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    Chicks won’t put themselves to bed!

    I have always had to pick up each chick individually and put it on the ramp and shoo it into the coop every night at bedtime. After a few days they usually get it except for one or two who continue to try to sleep outside. After a week they all are going in pretty regularly.
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    Older chickens killed younger pullets!!

    Yes. The coop is predator proof and they were in there at 9pm the night before. When I went out at 6am to let them out the babies were gone.
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    How long to keep them separated?

    I lost 2 8 week old chicks that had been in the coop with their mother and 2 other hens since they were hatched. At 8 weeks old the hens (I don’t know which ones as it happened at night or very early morning) killed both chicks and ate them. Nothing but some feathers left. The chick had just...
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    Older chickens killed younger pullets!!

    I had two clicks that had been in the big coop with the chickens since the day they were born. At 7 weeks I started letting the mama hen out with the rest of the chickens. After two days I noticed she would peck the pullets away from her but I wasn’t worried. Yesterday morning I went out and my...
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