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    ALABAMA!!

    Monroe County 4H is having a Chicken Show & Auction November 2nd in Monroeville. Everyone is invited to come! All of the chickens auctioned will be laying hens. My daughter has worked very hard to raise her 24 chicks. She has Buff Orphingtons, Grey Cochins, and Barred Plymouth Rocks, but there...
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    chick walking funny

    Thanks! I gave her some sav a chick tonight and going to get some vitamins tomorrow!
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    chick walking funny

    I don't think she could have been injured she has been separated crom the others because they were pecking her. I never heard of giving apple cider vinegar but the pasty butt seems to have cleared up on its own. I do have some Chick saver and will try giving her some. My poor daughter is just...
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    chick walking funny

    I thought about that but all the chicks have been vaccinated... so I wouldn't think that would be the case?
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    chick walking funny

    Here is another pic
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    chick walking funny

    My daughter has some 4 week old chicks for a 4H project. This evening we noticed one of them walking funny. This particular chick had problems with pasty butt and had to be separated from the others cor a while but we have never noticed her walking wierd until today. Not sure what to do? Any...
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    4-H Chick Chain Project

    My 10 year old is participating in the 4-H Chick Chain project this year. In a couple weeks she will receive 24 day old chicks (all female) - 8 each of Buff Brahma, Barred Plymouth Rock, and Buff Orphington. For 21 weeks she will raise them and then take her 5 best to the local fair to auction...
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    springtime post your new chick pics

    My new babies! Both olive eggers x double laced blue barnevelder (extra eggs sent when I ordered DLBB eggs)
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    Intervention: Helping Your Chicks Hatch

    THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for posting this! All my life I have heard that you NEVER help a chicken hatch... and I never have. I have had some expensive eggs incubating for 20 days now. On day 18 one pipped (which really freaked me out)... after 24 hours he was no longer making progress and...
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    Flock wiped out

    Thanks, I appreciate it so much! I will definitely let you know if we decide to go in that direction - I've always heard marans are a great breed and lay beautiful eggs. Really wish I could've sene that hawk when your Rosie attacked it! LOL Actually, I haven't let my kids out back much since...
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    Flock wiped out

    That's so sweet of you! We actually are quite far away - South Alabama! I'm not really sure yet what direction we are going to go in at this point. Its strange to think you can be almost heartbroken over chickens! I think we may wait until spring if we decide to start over, and not sure if we...
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    Flock wiped out

    Hog panels are not a bad idea either - I'm sure I could get them at our local tractor supply. We did have portions of the pen reinforced with hardware cloth, but apparently not well enough. I even thought about an electric fence, but then I would have to worry about my kids and our pets, so...
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    Flock wiped out

    A chain link dog pen isn't a bad idea, although I wouldn't have thought they could get into our backyard because it is fenced with chain link! We do live literally right in the middle of the city, and do have leash laws. The dogs ran off, but I didn't see a collar on either of them. Its just...
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    Flock wiped out

    I am so upset. This morningour three barnvelders were great, right before lunch we looked out to find two big dogs had torn into the coop and killed them all! We have tried to be so careful, and the coop is in our fenced back yard! My hubby is beside himself. Not sure what we will do now... But...
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    What should we name our new chicken?

    Oreo?
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