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    Frost bite

    I am having a problem with frost bite, very early stages but I can see it forming on all my hens. It is -25 but with -40 windchill. The whole inside of the coop is starting to freeze over. I have 15 hens in a 10x10 coop and a 10x10 run, it has ventilation at the top, up above the roosts and the...
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    Hen is being picked on

    One hen is being picked on by all the other girls, she has a wound on the base of her tail, red and raw... I just bought stop pick liquid to put on her, now I was wondering how do I go about this? Should I seperate her from all the other hens? How long? Or do I put this liquid on her wound and...
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    Feathers missing, female? Male? Pics provided. HELP!!!

    This lady bird's tail feathers have been plucked out (the longer looking ones [pic 1]), and one of my rosters has tail feathers missing too (Unless it is a hen?) [pic 2] (Assuming they've being plucked out by other chickens) There are multiple feathers on the coop floor. I am hoping there are...
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    Feathers everywhere

    Why are there feathers all over the coop floor? There are about 13 hens (Hens I hope) in the coop. I know it's not molting because there has been feathers everywhere for a couple months. Today I just noticed on of my chickens has tail feathers missing here and there. And a couple of my roosters...
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    Just a newbie here!

    Thank you guys so much. These are the answers I was looking for. What you all are saying is what I thought. My bf thinks he knows everything about anything and said they would be fine. I will be killing all roosters in the next week, so hopefully that solves all my problems. Free ranging is not...
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    Just a newbie here!

    I have 29 chickens unsexed about 4 months old. Seems like I have 70% roosters(lots of crowing). There are some chickens in the flock that have feathers missing from their backs. Like they've been plucked out . Is that normal behaviour like the pecking order? Or could it possibly be something...
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    When to separate

    New Hampshire reds and ameracana are the breed; 15 each, so it adds up to 30 chickens. Their coop is 10x10 and the run is 5x10. I will probably cook it every style you can think of. And not to sure about adolescent, because this is my first time with chickens. Right now they seem to be fine but...
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    When to separate

    I've got 30 chickens that are unsexed, two months old/ish we are going to butcher all the roosters to eat and was wondering when we would have to do that? Because I'm assuming there will be a lot of fighting, if not already, will I need to seperate the roosters?
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    Deformed chicken toes

    As you can see his two toes are pointing right at each other. It doesn't seem to be bothering him at all. Walks normal, acting normal. Just his two toes look broken. He's very active, eats drinks and poops normal. I honestly don't think they are broken... Just looks.
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    Cleaning the chicken brooder

    Should we clean out the wood chips completely or just put more wood hips on top. And our chicks are on chicken starter and I read they don't need grit until they eat bugs and stuff is this true?
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    2 week old chicks

    the one with the brownish legs NHR and s/he is also the smallest and less feathered out like his brother
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    2 week old chicks

    I've got 30 unsexed chicks at the age of two weeks. 15 ameraucana and 15 new hamshier reds. Today I noticed only one NHR has brown legs while the other 14 have pink cute legs and then I noticed all 15 of my ameraucana have brown legs also. What could this be. I am a newbie, sorry.
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    First timer 30 unsexed chicks

    Thank so much I got the answers I was looking for
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    First timer 30 unsexed chicks

    Do you have to separate the hens and roosters when they get older, if so, how do we house all the roosters until they are old enough to cull? (Will be eating roosters) And if we decide to keep a rooster how many roosters per hen? Thank you in advance.
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    Getting 30 chicks unsexed

    We're getting 30 chicks at the end of May and they will be all unsexed. We will be keeping the layers and maybe a rooster as well, and we'll be eating the roosters but I was wondering when the ladys and roosters grow up do we have to separate them and how do we separate them or can we even keep...
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