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    Slightly losing my mind - new broiler chicks are dying off at an alarming rate...

    Thanks for the follow up! I actually spoke to a farmer friend of mine in PA, who actually had a 100% failure last year from the same hatchery. At $200 for just the privilege, I may as well let these ones die off and order from Cackle. :| Still, thanks again for the mention!
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    Slightly losing my mind - new broiler chicks are dying off at an alarming rate...

    From all I've read, you only opt for medicated feed when you're doing the more industrialized chicken farming, where the birds are cramped and waste accumulates. Otherwise you're stalling out their immunity buildup. As I mentioned in the beginning, the temperatures are spot on at 99F with...
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    Slightly losing my mind - new broiler chicks are dying off at an alarming rate...

    I'm in New Hampshire. The thing is my Peking Ducklings shipped from California without issue, and again, all were alive and peeping Wednesday morning. I believe my elevation is about 200ft above sea level. As to the egg source, you might be right and thus why PP was indifferent. As of right...
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    Slightly losing my mind - new broiler chicks are dying off at an alarming rate...

    Last year, I ordered my first batch of Cornish Cross Broilers from Purely Poultry. Over the first two months, I had a much higher failure rate than expected (anticipated 5%, had 18%). I noted that they shipped from Iowa. When I ordered a second batch a few months later, a Missouri hatchery...
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    Introducing old birds to a new flock - a sort of inversion

    A bit of an update... I did the "close proximity, but isolated, runs" for about a week. Then, I took the whole ordeal in a very strange manner. I actually brought in my two roosters first. They were both "close" to the size of the mature birds. The males were surprisingly tame. They didn't...
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    Introducing old birds to a new flock - a sort of inversion

    Thanks all. I don't free range, mostly due to neighbor concerns. But yes, to recap: 7 hens of 5 mos. age 14 hens of 3 mos (I've segregated the roosters to handle crowing issues for the time being until they're old enough for the no-crow collars). My thinking with the older hens into...
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    Introducing old birds to a new flock - a sort of inversion

    Hello all, Without going into too much distracted detail, pretty soon the winter months will be upon me here in New England and I will need to have my two egg laying flocks merge. I started with 7 egg layers (which are now 5 months old), and 2 months later opted to get 16 more birds to justify...
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    Yet another new guy...

    I figure you folks might appreciate some pictures. My 7 "mature" New Hampshire chickens when they first got put in their newly made coop: Then some of my meat birds, gorging themselves in the morning. Oh right, and one Buff Orpington Chick.
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    Yet another new guy...

    Hello there, I figured I would go through the line items from the suggestion: (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Originally from Portland Oregon, I moved to New Hampshire so I had land that was more free to use than other places. On my two acres, I started...
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