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    >Hen Attacked Younger Pullets, What's Next?<

    We just put our little 10 week old chicks with our hens. They had been in an adjoining run during the day and in a large cage in the coop at night. I was really nervous about putting them together as some of the hens were acting aggressive through the cage wire. At first it was like a frenzy...
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    I keep murdering my chicks!!

    I tried my very first hatching this winter. Started on Dec 3rd n had Christmas morning chicks. The grandkids were ecstatic! I got the eggs for incubation from my own hens. It was my understanding that the eggs must have humidity the whole time. We had a 70% hatch rate, which i thought was...
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    Christmas Day Chicks

    In my first attempt ever to incubate and hatch, everything went so well. I read alot of advice on BYC and I googled questions a hundred times! I really wanted Christmas chicks, as my grandchildren would be here. Put the eggs in on Sat. Dec 3rd... first chick hatched at 12:20am on Christmas...
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    Turning on the sprinkler...

    It wasn't a super hot day, but I had the sprinkler on the lawn, and just a corner of the chicken run was getting sprinkled. My little hens seemed to like it... it wasn't much water, but they would go scratch around in the mud. Didn't seem to bother them at all. They are 3 1/2 months old and...
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    Montana Newbie...

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I'm new to chickens. About 3 1/2 months ago my daughter and grandson decided that I needed chickens. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? They brought me 10 little baby chicks. However we had a little incident with our...
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