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    Food and water inside coop?

    I built a coop with an attached run. My question is, do the chickens have to have access to food and water over night, while they are inside the coop, or can it stay in the run? FYI....the run is TOTALLY enclosed, top to bottom, including hardware cloth beneath the stone, sand, and earth in the...
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    NY chicken lover!!!!

    I'm new to this, but in all my reading, the primary reason for the red bulb was because it does not mimic daylight, so it keeps the chicks warm, but it allows them to have "dark" when the white, overhead lights are turned off.
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    NY chicken lover!!!!

    I was at the Ithaca TSC yesterday and they had black sex links, golden comets, cornish rocks, and (I think) black orpingtons.
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    NY chicken lover!!!!

    Well...don't go by me....I'm new to the chicken world. I know they are silkies and that they have 5 toes like they're supposed to.
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    NY chicken lover!!!!

    My neighbors found one of their FULL GROWN golden comets being attacked by a red tailed hawk on my front lawn about a month ago. Last year, they lost 3 to a red tailed hawk INSIDE their barn. So, whoever says hawks don't take out full grown chickens is sadly mistaken.
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    Comment by 'jakesbigpapa' in article 'All About Chicken Combs Single Pea Rose V Shaped Etc'

    Thanks...this was very informative. When does a comb normally start developing?
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    NY chicken lover!!!!

    Mine aren't bearded, but I don't know if she had any that were.
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    NY chicken lover!!!!

    Hey, if anyone is looking for silkies, I picked up 4 (2 blue and 2 black) using this add from craigslist. They're all healthy and feathering out really nicely. 3 were day olds which came directly out of a breeding pen with a broody white silkie and one was two days old out of an incubator...
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    NY chicken lover!!!!

    Just thought I'd say hi, from Ithaca. First post on this thread.
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    Comment by 'jakesbigpapa' in article 'BYC Index of Abbreviations & Acronyms'

    This is great! Thanks.
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    Anyone else doing the "chick wait"?

    3 are speckled sussex and 2 are "aracauna" - easter eggers.
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    Anyone else doing the "chick wait"?

    Well, it's been a week since we got our silkies, and 5 days since we picked the rest of the flock up from the feed store, and everyone is doing well. Here's our EE, a golden comet, and a blue and black silkie. b It was warm enough the other day to let them forage for a few minutes. My 3...
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