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    Baby chick drool/spit up. Help!

    Do I mix the olive oil with water or just give them some straight? and would yogurt work for probiotics?
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    Baby chick drool/spit up. Help!

    Ok so I checked all of my chicks crops. The other two have squishy and kind of grainy crops (if im feeling them right). And the problem chick I couldn't really get a good feel on because every time i tried to feel the area she would squeal and try to get away, which leads me to believe it might...
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    Baby chick drool/spit up. Help!

    They are eating a lot of pine shavings. How do I check their crops?
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    Baby chick drool/spit up. Help!

    So my chicks are a little over one week old. I have two in the brooder right now and so far they have been great. Seem to be acting completely normal. Today I was holding our little RIR and she suddenly let out a huge long clear mucusy drool from her beak. Almost as if she had spit up, but it...
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    Safe sand for chicks?

    Well, they are not on medicated feed so I don't want to introduce them to anything that could kill them if exposed to too young. That is my reason for hesitation, but I suppose I will just use dirt from our front yard where the chickens have never been.
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    what about greens?

    No problem and yes the lobster picture is priceless!!
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    Safe sand for chicks?

    My little 1 week olds are already trying to dust bathe in the pine shavings. I want to put a little bowl of sand/dirt in the brooder but I want to know what is safe. I have some colored reptile sand from an old gecko we used to have. I was going to use that but I wanted to make sure it would be...
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    Cute Chicken Names

    Our BO is named Buffy (theeggslayer). Probably the least original name but she's our best girl
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    California-Southern

    Yes, not entirely ready to give them up yet, just starting to think about options as our new ones are growing. Luckily our little backyard coop will fit 6 but any more and we would be getting a little cramped. It gives us a little more time, but some in the fam would argue that we are feeding...
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    Tips for keeping the brooder dry?

    Its a red and white standard plastic waterer. I guess I will have to go hunting for a brick! and good tip with the curtain. It would be so much easier to be able to pull out the bottom rather than emptying the whole bin.
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    Tips for keeping the brooder dry?

    We've only got two little chicks in there and they already have wet the entire brooder! We have a little chick size waterer thats sitting raised on a plastic lid but somehow when I woke up this morning all of the water had soaked the pine shavings. No leaks from the waterer. This happened all...
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    California-Southern

    Thanks! I will try snooping around on craigslist! Our older ladies are a BO, BR, and a Blue Cochin. All of them are about 3 years now. We're still getting a few eggs every now and then but we've got new chicks in the brooder and so we are starting to think about retirement options for them
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    Black Copper Marans gender???

    I don't have enough experience with this breed or sexing to be sure, as I have never had a chick grow into a cockerel. But based on what I have seen here, my vote would be that you've got two pullets. I feel like if it was a cockerel, the comb and waddle would be a little more developed and...
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    what about greens?

    I've read that treats (anything non feed) should only make up 10% of their total diet. Good luck figuring that out! I say just give them treats, they will still eat their feed and will love you for the greens. If you think about a full free range foraging bird, they are not eating much feed...
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    My Chickens Are Coming!

    Congratulations! Be sure and post some pics and
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