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    Sick baby chick

    I'm certainly not an expert on any of this, but did you try giving him/her electrolytes to help it gain its strength? Shipments can be stressful, so perhaps that would help? Sav-a-chick is one example, you would offer it in a separate waterer (keep waterer with normal water out in addition to...
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    What kind of chickens do i have?

    Assortments could pretty much contain any breed, so we would definitely need to see pictures to identify them. You could try and describe them maybe?
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    Heat lamp

    I too used an EcoGlow when I was raising my chicks. The risks of headlamp fires definitely made me spend the $80, because it is completely safe. It worked pretty well for me, although I've never used a heat lamp before so I can't really compare the two. It supposedly simulates the heat from a...
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    Ended Contest #7 Cutest Baby Fowl - 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong

    @NikkiCole5 No, they aren't.. I wish they were :) The sunlight hitting them makes them seem transparent almost
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    Ended Contest #7 Cutest Baby Fowl - 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong

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    Ended Contest #7 Cutest Baby Fowl - 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong

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    Can anyone help sex my chicks from these images?

    From my limited experience of raising three chicks (two of which are roosters) I'd agree with iwiw60. I can't really tell from the last one. But like so many people told me, you can never truly tell until you hear a crow
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    4 week old babies

    They are very cute! I agree, I put my chicks outside at around this age supervised for thirty minutes, than forty the next day, than fifty the day after that, etc... That was their dust bathing time. Although they usually dust bathed in the shavings as well
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    Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

    Look at those fluffy cheeks! This is him when he was a baby! Somebody's head is flattened from being under the EcoGlow
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    Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

    Guess what? Chicken Butts
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