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    18 week gold star possibly egg bound

    Hi, this is my first time raising chickens. I have 15 hens, a mix of all large breed birds. They are all about 18 weeks old. I got them from a local hatchery in the mail as day olds. One of my 3 red sex links started laying about 2 weeks ago, now I have 3 laying, not sure which are the...
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    Fermented Feed Questions

    Hi Blooie, I am looking to make one of these as well. My 15 pullets are 10 weeks old and are eating FF out of bowls right now. My question is how often do you clean the troughs? We are washing the bowls after every meal at this point. The chicks do walk through them but I almost never find...
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    Hi from Wisconsin chicken newbie

    Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! The Chicks are growing so fast it's so much fun watching them explore the world. We have had to move the girls out to the coop, but have blocked off a part of it for them and they have 2 250 watt heat lamps to snuggle under. Draft free and enough room for...
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    New coop flooded, now what?

    Thanks, That is what we are doing, but rain is expected tomorrow evening. I hope I can get them dry before then! I don't think I'll risk my dryer though! I appreciate the advice, I wish we had realized how bad the spring flooding would wick up from underneath the floor, although we did have 3...
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    Hi from Wisconsin chicken newbie

    Thanks, that picture was when they first came home, about 3 days old. I just had the lid off for pictures, we have 2 VERY interested house cats! It did become clear they couldn't stay in that bin long, I don't know if we even got 2 weeks out of it! They are now in a big U-Haul clothes hanging...
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    New coop flooded, now what?

    Hi, I am new to chickens and this site. My chicks are still in the house (3 weeks old) so everyone is dry and warm. We built our coop by partitioning off part of a large shed. The shed floor on that side was traffic bond, and we planned to do deep litter, but the spring flooding made us...
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    Hi from Wisconsin chicken newbie

    Hi, I am joining as my first chicks, now 3 weeks old are peeping away in the basement! I have 3 each of australorps, gold star, silver laced Wyandotte, barred Plymouth rock, and Easter eggers. I live in SE Wisconsin, so it isn't warm enough to move them outside yet, but they are growing so...
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