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    Any guesses on this "mystery" chick?

    Great!! Thanks for the help. I guess we'll have 1 more brown egg layer to go w/the Red and Black Sex Links!!!
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    Any guesses on this "mystery" chick?

    Thanks. For some reason, I can't post another pic. ???
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    Any guesses on this "mystery" chick?

    oops....I guess a pic would help....I'll try to get one from above, too.
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    Any guesses on this "mystery" chick?

    This is a 3-week old chick that came with our order from McMurray for free, and the kids are trying to figure out what she is. We cleaned the brooder out today so I figured I'd try to get a pic while we were transfering. Thanks for taking a look!!
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    White leghorn bleeding from sore on chest w/bare skin

    New chicken owner. Have 5 white legs raised from chicks with 8 Red Stars. 24 week old white leghorn; just noticed blood on chest 3 days ago and pale comb. Picked her up this AM and noticed large patch of bare skin overlying chest with a furuncle in center of patch slightly scabbed over...
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    7-week old White Leghorns w/17-week Red Stars-How long to separate?

    I just got my first chickens this spring. Kids wanted some chicks to raise, so the 6 White Leghorns just turned 7-weeks and got moved from the brooder out to the coop, but the 8 started Red Star Pullets (about 17 weeks old according to McMurray) that were delivered 3 days ago have been in the...
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    Water supply to coop question

    The hose bib is just a brass one which mounts on top of a vertical run of 3/4" pipe. I didn't know there were frost-free bibs that could be mounted this way. The ones in our house are frost-free mounted horizontally with the long "stem(?)" that extends the whole way thru the exterior wall to...
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    Water supply to coop question

    Hi there, Newbie here. Just built my coop and ran 120' of conduit for electric and 120' of PVC to put a hose bib on outside of coop. I was wondering if I should have or even could have wrapped heat tape around the final vertical length of PVC from 30" underground up to the hose bib. I already...
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