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    Help our shipment of chicks not doing well.

    Thanks for the suggestions!! 90% were doa I have a couple that may make it but still unsure. I plan on calling the hatchery Monday. They should really have better protacals in place when shipping animals! This all could have been avoided if they would have shipped them to the right place or at...
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    Help our shipment of chicks not doing well.

    We have ordered Chicks from a hatchery many different times (we live no where close to a hatchery) we've always had very good luck with never having any die on us. This time has been horrible!! First they sat at the usps for 18hrs before they then shipped them to the wrong location. When I...
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    Keeping Chickens Free Range

    Yep but it didn't work so this weekend we took the nesting boxes out and put a board in the corner of the coop with hay on top and under it to see if they will lay there. It's kinda like what they are used to laying in in the barn where they keep goin but shouldn't. Hoping this works!!:)
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    Keeping Chickens Free Range

    This is how we raise our chickens too. The only problem is gettin them to all nest in the same place! We have nesting boxes but they all refuse to lay in them. Instead they lay them in the hay in our barn. Half of them will lay in the nest of hay and the other half will lay in random spots some...
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