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    Chicks beaks breaking off??

    Do you have hardware cloth covering something they have access to? I had a chick do this by catching her beak in hardware cloth. It’s like fingernail it grows back.
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    Are these silkies show quality?

    They are too young to tell the sex or if they are show potential. I know our 4H is pretty lenient than if it were APA/ABA in regards to standard of perfection, they are looking more for how the bird is conditioned and the child’s age appropriate knowledge of poultry care and the breed they...
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    Ended Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Maxi 24 EX Connect—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Entry#4 gray silkie chick
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    Ended Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Maxi 24 EX Connect—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    #3 silkies
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    Ended Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Maxi 24 EX Connect—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    #2 blue Ameraucana. move along, nothing to see here just a meeting of the minds.
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    Ended Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Maxi 24 EX Connect—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    #1 blue Ameraucana, hatching is hard work.
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    Ameraucana breeding questions / BBS between breeds?

    What would a BBS x lavender Ameraucana cross look like? When lavender and blue are bred together, Your lavender will never be the even continuous shade of light blue they are suppose to be by standard. They will have darker heads and sickle feathers and dark feather shafts that is a fault in the...
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    Chicks won’t put themselves to bed!

    I have had to put a small night light in for grow outs so if it gets dark they follow the light. I have used a small battery operated keychain light. I go in after dark to check on them and shut it off.
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    Brooder heat source?

    I purchased a sweeter heater a couple years ago and I love them so easy to clean, different sizes to accommodate your needs, I can see under them, really easy to move up as the chicks get older. I have used them in my coop brooder too, originally that why I bought my first one because the mama...
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    Keeping older chicks happy in brooder.

    I am in Northern NY, depending on where you are in NH your temps are about the same as mine (50-60's during day and 40's at night) or warmer. I would not hesitate to move 6 week old chicks into a draft free coop now. BUT you have not acclimated them to the cooler temps. I would start doing that...
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    Topic of the Week - Brooding and supplementing heat for chicks

    I guess I don’t really do anything “textbook”. I have never used a heat lamp. For years I used a modified mama hen heat pad. I used a wire shelving, adjustable legs and bungee the heating pad underneath. Then a couple years ago I bought a sweeter heater and never looked back. I like the ease of...
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    The AMERAUCANA thread

    That makes more sense, I forgot about splash wheaten. I have been researching what happens when lavender is breed into blue and my brain just went to how pastel looked like the lavender wheaten hackles look in the pictures I’ve seen.
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    The AMERAUCANA thread

    His color is off some, he is really light for a blue wheaten. Is it possible he has some self blue (lavender) in his background somewhere. The lightness of his gold areas and lack of lacing kind of look like he might. I’m not an expert maybe someone in one of the breed clubs with more experience...
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    Can I pick up my babies?

    We have been very hands on with all our chicks. My daughter was 4 when I started hatching my own chicks. She held and played with the chicks while I cleaned the brooder. I just taught her how to hold them correctly, wash hands after, and she had to talk quietly and be calm around them. In return...
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    Perennial garden

    I use sweet pdz granules on my roost boards. i was wondering can I take this straight off the boards ( manure mixed sweet pdz) and added it to flower beds in the fall on top of mulch after everything goes dormant? It is mostly hostas and ornamental shrubs. I’m in zone 4 northern ny my plants are...
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