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    Yellow around vent.

    I have a dark brown with the same exact thing happening around her vent, a yellow coloring just like your picture. Did you ever figure this out? Did it go away?
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    Need Advice - Haching Eggs 2 Ways

    First time hatching eggs. We have 11 large fowl eggs in and incubator and we have 6 large fowl eggs under our broody Silkie. We have multiple coops so we plan to let our Silkie and her chicks have a 6' x 4' coop all to themselves. I am assuming I cannot stick the other 11 chicks from the...
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    Pullet had a prolapse that corrected itself within a few minutes...should I be worried.

    I have a pullet that started laying about 12 days ago. She has laid about 6 eggs, everyone of them in the nesting box...one every other day. Yesterday she was due to lay but...no egg. Today she laid this in the pole barn on the floor. It appears to be a double yoke with a skin on it....no...
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    Will Corid work? Did I catch it in time? What next?

    I should mention too that they have been on medicated chick starter since hatch.
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    Coccidiosis? How long should I wait?

    Oh Wow...I thought with Corid they would fully recover them if caught in time??? I have no way of knowing which one did it. There was only one dropping that looked suspicious and everyone is acting healthy. They coop is brand new with new shavings....less than 48 hours old. I use ACV in...
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    Coccidiosis? How long should I wait?

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    Will Corid work? Did I catch it in time? What next?

    Went out to the coop to check on my 5 week old girls....it was only their 3rd night in the coop so 'Mama Hen' is still nervous LOL. I noticed under the roost, on a wood board, a pile of what looked like snot and spit (white and clear slime) with 4 orangish red clots. I immediately thing thing...
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    Do I have to lock them in the coop for days??

    They are almost 6 weeks. Seemed to be fully feathered. I am a new chicken Mama so I am not an expert LOL. We did close up the coop last night and I plan to keep it closed and not let them out until the temps reach 55 degrees (that was the minimum temperature we would let them go out in when...
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    Do I have to lock them in the coop for days??

    I have a coop with an attached run. My chicks...now pullets...started in a brooder in the house, then moved to a larger brooder in the garage and for the last 2 weeks, if the weather was nice, I let them in the run during the day and back in the garage brooder at night. Last night they stayed...
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    Keeping Critters out of your Coop

    What kind of latch/lock systems do you all use to keep critters out of your coop? Looking for ideas. Leaning toward hasp latch with a carabineer (the kind with the added twist mechanism). I have read that raccoons can still get through this. I am in northwest Indiana.
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    Barnevelder or Speckled Sussex......which to keep?

    Mixed bag......Buff Braham, Buff Orpington, RIR, Golden Wyandotte, Silver Wyandotte, 2 Silkies and a Bantam Cochin.
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    Feed/water....in the coop or out?

    Okay so to leave the girls plenty of room in the coop I would like to leave the feed and water in the run during the Spring, Summer and Fall. I know people do this but how do you keep the mice or other small critters from eating the feed it if sits out all night?
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    Barnevelder or Speckled Sussex......which to keep?

    I have decided to let one of my pullets go to to a friends flock to ease space in my coop. I am going to either let her have the Barnevelder or the Speckled Sussex......anyone have thoughts on which would be a better bird for me to keep? Thanks!
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    How much trouble am I in?

    Thank you for everyone's feedback. I have decided to let one of my pullets go to to a friends flock to ease space in my coop. I am going to either let her have the Barnevelder or the Speckled Sussex......anyone have thoughts on which would be a better bird for me to keep? This will have me...
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    How much trouble am I in?

    My coop is 7' x 4'...sloped roof 3.5' tall on one side and 5.5' tall on the other. My attached run is 12' x 12. Chickens will not be free range due to hawks but we do have a 10' x 5' chicken tractor, so they can get out to other places in yard. We are in Northwest Indiana so we do have cold...
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