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    When will they lay?

    She looks about the same as my girls did when they started to lay a few weeks ago (two days before my birthday, best birthday present ever!), they were about 19 weeks at the time and had just started making a bunch of noise too, kind of cackling... good luck, I'm sure it'll be soon!
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    Wild, crazy chicks

    My five 3 week old chicks also fly around like crazy when I enter the room, like they think I'm coming to put them in the pot, little do they know yet that they will be coddled for life! So I stand around with my arm in the cage when I don't have much else to do! Sometimes with a cup of coffee...
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    Help!

    Sorry to hear about your babies. I agree with Sorin, making our room "pink" with pink curtains really cuts down on the aggressiveness. Every time I open the curtains (which do not make the room dark, just pink) one of my 3 week old chicks start pecking the others, it seems that one of them in...
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    space for chickens

    Last year I had my 4 chickens in a coop that was only 12 sq ft inside (they had loads of room outside, but it's cold here and they wouldn't come out when it was -20C). In the summertime when they only used it for sleeping, there were no problems, but in the winter they started to "pluck" one of...
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