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    Integrating chickens

    Sorry if I double posted!! I was at work using my phone and Im terrible at technology !!!!
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    Integrating chickens

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    Integrating chickens

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    Integrating chickens

    Thanks for trying to help me. I have 2 orpingtons, 1 saphier & 1 banty 6 months old in one pen. I have 3 americanas and 2 sapphires 6 months old in another pen. One Americans in another pen. She was being picked on by the others so she is by herself. She doesn't close her beak all the way I...
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    Integrating chickens

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    Integrating chickens

    I have 9 of the 6 months olds. They have been living 4 in one pen 2 orpingtons, 1 Sapphire and 1 silky. Next to that pen was 5. 3 americanas and 2 sapphires. They pecked one of the americanas feathers out of her lower back so I put her in a place of her own but she's healed up now. She does have...
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    Integrating chickens

    Hi, I have 6 month old chicks, 2 year old chickens,and 8 month old chickens and a 2 year old rooster . I am wanting to put all into 2 coop. Would they do ok if I put them all in the coop at sundown so they would have the night together and wake up together. They will be locked in the coop for a...
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    Buff Clucks supplement

    I am wondering if anyone is using Buff Clucks herbal supplement. I want to use it but it is very expensive so I was wondering if it's really worth the money. Thanks !!
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    Hen pulling her own feathers

    I have a hen in a cage by her self. I isolated her to get her feathers to grow back in on her back close to her tail. They have not grown back and it's been a few months. Last week I noticed a few feathers in her cage. Now today there are a lot of feathers so she has to be doing it to herself...
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    Fall chicks in Montana

    Hi, my chicks are 10 weeks old. Americanas, buff orpingtons, saphieres and one home hatched silkie the same age. We live in Montana and the temps are low 30s and 20s . When could they go out to the coop ? Thanks for any advice.
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    Pros & cons of heat panels

    I live in the mountains of Montana with very cold winters. I'm trying to get my coop insulated but my son is very busy. I was thinking of getting a heat panel. I would like some prod & cons on them. The coop has high a ceiling.with kinda high roosting bars. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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    Rooster molt ?

    He's not laying down that iv seen. He seems ok. The redness had me worried. I got some all flock that's 20 percent protein. And am in the process of switching them to it. Do you know of a good brand of poultry dust I could get ? Thank you for your advice!! 😊
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    Rooster molt ?

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    Rooster molt ?

    Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me. I noticed my rooster looked like the girls might have pulled some feathers off him. I picked him up and I turned him on his back. The inside of his legs are missing feathers & I can see where he's getting new ones. The thing is he has like bright red round...
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    Not eating and not laying

    Yes, he was perfectly fine. The night before he was on the roost with the girls. I petted him and said good night. The next morning I found what I thought was one of my girls dead in the nesting box. Turned out to be my sweet Abraham. He was already stiff. But he did not seem off to me. So I...
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