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    To: The Chickens Love, The Dog (Project is still in the works 4-29-10) Approx cost of building doghouse from scratch is planned. We designed this for 2-6 chickens based on the following "rule of thumbs." Roost: 6-10 inches of space per bird. Nest boxes: 1 nest box per 4-6 hens. Space: 1...
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    Wyandottes? EEs? 2 week olds unknown breeds.

    Well we stopped by the feed store today and I checked out their chicks... they had a bunch of RIR's about the same age as ours, and it looked like they had stolen our chicks! I have had RIR's before but for some reason it never clicked that they looked like our chicks had LOL (They change so...
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    Dual-Purpose White Egg Layer

    I did find one place that sells dorking chicks... in many different colors here:http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/catalog/chickens.html#dorkings You can also order them from here: http://yellowhousefarmnh.com/content/508 but it's pick up only and they're in NH Lots of hatcheries have...
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    Dual-Purpose White Egg Layer

    Quote: I actually wanted white Dorkings for that reason, they're just hard to come by most hatcheries have the silver-gray only and we haven't had a lot of luck with our incubator... I found someone who lives only an hour away that sells hatching eggs on ebay but I can't contact her about...
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    Wyandottes? EEs? 2 week olds unknown breeds.

    Quote: I've got 5 birds posted LOL unless the last 2 are the same breed
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    Wyandottes? EEs? 2 week olds unknown breeds.

    I bought a straight run mix from Ideal-poultry... already posted once but only got a couple of breeds ID'd I didn't post those guys here (and I didn't have comb descriptions) I'm hoping now that they are older and I took more pictures and uploaded them here that I might be able to get more of...
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    OH NO! Do my chicks have mites? What do i do???

    I could take them out for a romp, but I'll wait till they've got all their feathers in LOL They do have some dirt in the brooder now to practice dust bathing & for grit. I'm thinking that it is just growth and looking raggedy. I can't think of why else it wouldn't be spread to all of the chicks...
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    OH NO! Do my chicks have mites? What do i do???

    @ wenlo I hope BA stands for black australorp. I posted in another forum (what are these buggers) trying to ID the breeds we got, and the general consensus seems to be that the black ones are australorps! @ ddawn & others with brooder questions No, it is not a wire cage. It is one of those...
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    OH NO! Do my chicks have mites? What do i do???

    @kittymomma Okay, well I'm thinking I'm probably just overly concerned since I haven't seen this before. I looked pretty close at all the birds and it doesn't look like any of my yellow ones are having this issue, so maybe it's something peculiar to the black breed ??? I'll continue keeping an...
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    OH NO! Do my chicks have mites? What do i do???

    Quote: I thought maybe they brought the mites home from the hatchery or somehow we brought some from the feedstore when we brought home their feed or ???. They're in a large rabbit? cage, it's something like 4ft x 2ft it has 2 heat lamps, 1 on either end but they are well dispersed along the...
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    OH NO! Do my chicks have mites? What do i do???

    Quote: On the floor, they have a small ladder in the brooder, but they don't quite have the balance or the desire it seems to roost yet.
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    OH NO! Do my chicks have mites? What do i do???

    Quote: Put it in an old sock and dust them that way? I still don't understand... do you beat them with the sock? doesn't that still put dust in the air? Do you just sprinkle it on their backs and that is what they call "dusting"??? (Okay I don't mean BEAT them with a sock... I'm laughing so...
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    OH NO! Do my chicks have mites? What do i do???

    Okay, maybe it is the feather thing. He does show signs of his adult feathers starting on his back... Most of the other chicks seem just fine with only a couple having thin spots.... If it was some sort of parasite I suppose they'd all be showing more symptoms of it since they've all been...
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    OH NO! Do my chicks have mites? What do i do???

    They'll be 2 weeks on Tuesday (so 12 days old?) The little guy in the picture is not the smallest chick in the bunch but he is on the smaller side. We have a mixed set of chicks (same age) and all the yellow/brown ones are about an ounce heavier than the black chicks. The one in the photo is...
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    OH NO! Do my chicks have mites? What do i do???

    Just seems weird a picking problem would decimate the feathers on the little guys chest as well. I haven't noticed them picking at each other and I've been trying to keep my eye on them often to be sure, but he doesn't seem to have any wounds and I haven't actually seen anyone picking at him. I...
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