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    Introducing chicks to free range

    We have about 20 6 week-old chicks whom we got as day-olds. We raised them in an indoor brooder until about 4 weeks old and then they have spent the last 1.5-2wks in an outdoor enclosure. We are trying to decide the best age at which to begin letting them out just an hour or two before dusk...
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    Mysterious dead chick

    got up the morning to check on our 3 almost 4 week old chicks, one had passed. I see no obvious reason for it, vent was clean, we had vaxxed against coicoidosis, no diarrhea, no respiratory problems noted, just died it seems. She was sprawled out underneath the heat lamp. Temp is at about...
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