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    Ants In coop.

    Bedding
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    Ants In coop.

    Is it OK to sprinkle the baking powder in the coop where they sleep? We are trying the deep betting method and with all of the rain lately I find ants also
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    Losing Feathers

    Thank you @Lady of McCamley I caught them cleaning their feathers and snapped a couple of photos… I agree on the heat and molting. I tried to order diametaceous Earth on Amazon and a message came up saying it could not ship to my house. I was going to try and mix that into the dirt and their coop.
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    2 yellow and 2 grey chicks 🐥

    I could totally see them growing up to look like your picture! Not so sure about the calm and laid-back though 😂 they are certainly entertaining.
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    2 yellow and 2 grey chicks 🐥

    @3KillerBs looks like the blue ones have white under their feet! What does that mean?
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    2 yellow and 2 grey chicks 🐥

    Thank you so much! This forum is amazing and ya’ll answer so quickly. I cannot wait to look these up and check them out 🥰 Thinking we may have eggs around September/October.
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    2 yellow and 2 grey chicks 🐥

    Thank you Mary! The 3 kids named one each and my husband the fourth, I gave up my right because I did not want five 😅 we have thought about calling them because you would think they would have a record of what birds they order on that date but but good point about asking them which hatchery they...
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    2 yellow and 2 grey chicks 🐥

    Oh cool! And thank you for the tip, I am still learning all of this lingo 😉 they are already in their coop but I will totally check their feet tomorrow 🤩
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    2 yellow and 2 grey chicks 🐥

    We purchased our four chicks on May 30 from a local Texas Tractor Supply Co. We chose two from a tub of yellow chicks and two from a type of grey chicks. They did not know the breeds or how old they were?! When friends asked what we got, we said “two yellow and two grey” 😊 Through much research...
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    Losing Feathers

    Thank you both so much, I feel better as they are certainly not naked! The molting makes sense. I do have a fear of mites as I saw a video one time and they look horrible to get rid of so I have been pulling loose feathers out of the coop, giving them plenty of dust bath areas, and medicated...
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    Losing Feathers

    Is it common for chickens to lose their feathers in the summer? It is hot here in Texas and they seem healthy otherwise but they all are dropping the small fluffy feathers as well as the larger ones from their wings. They are 12-13 weeks old.
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    Happy Newbie

    Hi y’all from Texas (west of Houston)! We are very new to raising chickens in our backyard and have been researching mostly on YouTube but now that we have 4 baby chicks we bought from TSC on May 29, we have more specific questions and topics to research which is how I found BYC! It will be so...
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