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    Unrelenting Squawking and Severe Retractions in 2 week old

    Sorry @Eggcessive for the misspelling. I wish there were a way to switch off the spellchecker on this thing!!! I would load a video as @coach723 suggested but I am rather slow at the tech stuff. It's lovely to be able to get this kind of help and I am learning ways to communicate in this brave...
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    Unrelenting Squawking and Severe Retractions in 2 week old

    Hi, @coach723 and @Excessive. Thanks for your advice. I looked in her throat like you suggested, nothing remarkable. She is separated from the other chicks at night so we can ensure she gets extra care, but we have been putting her in with her sisters in the day. She cries a lot either way. She...
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    Unrelenting Squawking and Severe Retractions in 2 week old

    I am puzzled about how to look into a chicken's throat.. and even more puzzled about how to post a video to youtube. The chick looks normal except it is squawking and opening its beak slightly and swaying a little with each squawk. I don't have endoscopic capabilities here, we are just a small...
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    Unrelenting Squawking and Severe Retractions in 2 week old

    Hi, my little buff Cochin started making lots of noise yesterday; she is yelping with an open beak and breathing so heavily it jerks her body, like a human infant with breathing problems. She is still pretty vigorous, so I thought it might be something that she ate that got stuck somewhere going...
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    Ventilation

    Hi, Fricasee. I am finishing my coop and have been thinking a lot about ventilation recently. Right now I have open sides (covered with 1 cm hardware mesh) in both gable ends of my coop-- when winter comes (I am in Maine) I will cover those gable ends with wood, but am planning some kind vent...
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    Adequate coop for Maine: deep litter? Chicken Tractor?

    Yeah. Thanks everybody for the good advice. I am working on one really lightweight tractor made of recycled stuff and using stones on top of rock ledge to make the foundation for a better coop. O the Fox went out on a chilly night and he prayed to the moon to give him light... pretty sad...
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    Adequate coop for Maine: deep litter? Chicken Tractor?

    Hi there,Golden Eagle Nest. I am also a Mainer trying to build my first lightweight coop, with some of the same questions and six little ones hopefully waiting for me on April 27th also. Boskelli1571 above seems to be suggesting siding of thick plywood covered by tarpaper... sounds pretty...
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    Spring 2017 first timers post!

    Hi Lazy Gardener. yup, I am down in Bath. My sister lives up in Warren near you and she has chickens... I haven't told her this yet but I am hoping she can bail me out if the six chicks become too much for me. I have my brooder built with lots of old parts, some of them might well have come...
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    Spring 2017 first timers post!

    Will Spring Ever Come to Maine???? All good intentions for working on the coop today are lost in a surprise snow. This is the site, it is cleared down to the ledge and when it is not too cold out I am placing stones in the foundation. Lemme see if I can get a picture... Okay so there's about...
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    Crocus blooming & Chicks ordered in Maine!

    Good afternoon from Beautiful Bath, Maine. I just ordered my first- ever Chicks! The brooder is built out of old parts and carried up from the basement. The coop is growing slowly (the foundation stones frozen in the icy mud right now). I haven't taken care of chickens in years and years...
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    Chicks coming in a week, any advice?

    hi everybody! I am new to this thread thing and really pleased that I found a way to put a picture in my profile, but haven't yet figured out how to take pictures from the camera to put online... BUT I JUST HAD TO TELL SOMEONE...I DID IT! I ordered chicks for the first time ever! In a little...
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    Spring 2017 first timers post!

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    Spring 2017 first timers post!

    So I am not sure of how to post here or what all these little diagrams on my screen mean but I am pretty handy with a hammer and nails-- I've wanted chickens for several years... is it too late to start with chicks this year? I don't have lots of money but am on a ledge with lots of rock; has...
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