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    Help--need advice--baby chicks and afternoon heat!!!!

    I just got back from checking them again, and it was 104 in the brooder--even without the heat light turned on! I got scared for them, so I gathered the chicks into my "emergency brooder" (a plastic tub) and brought them into the house. I'm thinking of asking my husband to move their big...
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    Help--need advice--baby chicks and afternoon heat!!!!

    I've got 11 chicks that are 10 days old in a brooder in my garage. Today and yesterday, it's gotten entirely too hot. It's 98 outside, and the brooder thermometer is reading right around 100. I have been turning off the brooder light during the day, and yesterday I got worried and brought my...
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    Was it a raccoon??

    I've got a group of guineas--three are 10 weeks old, and seven (well, now six ) are 8 weeks old. I am keeping them in a coop while they're still little. Anyway, I went out this morning to check on them, and I found one laying dead near the door of the coop! It seemed whole (not touching it...
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    Lost a chick this morning--trying to figure out what happened...

    Hi Everyone, I got a shipment of chicks yesterday. I had ordered them back in June and had no idea it would be so abnormally hot when they shipped--but they all arrived safely and all seemed okay all day yesterday. They have all been having some watery poops, but I understand that it can be...
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    Something got my chicks last night...every single one of them....

    This is (was) the first time I've tried raising chickens. I had 17 babies, about a month old, EEs and Dominiques. Because of the intense heat, I had moved them to our coop (it came with the house we moved into last winter) a week or two ago. I ran the brooder light at night to make sure they...
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    Newbie Needs Advice!!

    Thanks for the responses! My babies are doing well today, and now that I know what to expect at night, I'm not as nervous anymore. I've got a much better idea now of where everything needs to be, and the chicks are really good about moving where they are most comfortable. I think it's just...
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    Newbie Needs Advice!!

    Hi! I picked up my babies from the post office yesterday morning! I have a total of 17 (I only ordered 15, but got extras!) in a homemade brooder. I'm keeping them in a quiet corner of my garage until they're big enough to go to the coop. My problem is with temperature control. I have a...
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    New chicken mama from Missouri.

    Hi Jaime! Hello from another homeschooling mom in MO! It's great to meet you!
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    Hello from the Missouri Ozarks!

    HI!! My name is Lori, and I live in the far SW corner of Missouri. This past winter, my family moved to a house that had plenty of room--and a ready-to-use chicken coop! After a lot of reading and research, we are anxiously awaiting our first little babies to arrive from the hatchery next...
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