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    Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

    Hi Everyone, Just be really busy this year. Tried my hand at getting baby chicks and raising them instead of buying 4-5 monthly birds. The babies are a bit of work but I am finding worth the effort. Surprised my grand-kids (7 of them) when they were over for Easter Saturday with my new...
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    For the new folks that haven't experienced a molt yet.

    Is there a particular time of year for them to molt? I have 3 hens 2 rhode island reds and an amercuana(?) . The amercuana (mary) molted in the fall Septemberish and now one of the reds is, she kinda looks like the one in the first pic in this thread and its December and cold, even for...
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    keeping chickens cool in summer heat

    Thanks all for the tips. We just got our 3 hens this week from a neighbor in the same neighborhood and were wondering how to cool them as today reached over 100 with a few more of them to go. We will probably look at adding misters for the girls and i like the frozen fruit and bottles ideas.
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    New to all this

    1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Very new, we got 3 hens yesterday (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 3 (3) What breeds do you have? 1 Americauna and 2 Rhode Island Red (4) How did you find out about BackYardChickens.com? google (5) What are some of...
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