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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    I am so excited!!!! First eggs this morning!
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    Coop Drama!

    Coop drama! Have a mix of chickens: 6 Guinea fowl, 4 RIR hens, 1 RIR Cock, 3 Barred Rock Hens, 6 Leghorn hens and 4 Americunas, not sure of sex. For the most part, they all get along fine, with a few spats, but the little Americuna is getting bullied (they all do a bit, but the others handle...
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    When to let free range

    Hi, I am wondering when I can let my flock of 9 week olds out ti free range? Been in their coop and run 3 or 4 weeks I have guineas and chickens. Thus would be total free range, no fence on 4 acres. We do have outside dogs, but shock collars keep them away from where fowl would be Thanks
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    Unsure

    Exactly. I like tge cleaning and ease of it. What I am questioning is if the young birds are ingesting to much grit
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    post your chicken coop pictures here!

    Finally got coop n run done and the flock is happy happy. :) Still need some dirt work done around it, as we had to dig down to level everything. Coop is 6x8, run 8 x 10. I am enjoying these birds enormously!
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    Unsure

    Hi, there! We decided to use sand for litter in our coop and run. Eventually, the girls will free range, too. I have noticed in the last week that they are not eating as much. Wonder if they are not growing as rapidly now, and food intake needs are going down, or if they are taking in too...
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    Outside ok?

    Hi there! Got my chicks Easter and some are fully feathered out, mist are just about there. Been having day trips in a dog X Pen outside on sunny days. Coop and run was supposed to be done tiday, but frame for run not being delivered until Monday. So, my question is, if I put the xpen to the...
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    Free feed?

    Hi, my chicks are feathered out now, about 3 to 4 weeks old. Have free fed them 24/7 since coming home. Getting ready to move them to coop and run, but do they need feed and water available in the coop at night?
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    Raising "Aracuana" and Wyandotte Chicks

    Well I finally got my babies today. Suppose to be all pullets (fingers crossed). When I search for images of day old Aracuana chicks some of them look like mine. Some dont. Anyone that has had true Aracuanas have pictures of what One of my babies....
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    Please help with these Rhode Island Reds :)

    You mean the one to the right of the one with white in the upper right photo of the collage? Might take a few....and that is the pullet, so a girl. :)
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    Grief

    We are finishing the garage....this door leads to the dog yard.
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    Please help with these Rhode Island Reds :)

    Front view: Hi, this pretty little thing was in a straight run of Rhode Island Reds at Rural King. We got "her" along with a batch of straight runs and another one from the same run that I believe is a roo, because of tail feathers. There were several in the pullets of RIRs with some white...
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    Grief

    Thanks. :( we did go out and get more. Trying to want to enjoy them. Sigh
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    RIR w/white? Mutt?

    Well, that is disappointing! I am calling the store. I will have to post pics of the other two we got.
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    What is this?

    Noticed this on a few chick's feet....dried poop? Cannot feel good if it is....advice on removal, other than a warm washcloth?
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