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Thanks. I assumed it was a rooster, but I thought it would be a good idea to confirm with people who know more about chickens than I do before we take it back.

This chicken is a Rhode Island Red and is about 3 months old.

I know they knock out food, today I realized how much food they have knocked out, it's quite a bit. :/ I'm going to try raising the feeder on some wood to make it harder for them to scratch at the feed. The chicks are eating, the feed has small pieces as well as big ones, I'm just concerned...

Thanks for the response! I will try crushing the feed a bit and a raised feeder and see what happens. If they still seem to still be eating a lot, then I'll just go with it. Thanks again!

I originally posted this in the 'Feeding & Watering Your Flock', but later thought that maybe it should have gone in this section (?). I'm not sure. I haven't gotten a response in the other forum section, but this section seems to move quicker than the other one and some opinions/advice would be...

I have three chicks that range from 2-4 weeks old and as of recently, they have been going through food really quickly, we bought a 5lb bag of chick starter last Saturday and it's about half gone as of today. In the first week I had them, they went through almost 1lb of feed in a week, so them...

Ok, so I've been looking at some tractor coop designs to get ready to build a coop for my three chicks. My question is could chicken wire be used as flooring for the part of the coop that houses the chickens? I see people using linoleum as flooring, but no chicken wire, why is that?

And thanks for being so welcoming! I am glad I joined and plan to stick around :)

Thanks :) And 4-H FTW! Go 4-H'ers!

I know I just posted a big whole long thread about an hour an a half ago, but my Frizzle chick, Scootaloo, just scared me twice. First, she went to pick at something in her feathers and her beak got stuck and she tried to break free by shaking her head, her getting stuck scared me so I picked...

Thanks to everyone who has replied :) I really appreciate the responses! And I feel at home here already with the quick response from you guys! :) Before I posted my OP, I thought I might sound really worried, tis why I asked Q7. I'm not really all that worried, I'm not freaking out or...