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    free year old healthy brood hen

    I have a Silver Wyandotte healthy brood hen that I would like to find a good home for in the Raleigh-Wake Forest, NC area. She was born Feb. 1, 2016. I have no rooster. She was broody for 21 days in April, and she's broody now.
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    Tell Me About Your Loner Chicken

    I have a loner chicken too. Or, at least, I think I do. She (at least, I think she's a "she") is 13 weeks old now and has begun to set herself apart from the other 5 chicks that she was raised with. This young bird is of the Welsummer breed. I have wondered if she could be a rooster, but...
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    When do Chicks Need a Roost

    My chicks started using a roost at one week. I made a simple one by taking some bamboo stakes from my garden and poking them through the side of the brood box. I inserted four pieces of bamboo laying them side-by-side. I think you could use small tree branches, wooden dowels, or even rounded...
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    Nipple watering

    Start the chicks as soon as possible on the hydrating bucket. I started my chicks at two weeks. For two days after introducing the watering nipples into the brooder, I continued to offer the original water source (inverted Mason jar in saucer-type dish). I watched the chicks to make sure that...
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    Nipple watering

    My chicks are 12 days old now, and every day since I picked them up from the hatchery they have "trashed" their water trough (one of the red plastic base units with an inverted mason jar) with pine shavings and poop. So, I decided to try to get them to use a homemade water dispenser. I took an...
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