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    Chicken stopped laying

    let me correct that, that was 1 egg a day.
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    Chicken stopped laying

    I have a welsummer pullet that was laying 2 eggs a day until the weather cooled off now she has not layed for almost a week her behavior is normal, so I dont think she is egg bound. I am just concerned is there anything I should be concerned about or is it just the shortened days and change in...
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    Helping chickens in the heat

    We are going to have triple digit heat here next week and I was wondering if there is anything I have to do to keep the chickens cool. They do free range in our backyard during the day, but I am concerned that they will get too hot. Any suggestions will help, thanks. Oh by the way I have a...
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    Deep Litter Method

    I am thinking about starting the deep litter method in my coop, so we can have some compost for our garden and lawn, but I have a few questions. Do you just do the litter in the coop or in the run too? and do you have to mix anything with the pine shavings for it to work or just the shavings by...
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    they figured it out

    so I have been putting my babies in their coop during the day for a week now, but it was still getting down into the 30's at night and 3 of them dont have all of their feathers yet, I was bringing them in at night because they were not using their coop where I put a heat lamp. Today when I got...
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    I have a problem

    So I have a black sex link that is 6 weeks old and ready to go outside she is fully feathered and outgrowing her brooder, but I have 3 others that are only 4 weeks old and still need head feathers, so they cannot go out full time, it still gets in the 20's at night. I am afraid to put the older...
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    chicks outside

    We got our coop finished tonight and I was wondering if I could put my chicks in it during the day. They are mostly feathered and it is supposed to be in the mid 60's tomorrow, I would bring them in at night because it is suppose to be in the 20's but I thought maybe during the day they could...
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    Funny thing happened with Chicks

    I am trying to make my chickens tame like that I am having a hard time. Any suggestions?
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    Funny thing happened with Chicks

    So I took the chicks out of their brooder to let them walk around the house while I cleaned it, my husband thought it would be interesting to give them a fishing worm(earthworm). So he set it on the carpet, it was still alive, they went crazy they would pick it up and run with it and chase each...
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    Tragedy Strikes!

    I secured the top of it better, and at night or when we leave for town going to put babies in their brooder, in the bathroom, so the animals cannot get them, what is strange is that I am a full time student and Tuesday I was at school all day and they did not bother them so thought we had...
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    Tragedy Strikes!

    So found one of our chicks alive behind our refrigerator this morning the other 3 did not make it, bought 3 new chicks this morning, 1 Silver laced Wayndotte, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Welsummer.
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    Tragedy Strikes!

    they had never bothered them before, next time going to lock chicks in bathroom if we have to be gone for any length of time. Very sad
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    Tragedy Strikes!

    So took the kids to a movie today, and when we came home the dogs had knocked over and tore open the brooder and killed all four of our chicks. The children are very upset, going to figure out something else to do as a brooder, and start over. Hopefully it wont happen again.
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    Need Help ! Need a movable coop.

    I live in a rental house and cannot have a permanent structure for my chickens, I have 4 hens and need some ideas on what would work. We need it to be inexpensive but adequate for the hens to get exercise, any ideas please let me know. I live in Central Oregon and we do get cold winters here so...
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    Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

    So got our first chicks yesterday, we got one black sex link, one gold sex link , and 2 silver laced wyandottes, this is our first forte into chickens so we will have to see how it goes. Here are some pictures of our small flock and the brooder my husband and I made. Here are our 4 littlest...
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