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For several years I added new peeps and now I have too many and have started killing off some of the older ones for the table. My question is, how do I know what is normal and when should I be concerned? For example, on one bird, the fat had turned from yellow to orange and hard. Another bird...

Raising chix affects the way you look at things; when I look at old refrigerator drawers I see nest boxes and when I look at old refrigerator shelving, I see roosts. What have these birds done to us! ChixNthings

The last time I raised a batch of chicks, I just used a long, deep cardboard box and added the necessities. This time I started with a guinea-pig cage with newspaper on the bottom, but it became foul (no pun intended) too quickly. Now I am using an old rabbit cage (well cleaned) and it is...