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    What to do after a baby chick hatches in the flock....

    No, I moved her. It was under her and already dead, when I moved it, she started eating at the yoke. This is my fault for being impatient and miss reading what people were doing. We had eggs she had been sitting on. She's been broody waaay longer than they are supposed to be. Well past 21 days...
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    What to do after a baby chick hatches in the flock....

    Well, never mind. It didn't work out. This has been a sucky year for us with the chickens.
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    What to do after a baby chick hatches in the flock....

    Hey guys, so we have a Buff Orpingtons that went broody a while back. She's been a bit broody longer than normal, but we let her be because we bought hatching eggs online. 6 Buff Orpington eggs to be specific. Well, one is viable. The other 5.. not so much. We had them in an incubator until...
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    Free range unattended?

    I have full-size Buff's who are like 7lbs a piece and there is a large Osprey that still flys over checking them out from time to time. One time it made a very low pass while I was in the yard I've never seen one so close. I could have touched it. I dunno if it was going for a kill, but it flew...
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    Second Buff Orpington Randomly Dead

    Maybe I'll get a coop cam. I didn't refrigerate the body. Although I thought about it. I had not buried her yet, but maybe I'll cut her open while the girls are at school. They're attached to their chickens. I'm gonna remove all their bedding, powerwash the coop, do all that today, change out...
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    Second Buff Orpington Randomly Dead

    The first picture was of them the other day, it was 87, they probably were panting but that's the middle of the yard. They have a lot of access to shade on all the sides, are often in the bushes and we actually keep water outside the coop area as well as in it. Last year we actually ran a box...
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    Second Buff Orpington Randomly Dead

    I clarified that not every day, a few times a week maybe. And usually once at that.
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    Second Buff Orpington Randomly Dead

    Kinda squishy actually. I think that's just the camera on her legs. Otherwise, all my birds have skinny legs... 🤔 They get feed soy & corn-free Small Pet Select layer feed. The most common treats are these mealworms. Semi-often. Usually, though I throw a handful when they are free-ranging to...
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    Chickens crying at night?

    Chickens also coming off the nonstop heat lamp have a panic session and literally are afraid of the dark for what seems like a week. When mine were getting big we moved them to the coop, and as the sun went down, even though they were locked in, they'd all fly up to the vents and hang out in the...
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    Second Buff Orpington Randomly Dead

    I'm now concerned. So, about a little over a month ago, one of our Buff Orpingtons died randomly after she was out ranging with the flock and I had put them away back in their run and coop. She had always been a weird one. She was the last one to lay, and took longer than everyone else to...
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    My chicks are crazy scared of me.

    I worked with them the past few weeks to associate people with food. They're all used to being picked up now. And not having freak-out sessions. I think one the big differences is our first batch we got literally the day after they were hatched at the hatchery and this batch was a few weeks...
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    My chicks are crazy scared of me.

    We had one of our chickens in our flock die. So we decided to get 3 new baby buff Orpingtons to go with our remaining 5. But these ones came from a different breeder and the same thing as you described. They were also a bit older. And they totally freak out all the time. I find it odd for the...
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    Cluck & Chirp

    Oddly, I would have assumed Google would have this answer. But not really.... My chicks are in their 11th week. And some are chirping, some are clucking. Some struggle to chirp and make weird noises. So, why is it that chickens can't chirp after a certain age and start clucking? Like teenagers...
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    Run Flooring Recommendations?

    So, the area where I placed my Coop & Run used to be a raised planter bed. I shoveled a lot of dirt. But, right now the run is just straight dirt. It's pretty dry here in Idaho. But I don't want it to be a complete mess. I thought about seeding, but that takes WAAAAAY to long. Any...
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    UrbanMike's No Idea What I'm Doing Coop & Run

    Yeah..... I think that might need to be redone. Luckily I have lots of logs and wood. These ladies are afraid of the dark. Like clockwork, they start crying at sunset and they all make their way to the top of the coop. To sit against the windows, which are barely ledges. :idunno Sigh. It's...
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