them. We've got 3 Welsummers (two pullets and a cockerel) who are probably 7 or 8 weeks...
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    Welsummer, Rhode Island Red and Light Sussex sexing help please?

    Watch for the comb and black chest feathers. Chelsea (now Chuck or, as we call him, "Chuckles") started getting a big comb and wattles and his chest is turning black. Our Wellie pullets have stayed salmon in the chest.
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    Welsummer, Rhode Island Red and Light Sussex sexing help please?

    I have one that looked similar to that, with a v that got blurry. Turned out to be a roo.
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    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    I'm not saying she's a frizzle or a frazzle or whatever. But I don't think she has mites. Her feathers grew in like that from day 1. No one else has feathers like that, nor do we have any signs of an infestation after 4 weeks of them brooding together. She's not itchy. She doesn't pick at them...
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    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    Don't think so, and neither does my husband (he's a veterinarian, so he would recognize mites). She's just always had feathers that flip out, even when she only had about 2 of them, and weird little diminutive wings. I think she's just got a genetic defect.
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    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    She has both cheek puffs and blue legs. She looks like the others, mostly, except for the goofy feathers. It's hard to tell what the comb looks like, because it's small. If you click on the pictures, they get much larger.
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    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    I'm hoping someone can help. We have a 4 and a half week-old EE chick who has sort of... never been like the others. Her (or his?) feathers are weird and kind of stick out; she's always been small and round; her wings are kind of awkward and short. She's not the greatest genetic specimen...
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