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    Molting or feather picking?

    Great tips from everyone, thank you!! I checked her over last night and saw lots of pin feathers. No blood either, I was worried about the bullying. Didn't notice any mites or anything like that. Would you have those in the freezing temps anyway?
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    Molting or feather picking?

    I have three BO hens, all born April 2018 - so they're 10 months old. One of them (the smaller of the 3), has been losing a lot of feathers lately, mostly around her neck. She has gotten pretty bare on the neck. But she's losing them all over also. When she's out in the wind, you just see the...
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    First egg!!!

    LOL! It'll be eaten.
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    First egg!!!

    Happy day! First time chicken owner, and one of our 3 buff orphingtons laid her first egg!!! They are 22 weeks old, and whomever laid it did a perfect job and laid it in her nesting area right next to the ceramic egg I had in there as an example!! Proud chicken mama here!! :wee
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    Two bantam 6 week old chicks dead after moving outside

    Ooh excellent ideas!! Safe and I think the girls would love to play on it too. And yes, the run does have skirting all around it to keep predators out.
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    Two bantam 6 week old chicks dead after moving outside

    I did notice the orphingtons lunging and darting at any of the chicks. It seemed worse in the small brooder. Outside they just seemed to fly and run around. But being outside I don't really see them as often. Seemed really surprising for our bantam brahma... She was very feisty herself...
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    Two bantam 6 week old chicks dead after moving outside

    Not likely... It's got smaller openings on the lower half of the fence and has a skirt all around to keep anyrhing from digging in. Didn't see any blood on the first chick who died. The 2nd one today my hubby just thought she looked trampled.
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    Two bantam 6 week old chicks dead after moving outside

    Yes definitely are gnats. I've never experienced buffalo gnats?? Guess I don't know what they look like. We noticed a bunch of gnats hovering all around the coop. One of the BO's has a scratch on her neck and the gnats wouldn't leave her alone. Tonight we saw the suggestion on another site for...
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    Two bantam 6 week old chicks dead after moving outside

    Here's the 3 BO's remaining. They seem happy and eating well!
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    Two bantam 6 week old chicks dead after moving outside

    That's crazy! I had no idea they'd be so rough!!:confused:
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    Two bantam 6 week old chicks dead after moving outside

    Hubby says the one who died today was pretty flat... And it was the two slightly smaller ones (bantams). But it's not like they were tiny... They were six weeks. They all died outside of the coop in the big pen where they have plenty of room to run and fly. Are chickens that crazy and rough to...
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    Two bantam 6 week old chicks dead after moving outside

    Don't have any wood shavings in the coop. Previously (as in two days ago inside in the brooder), they had pine shavings from TSC.
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    Two bantam 6 week old chicks dead after moving outside

    The coop and run.
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    Two bantam 6 week old chicks dead after moving outside

    Great thoughts! Waterer is just an open top container that hangs on the fencing. It's been out a few days and I'm sure needs changed... Was planning on doing that today. The coop is an Eglu Cube... All plastic inside. Just leaving them in the main area, not opening them up to the laying area...
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    Two bantam 6 week old chicks dead after moving outside

    Day 2 outside....and our other bantam (buff Brahma) has died. Now only 3 full sized BO's are alive. They all seem perfect though. But, so did the others previously.. Hubby said the one today almost looked trampled. No blood found on her, but one of the BO's has a few spots on her neck where...
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