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    Female Khaki Campbell sitting often

    She’s been doing this about a week now and I have been taking her eggs (I don’t think she is egg bound, but again, I’m not familiar with a duck’s reproduction like I am a chicken’s, so maybe there is something I’m missing). I also feed a mixture of layer pellets with black oil seeds and cracked...
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    Female Khaki Campbell sitting often

    I have a female khaki Campbell who’s is acting strange. She’s <1 year old and started laying a few weeks ago (I’d say 8 weeks). It’s now winter, snowy, and icey and I notice that she will walk a few feet then stop and sit down, get up walk then sit. When she walks she looks fine, but I can’t...
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    NH-Khaki Campbell Ducks and assorted hens

    I have 2 free drakes who need a new home. Both are 5 months old. 6 assorted hens about 2 years old. Hens are laying and extremely friendly, raised with children. I need to downsize my flock because I’m leaving for the winter and my S.O. will be left to care for the animals. I need to make...
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    How to make a sliding door?

    OH! I like the broom handle idea. That's great and so simple. Thanks!
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    How to make a sliding door?

    When I started on making the coop, I had planned on making a door that goes out into the run that slides up and down. A typical door. The run is going to be a dog run/kennel that is not easy to get into and out of once it is butted up to the coop (I'll change this eventually, but I'm out of...
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    Insulation & predator proofing ideas for my new coop? 3 Pics

    I think insulating it would prevent drafts, but if you insulate it looks like the insulation will get wet and mold when it rains. And what type of insulation would you use that your girls wouldn't peck at? Questions for the masses
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    Coop vs. tractor

    I've got my first few chicks in the brooder and they're quickly becoming chickens! I need to update my chicken coop and have been going through so many designs I just can't choose what would be the best looking/easiest to build/cheapest/best for our area (north Alabama). I've got it narrowed...
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    New chicks 'belly button'?

    I lost that little one this evening then we went to get dinner and when I got back, another one is wobbling, and very lethargic . What am I doing wrong!?! I got an egg and scrambled it, but they don't seem to want to have anything to do with it. I've given the new wobbly one sugar water and...
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    New chicks 'belly button'?

    Got it! Here's my wobbly chick
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    New chicks 'belly button'?

    When I went into the bedroom I thought I lost all my chicks last night! They were all plopped over. As I was nearing freaking out, they all started popping up and peeping! PHEW! The little wobbly one, not that one though, it just stayed there plopped over. I picked it up to see if it was...
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    New chicks 'belly button'?

    I called my husband who was still at home and had him check on everyone. He says that they're all alive. Better than dead! That's all the info I could pull from him though. I'll keep you all updated and post pictures tonight. I was VERY impressed with MyPetChicken. I ordered 8 chicks, they...
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    New chicks 'belly button'?

    Maybe I should have referred to it as the umbilical attachment point rather than the cuter 'belly button'?
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    New chicks 'belly button'?

    Good morning! I got the call from my P.O. this morning that I had a peeping box waiting for me I picked them up, got them home and loaded them into their new home. All 7 of the 8 seemed to be doing relatively well considering the fact it's sub-artic here in Alabama. There is 1 little one...
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    chick bedding

    I use straw in the coop right now so I have more than enough fresh bales to put in a brooder. Since I was planning on keeping them in the house the first few weeks I was looking for something less dusty than shavings and less smelly than straw (I find that if I don't clean out straw often...
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    chick bedding

    Hey guys, I'm going to bump this thread because I've got my first chicks coming in a few weeks. I use CareFresh bedding for my rabbit who is a house bunny. It's basically expensive recycled newspaper. It seems to work well absorption wise, the smell doesn't get bad if I change it once a...
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