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    group attacking one

    I would not have said so, no. All ten seemed equally active and healthy. The injured one seems to be picking at a little feed in her dog crate, though I think it's more curiosity than appetite. She's very subdued, must be in a lot of pain.
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    group attacking one

    I got a group of ten new pullets last weekend, between 3-4 months old. They're wild and flighty (see my earlier post). When I got home from work today I discovered one of them bloodied up pretty badly around the head and neck. They pulled the skin right off her, at least a square inch, maybe...
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    how to tame wild chicks

    This past weekend I got ten started pullets between 3-4 months old. They've never been handled and are wild and flighty, terrified of being "captured" and picked up. My existing group of 8 hens is very tame, because I've had them from chicks and they're used to being handled. A couple of them...
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    diet and egg production?

    I have 8 hens (ISA browns) who started laying the second week of January. Initially I kept them confined to a coop (due to predators), but have recently started letting them out to "free range" when I'm at home to keep an eye on them. When confined, they ate Purina Layena feed and for scratch...
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    safety questions for chicks

    Thanks for all the replies. No power at the coop so no shop vac. Will try my little hand-held vac. I'm keeping the chicks in the house initially for two reasons: One, I'm in woodsy north Florida, and until they can fly well enough to get up to a perch, putting them outside now would just...
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    safety questions for chicks

    Two questions as a relative newby (have had chickens in the past but not for several years): First, I have a coop that had some styrofoam insulation. During a period of disuse, something got in there and chewed up/scattered some of the styrofoam. I just got new chicks which are currently in...
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    Need info on ORGANIC feed

    Greetings, you fine feathered friends: I am fairly new to raising chickens, having gotten my first chicks a little less than a year ago. I live in the panhandle of Florida. I have 14 Production Red hens that I am free-ranging in my back yard. I seem to be finding a market for my eggs (in...
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