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    10 chickies to sex! 7 weeks old :)

    i definitely agree with at least number 2!! he has wattles coming in, you can see on his chin :) upon closer inspection, 8 seems to be getting some wattles too!
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    10 chickies to sex! 7 weeks old :)

    i know one is a cockerel based on the wattles appearing! wanna see how close i am with my guesses :) thanks in advance for your insights!!
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    weaning off heat

    Thanks so much!! We turned off the heat at everyone’s suggestion, when the overnight temps were temporarily a bit higher than they had been. That was last week (as of tomorrow) and now as of tonight, they are in their big kid coop with their new roosting space!!! They seem very happy!! :)
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    weaning off heat

    I agree in the context of having a mother hen around but they have nothing for natural heat! I live in a pretty cold place that has significant temperature extremes and chickens are a pretty broad group of birds having different temperature tolerances. Also, my local bird population has already...
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    weaning off heat

    wow so all of these infographics i'm seeing online are wrong??? this is good to know lol. first time chicken mom, here. the overnights in august got VERY cold (5 celcius) right after weeks of heatwaves, so didn't remove the heat before now because i thought the shift from 25c to 5c would have...
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    weaning off heat

    hello!! i have 10 feathered out bantam ee chicks! they are still in a brooder but it’s been in the chicken coop outside since they were 3 weeks old. they are around 6 weeks now (hatched aug 10-12th from what the hatchery said). the lamp is still on in there at night and the temps on my...
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    sexing month-old bantam EEs :)

    some of my little ones are changing shape on their beaks!! not sure if this is just phylogeny, first-hatched trait, or sex trait!! all were hatched over the course of 2 days and they are mixed flock bantam EE (diff hens and roosters mating). does the beak bumpiness mean anything with respect to...
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    weird toe thing

    one of my little week-olds has this weird toe thing since i got it a few days ago! is it just poop? should i pull it off? should i give it a little soak and then pull it off? should i let it come off on its own? is there anything else i should be doing? thank you!!! :D ETA: bedding is puppy...
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    New Babies Plus A Question

    i feel you. i thought my chicks were dying. turns out they were just taking naps LOL. the anxiety!!!!
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    Play time!

    they're soooo beautiful!
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    New Babies Plus A Question

    maybe switch the bedding to a puppy pee pad with some pine shavings instead of wood chips? i am not an expert but perhaps its little toes are struggling to grip the ground with the wood chips LOL they're so pathetic <3
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    i got them!!!!! :D

    yaaas!!! i was supposed to get mille fleur bantams last year but the woman who had them had some racoons break into her chicken yard and so we didn't end up getting them :( so sad, as i LOVE mille fleurs! i'm pumped to add those in the future too! gonna look through your posts now so i can see...
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    i got them!!!!! :D

    after almost 2 years of working on our coop, we finally have it basically finished, and i bit the bullet and got 10 bantam easter eggers for my first ever chickens. we are thrilled and i'm excited to watch them grow and their feathers come in so i can choose their names <3 so far the dark one...
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    d'uccle gender

    Thank you so much :) I've been lurking that forum for a while before finally getting chickens because I want to be super ultra prepared lol. And lots of chicken podcasts the past couple of years too! I want them to be soooo happy and healthy!!
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    d'uccle gender

    hi!
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