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    Dead chick for no reason?

    im sorry for your loss. i know raising baby chicks is so very exiting, and when you find one has passed away its heartbreaking. the only thing we can assume is that it was just unlucky, and maybe had lots of unseen health issues (chickens dont want to show any signs of weakness so they dont end...
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    Sexing 5-6 week old chicks (or what breed?)

    1st one is a (very handsome) cockerel
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    Is it too cold to put my chicks outside?

    this is of couse if you have no electricity for an elecrtic heating pad (for clairifcation)
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    Is it too cold to put my chicks outside?

    ive heard of people using the diy heating pad using a sock and rice (for human) but putting it into the coop at night. you could also use whats called a snugglesafe, a tool used for orphan kittens to keep them warm for hours with only one heat up in the microwave. Ive never used a snugglesafe...
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    3 week old chicks attacking each other!

    what my grandparents always did is if there is a chick that is bloody and the blood is making the other chicks peck at it, is mix vicks vapor rub and red food coloring. dont put it on the wound, but like somewhere else. theyll peck it and then decide to never do that again becuase vicks vapor...
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    Is it too cold to put my chicks outside?

    as long as they all get along, they should be fine. honestly, its your call. what i did for the first few nights is puttem outside for the day and teach them where their "home" is, and then put them in there and shut the door to the run a little bit before sundown. Then check on them at sundown...
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    Normal to have 3 hatched and others without pips?

    try playing chicken noises? one of my friends a few weeks ago was hatching chicks for bio and he said he saw it in a video somewhere. (only one fully hatched out of 8 at this point). he played the chicken noises on repeat and left to go to two classes and by the time he got back, 2 more had...
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    Gasp! Could the feed store have made a mistake?!

    i have 2 balck australorp 5 week olds, she looks just like them!! of course, black chickens are hard to see what breed they are, but that could be a possiblity. (seriously, mine could be your girl's twins!)
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    crazy for corn

    ooo i should try that next! havent fed them any fruit yet! thank you for the idea!!
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    3 week old Roo ruling the roost

    hes so handsome! DEFENITLY a roo. around a year ago my brother was rasing chicks for a science project and 3 of them were roos, and they didnt have that big of a crown till 5 weeks! all of your baby chooks are so cute! (but your little roo is so pretty)
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    crazy for corn

    also, the one of my girls, Chad, will even jump higher than i even thought she could, just for corn! i think theyre addictied.
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    crazy for corn

    corn. thats it. my 5 week old chickens, they just go absoulutly insane for corn. like, they would sell their soul for corn. i made for them what i call "quarrentine corn-tea", and basically boil some water in a kettle, put some frozen sweet corn in a mug, and rinse it with the water, and drain...
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    Giant Silkie Project.

    good luck!
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    just wanted to share somthing adorable!

    So i have 6 chickens, all of them just turned 4 weeks old yesterday. We've had some "outside time" for a few hours on nice days (if i see any signs they are cold i immeadiatly take them back to the brooder.) On Easter, one of the chickies, Jackie, found a worm. (My friend who was over at the...
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    Crying Chicks, please help

    if they were older, id say just throw in some thawed frozen corn, but since their so little, thats not the best idea. Make sure they have fresh, CLEAN water (mine always like to alert me when theyve dirtied theirs up) a stick or two to roost on, (what i always do is pick them up and let them...
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