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    What feeders and waterers do y'all use?

    :ya
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    Eye Infection or Eye worms !!!!

    That's right. The first video is bacteria and the second one is a parasite.
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    Eye Infection or Eye worms !!!!

    The eyes seem to be a vulnerable place for chickens, which leads into their respiratory system. A variety of parasites and bacteria can make a home in the eye area or within the tissues around the eyes. Infection in most cases requires some sort of respiratory or immune weakness. The variety of...
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    Integrating chicks into flock at 4 weeks old.

    Those are good points that should be considered for anyone trying this. I might just be lucky with my current flock where the hens and roos are not aggressive towards the chicks. Also, the chick's cage is attached to the yard at a place where they can't go very far from the opening when they run...
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    Integrating chicks into flock at 4 weeks old.

    I've been integrating mine at about a week old! As long is there is fresh straw and enough chicks (6 or so) that can huddle together, I connect their cage to the flock run with a tiny door. They tend to get stuck in the evening and huddle wherever they end up when the sun goes down, so you want...
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    Free Ranging?

    We let ours out only for a few hours each evening. They will establish a range (in terms of distance from their roosts) after two or three days based on how much time they are out. If we leave them out all day, they end up on our patio after two days and on the road after three days. I open the...
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    Introducing Baby Chicks

    A little opening lets the chicks venture into the chicken yard and back to safety if needed, where they have their own food and water. IMG_1038 by MarkLeavenworth posted Jul 20, 2017 at 9:16 AM
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    Something seem familiar about those chicks, Mr. Roo?
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    Bathing baby chicks?

    What a pretty bird!
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    Bathing baby chicks?

    I just now finished cleaning the last of a hatch. It was a malformation and assisted hatch, so it took a couple of extra stressful days to get the chick through OK. It had the sticky feathers mentioned in this thread from the primordial soup that remained because of the slight under...
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    Bathing baby chicks?

    For anyone else: I once had two sick chicks out of 25. They both had 'plugs' on their rears. I soaked their rear ends in warm water for 2-5 minute intervals, gradually wiping away and lifting at the edges with warm wet cloth, warm wet Q-tips, rinsing in the warm water, and continued soaking...
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    Stumped by a predator. Help!

    I've seen this go both ways. In the short term, nature gets displaced, then in the longer term nature comes back. You all back east and in the south have centuries of development. The population is much more dense than out here but so are the trees and creatures. When a building goes in, you get...
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    California - Northern

    I know many friends and neighbors who have made trips to the Bay Area to pick-up, deliver or trade creatures.
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    California - Northern

    San Francisco is not North, sorry. Napa, maybe. In the valley you could really go all the way to Merced, but maybe not including Merced. But on this BYC thread, Bay Area can count for Northern. Most people would say Monterey and Santa Cruz are 'Northern', but those ought to be considered part of...
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    Stumped by a predator. Help!

    I don't know if this applies to your area, but we had a similar predator. Months after it got much of our flock, I found a Bobcat skull and bones on the property next to a watering hole. It may have eaten poisoned rats. I was stumped and Bobcats were never considered a possibility because we...
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