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    Feeding a mixed-age, newly integrated flock (layers with 9 week olds!)

    Hi friends! We've done this before, but it's been a while: We're moving our four 9 week olds out of their cramped basement brooder into the main outdoor coop this weekend, and are trying to remember what to do about the feed. The big babies are still on their medicated starter, and obviously...
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    Henhouse Interior

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  3. Coop Run Interior

    Coop Run Interior

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  4. Built-in Supply Storage

    Built-in Supply Storage

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    Built-in Supply Storage

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  6. built-in storage beneath egg boxes

    built-in storage beneath egg boxes

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    Coop utility and storage area

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  8. First Ladies Club

    First Ladies Club

    We downloaded plans from thegardencoop.com and built our own coop off the back of our garage during spring break... the First Ladies (Dolley and Abigail - the two "Martha" candidates turned out to be roosters - and Princess Leia) moved into the coop a month ago, and seem to enjoy their new digs...
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    2 day old with leg issue... help!

    Our little one unfortunately didn't make it. She stayed smaller, weaker than the others, as it was hard to get to food/water, and se kept getting bumped and run over by the others. I tried to isolate her in a half-shoebox in the brooder, with her own food and water; she got very upset when...
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    2 day old with leg issue... help!

    Yeah, I read quite a bit about spraddle leg, but my little one seems not to have a "directional" problem. The leg is normally jointed and moves in the shapes and directions that it should, her left leg is just favored to the point of not using it as much, or at all. She folds it up under her...
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    2 day old with leg issue... help!

    Weird question, but what is the breed of this chick, and where was she hatched? I have been reading a bit about how some illnesses/deficiencies in the laying mother hen can sometimes show up as problems in the chicks, too. Perhaps if a laying stock at the hatchery is ill/nutrition-vitamin...
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    2 day old with leg issue... help!

    We're having the very same issue with a 6-day old chick, too! Anyone with any advice, please reply. A silver-laced wyandotte chick, she's the same age as 3 other very perky brooder-mates, and already noticeably smaller. She still eats and drinks when given the chance (I've been...
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    Injured baby chick. Need advise.

    Thanks for the encouragement and advice - our small brood of four hatched Sunday night, shipped Monday and arrived Wednesday. All was happy and bright until this afternoon, and one began to lay about, breathing heavily, and favoring her left leg to the point of not using the right side to stand...
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