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    Three hens dead in four days

    First step towards keeping chickens safe at night is locking them up. Predators are most active at night. If your chickens are outside unsecured then expect deaths to continue.
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    Help! Chick with bum problems

    Soaking in an Epsom salt bath has been shown to help eggbound hens. Maybe it could help in this case, too?
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    Hens pecking chicks

    My hens are free ranging and I’m not going to confine them to the run where the chicks are kept. That seems like a recipe for aggression. The chicks aren’t big enough to free range the yard with the hens yet. As I said, the chicks have been in sight and sound of the hens since day 1, so it’s not...
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    Will I ever get an egg??

    Your Australorp’s comb is very red, so she’ll probably start laying soon. The ameracauna’s comb looks pink though and I can’t see the Brahma’s comb. If the combs are pink and not red then they aren’t going to be laying yet. Even then it could be awhile. My SLWs had red combs and wattles for a...
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    Hens pecking chicks

    I have 5 SLW hens and 3 GLW chicks about 5 weeks old. Chicks have been housed in sight and sound of the hens but physically separated so the hens don’t hurt them. I’m starting to introduced the hens to the chicks and the two lowest ranking hens peck the chicks each time I try to introduced them...
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    Question about chick feed

    My boyfriend already bought the finisher feed. I just wanted to know if it was safe or not to give to chicks. You answered that, so thank you.
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    Question about chick feed

    I have chicks around 5 weeks old who are on grower feed specified for chicks up to 6 weeks old that they have just about finished. My boyfriend came home with a bag of finisher feed specified for chicks 10-18 weeks. Is it okay to feed them this even though they aren’t 10 weeks yet? I don’t know...
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    Duckies in a bath tub

    :love:pop Would love to see a video of them paddling around in the tub!
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    Hello

    I admire your determination to keep raising chickens after losing so many to start with! Welcome to the community.
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    Introducing new chicks to an established flock

    I got 3 GLW chicks last month that are about 5 weeks old now that will need to integrate into the existing flock of SLW hens. We brood them in the hen’s “coop” which is located inside the run. I put quotes around “coop” because the hens never used it for roosting preferring to instead sleep on...
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    For those who free range

    I’ve heard silkie roos are very nice and will even look after chicks if you have them! I have no experience with that myself, just paraphrasing what I’ve seen posted around here.
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    Chick feathering related to temp?

    That’s what I thought made sense biologically as well, but I’m no chicken expert. I just kept seeing the feathering/temp thing around the internet so thought I’d ask here if it was true or if I was just seeing something coincidental.
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    For those who free range

    Lol, well sometimes you get roosters that hate people. Eat them and get another!
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    Quiet Stealth Chicken Coop

    This. :goodpost: Thankfully the OP is only a teenager and can keep that in mind when he grows up and moves out. Nothing worse than planting your roots somewhere as an adult and realizing later that you want chickens but can’t have them. HOAs are the worst.
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    For those who free range

    That’s probably the best way to keep free ranging hens safe. It’s a roosters job to protect his girls even if it means his death. I can’t wait to get out of the city where I can have roosters.
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