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    Feeding a mixed-age flock

    OK, I get it. Thanks everybody!
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    Feeding a mixed-age flock

    We've got some 10 week old chicks that have been integrated with the rest of our flock for several weeks now. (They were brooded by a mama hen who protected them from the bigger birds.) We've got starter ration in an area where the bigger birds can't get to it, and the layer ration in a feeder...
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    Any problems eating chickens killed by a predator?

    A couple of days ago, some of our 8 1/2 week old chicks got out of their run, and three of them were killed by what we think was a coyote (though it might have been a neighborhood dog). One was carried off (just a pile of feathers left behind) but two were still in our back yard - one was...
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    Friday is day 21!

    Chittyn: Don't get too pessimistic. Yesterday was day 21 for our first hatch. (Broody hen, no incubator.) Many things went wrong - one egg cracked, leaving a mess all over the remainig eggs; Eggs coming out from under Mama; Another hen laying her eggs under Mama. The shells are brown and green...
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    Hello from the Central Valley of California.

    Welcome! I just joined too.
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    Hello from Woodinville, WA

    Hi. I've been reading the BYC site a bunch lately, and finally decided to sign up. We got our baby chicks nearly 6 months ago: 8 pullets (2 Buff Orpingtons, 2 Rhode Island Reds, 2 Barred Plymouth Rocks & 2 Ameraucanas) and 1 cockerel (Buff Orpington). We got about 2 more than we thought we...
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