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    Returning wounded chick to coop

    Short version: Any advice on returning a chick treated for a wound to his buddies? Does it need to be completely healed - it's been blued with food coloring - before he goes back, or should I try to get him back in as soon as possible to avoid a rejection issue from keeping him out too long? How...
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    putting 3 week old chicks outside?

    Infrared laser temperature gun?! That's a thing?! That's awesome! You've gone a long way to alleviate my concerns about moving them outside - it's no where near that cold here. I think we'll be fine. Thanks so much for sharing
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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

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    Fermented feed for chicks

    Thanks everyone
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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    So...no then? I just wanted to make sure, because I've heard they need grit if you feed ANYTHING other than starter or egg. Thanks!
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    Fermented feed for chicks

    Anyone?
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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    Sorry, I mean, if you use chick starter to make the fermented feed, do you need to provide grit with it? I have some fermented feed ready to go, but I wanted to make sure first - and I don't have any grit.
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    putting 3 week old chicks outside?

    Just wondering how your chicks made out, and what you ended up doing up for draft-proofing/heating. Since mine are in the basement I'd like to get them outside as soon as possible, because I'm not really crazy about having the house smell like a hamster cage. I think it still gets down to about...
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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    Do you need to feed grit with the fermented starter?
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    Fermented feed for chicks

    Hi - got a few questions about using fermented feed: 1. I've head of people fermenting regular chick starter - has anyone here tried this, did the chicks like it? 2. Should they be a certain age before trying it? 3. Do you need to add grit? (Since it's made from the starter, I wouldn't...
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    Lockdown Humidity Help Needed

    Still nothing. Every once in while I hear (or imagine that I hear) some unfamiliar noise at night and I leap right out of bed and race to the incubator and - big fat nothing. So it's Day 23. Stupid home springing eternal ...
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    Lockdown Humidity Help Needed

    So...Day 21...I should be at least hearing peeping by now, right? Wow. How amazingly disappointing.
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    Lockdown Humidity Help Needed

    Well yes, that and the fact that the thermostat could be wrong too for all I know! It's quite stressful. I think it may have been given to her - from what I know she hadn't actually used it yet.
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    Lockdown Humidity Help Needed

    Well, the same, but thanks for asking. I tried to talk to the owner of the incubator and couldn't get her to understand the problem - I guess she was under the impression that the humidity is supposed to go down for lockdown. So that wasn't much help. I keep thinking I should build a little nest...
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    Lockdown Humidity Help Needed

    Thank you Amy! It's reassuring, except it makes me worried if the thermometer is out too. I wish I'd known about calibrating BEFORE I started incubating!
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