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    My Coops

    Nice! I recently moved out of SE Louisiana. Moved about 30 miles north into Mississippi. 30 miles and 200 feet in elevation!
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    LED light bulbs, which, if any are best?

    I have this in my coop and LOVE it. Just bright enough for the birds to see and for me to see them. If it gets 5 or 6 hours of sun it seems to last all night. Looks like a stary sky in the coop. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00T1P632E/?tag=backy-20
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    My Coops

    Took a couple months, but I finally finished a couple of coops that I promised my wife. Still have to add a run to the right side of the breeder coop, but got a little time for that. Also finished up one of her coops for some of her laying hens. Since this picture I got the bottom enclosed with...
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    55 Flowery Sexing

    You look for blond down on back of the head, but sometimes it seems like it isn't quite that simple. Sometimes the head is colored but they have blond stripes on their back. I am sure to a trained eye it is easy. My eyes are NOT trained in this breed.
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    55 Flowery Sexing

    Cyrss, I'm new to this breed so I am not being argumentative, but they market this breed as being able to sex them as day old chicks. Maybe the accuracy increases the longer you wait?? Adding better individual pictures. I am keeping them all, so I am not in a rush to sex them. Just trying to...
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    55 Flowery Sexing

    Anybody?
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    Rooster or hen?

    Looks to me like you have eggs in your future, but hard to say for sure. The saddle feathers and legs look like hen a though.
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    55 Flowery Sexing

    This is my first go at hatching 55's. I am pretty sure I have 2 roos and 5 hens. All the ones we are holding I believe to be little girls. Thoughts? The little yellow ones are my two Olandsk Dwarfs. Love this little guys.
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    Wheaten Chicks??

    Thanks. These came from BCM eggs that I purchased. I can only assume these are recessive whites, but I don't really know. Seems like a high percentage. Of 17 I got 3, but there was another that didn't survive hatching that was also white. So 4 out of 18.
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    Wheaten Chicks??

    Out of 17 BCM eggs, I got 3 Wheatens. At least I assume that is what they are. I was hoping to sex them based on wing feather color, but at 17 days old they still have basically no color. Seems like the others I have seen have some black and/or fawn feathers by now. You can however see a...
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    Confine or continue free range?

    I have 100 acres of woods behind me. I know there are foxes. Probably cayots and everything else also. I am going to start figuring out a place to build a large pen. They have gotten way too adventurist over the last month.
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    Confine or continue free range?

    I have 6 hens that are right at the age to begin laying. I let them out of their 10x10 run at about 10am and they run for the woods at the back of my property, which is about a 150' distance. Once there I won't see them again until about 5pm and they are in the coop by 6:30. I am debating...
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    Mucus from nose and eyes

    I bought some pullets that were in very rough shape, but are now probably 20-22 weeks old and have been nursed back to a healthy flock except for 1. One of the hens has always been the smallest of the bunch, and still is (same age though). She has also always had a little sneeze or cough ever...
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    New Pullets look pretty horrible

    So my little birds have been on a high protein 24% feed for a couple weeks, and have been dusted for mites. As you can see, they look like different birds. They are now free ranging and returning to coop on their own. Thanks for all the great advice. Hopefully they continue to improve. They are...
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    New Pullets look pretty horrible

    They have a 10x10 dog kennel for a run. Will do. My wife will be in town today and I will have her stop by TSC and pick it up. Thanks.
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