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    Short and missing down on newborn chick

    I hatched out a black Whiting True Blue 3 weeks ago that clearly had the slow feathering gene and it did not affect their down length at all. My clubbed chick is a fully feathered mini hen now. No more bald patches.
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    BROODER thread! Post pics of your brooders!

    17 days
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    Short and missing down on newborn chick

    Now at 4 weeks she’s almost fully feathered except under her wings
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    BROODER thread! Post pics of your brooders!

    I’ve been using things I have on hand… a large appliance box, a tack trunk with top replaced with screening, and now a tent. Tents are cheap, much larger than totes and well ventilated. I’m very happy with this one! It’s a pop up model so very sturdy even though it isn’t staked down. The box...
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    Feeding chickens neocardina shrimp

    Red cherry shrimp are about the size of a meal worm and sell for $5.00 EACH. It’s one heck of an expensive treat.
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    Light Cycle in Brooder?

    This is what I do! I have Wiz smart bulbs in the room with the brooder and I put them on the 30 minute sunset dimmer mode they tuck themselves in. One night I had the lights off but there are windows in there and the sun set around 6. I usually turn the lights off at 8 or 9. They were not...
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    Feeding chickens neocardina shrimp

    Ship them!
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    Anyone ever try making a chicken waterer as a fountain using a medium capacity aquarium filter?

    Did you make it? I was thinking the new internal style filters would make for an easy fountain build. They draw from the bottom and create the same waterfall.
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    Feeding chickens neocardina shrimp

    Those shrimp are expensive!! Make a Craigslist or Reddit post. Every 5 sold should net you a huge bag of soldier fly larvae treats!
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    February/March Grow-a-long

    My crew is outgrowing their indoor brooder so I put them in the garage in a tent with a flat panel heater (they’ve been under a ceramic bulb). I had to herd them under it to get them to understand where the warmth was. They played all afternoon taking long warm up breaks on their own. I thought...
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    Outgrowing the Tote

    I just put my 2 week old chicks in a tent! It has great ventilation and they can’t hop out. I had to teach them to use a brooder plate but they figured it out. I was going to use a typical pole style tent I’ve had for 20 years but I had this pop up tent I got for the kids and it’s too small...
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    Nipple waters vs. Regular waters

    Vertical nipples don’t have a spring. Touch them with any pressure and they will drip down freely into the chicks beak. Horizontal nipples have a spring to keep tension and it can be very stiff. They also aren’t attached above eye level so they don’t run down into the beak. I showed the bottle...
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    Need a better waterer

    Once you go nipple you won’t go back! You can use as large a bottle or bucket as you like and not have to refill for days!
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    Short and missing down on newborn chick

    Did she eventually grow normal down under her outer feathers?
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    Short and missing down on newborn chick

    She’s doing great! Her size and feather development is on par with her siblings. Look at that tail 😂 She gets cold faster though. I took them outside to peck around for a 15 minutes or so and she got cold and snuggled under my chin for half of it. 16 days old.
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