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    Crazy Chickens~!

    Do all chickens act crazy when they first start laying?? My Golden Laced Wyandotte, Ginger is pacing the fence in and out of the hutch , So Noisy and she hasn't laid an egg yet, she doesn't know what she wants. My Speckled Sussex were kind of like that last week when they started laying, but...
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    New Layer Confused~!

    My 2 Speckled Sussex just started laying 2 days ago. They pace the yard are in and out of the coop, make loud noises for hours and they haven't even lay the egg yet. Finally after they have lay their egg they are back to normal. We call it egg brain, because it seems like they are going crazy...
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    Chicks and cold weather

    Do u have a thermometer where the chickens are laying down?
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    Baby chick in the dark

    I live in the Pacific Northwest. If I left the garage door open they would freeze to death. It has been 30 degrees at night and then in the mid 40 during the day. We don't see the Sun very often this time of year.
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    Baby chick in the dark

    No, there are no windows. They seem to be more active during the day, when the lights are on and settle down and lay down and sleep at night when i turn off the lights.
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    Baby chick in the dark

    I Turn on All the lights on in our garage during the day where we have our 4 week chicks. They were in a room in our house with a sky light the first 2 1-2 weeks. So they had day light and night time along with the heat lamp. In the garage it is dark all the time. I just think it is good to have...
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    Chicks Heat

    We have had chickens before. It has been about 3 or 4 years. Since we have had chicks. My daughter gave her Old English Bantams to a some really young new 4-H members last year, they had large chicken s that they couldn't handle. Our chickens we're totally calm and easy to handle , getting older...
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    Chicks Heat

    We have had chickens before. It has been about 3 or 4 years. Since we have had chicks. My daughter gave her Old English Bantams to a some really young new 4-H members last year, they had large chicken s that they couldn't handle. Our chickens we're totally calm and easy to handle , getting older...
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    Chicks Heat

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    Chicks Heat

    Where they are is where the heating lamp is. There food and water is up front.
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    Chicks Heat

    The 4 baby chicks are totally active and acting normally. In fact even though we bougjt pullets we might have a roostet or 2. Is a couple are starting to act like they like to rule the roost. They don't seem sick or anything. My husband says I am worrying too much about it. I just went and...
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    Chicks Heat

    I have a thermometer in with the baby chicks. The crate is about 2 feet high and the heating lamp is just 4 inches above that. Our garage is pretty big and is not all insulated. It has been so cold outside, just 30 degrees this morning. I don't want the heater on 24/7. So during the day I turn...
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    Chicks Heat

    Hi, We bought our Chicks 03/03/13, we think they were 4 to 7 days old when be bought them, which makes them almost 4 weeks old. It has been really cold in the NW where we live 33 degree tonight. We live in a neighborhood not a farm so we moved them from inside the house to the garage, becasue...
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