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    New Chicks!

    Just to follow up, they are actually black sex-linked (or black star I believe) a white rocks. Unfortunately one of the Black ones died two days in, and another had a pretty bad birth defect (issues walking, head cocked to one side all the time) and died this morning. But the rest seem to be...
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    Mixing chicks of different ages?

    Sounds good. I would get more now (I tried actually) but the only place we can find chicks currently in our area without buying 25 more seems to be when TSC gets them in this Mon or Tues. Its not what we were hoping for...but its what happened. We do have a large brooder area (about 30" by...
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    Mixing chicks of different ages?

    We got a group of chicks several days ago, but unfortunately our 3+ breeds was 2. And 16 of the 25 were one breed. Now we are having mortality issues with the ones we only had 9 of and lost 2 already (birth defects it seems). So we can get some more at TSC in a few days and were wondering can...
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    New Chicks!

    They are all brown egg layer pullets. So we aren't too worried. They delayed the order to put in certain breeds when we ordered originally so they would lay better they said, and per their website the only one backordered that long was RIR, so I would think some are from those. I was just...
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    New Chicks!

    Well they were hatched on Sunday and shipped Monday we thought. But at 6 this morning they were at the post office. Apparently Mt Healthy doesn't play around. 26 chicks in good shape. Does anyone know what breeds are yellow as chicks versus the darker colors? we have about 10 dark and 15...
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    Flooring in basement for older chicks

    Sounds like a plan! I wasn't sure if they would ruin the plastic, but the shaving on top sounds good and I can buy the thick plastic to try and plan ahead. Sweeping and mopping don't seem too hard at all! Thanks!
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    Flooring in basement for older chicks

    I am just starting to raise some baby chicks. I am starting them off in boxes with heat lamps and all seems easy enough. But we are getting 25-26 and we don't have big enough boxes to allow them to stay in them without getting cramped as they grow. So we figured we'd convert a room in our...
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