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    Easter eggers growth from chicks to adults

    Streetview, yours look like hens to me!
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    How to tell chickens apart??

    Keep an eye on the ties over time. As they grow and their legs get bigger you may need to remove them and put on new ones. That's why I like the open/twisted/spiral rings (I know there's a word for it, but I can't put my finger on it right now) - they've got stretch built into them.
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    How to catch a loose hen with 13 chicks?

    So glad you got them all!
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    Ramie chicks & how hot can they stand?

    Agreed about the heat lamp keeping them up all night. Also, mine were constantly running and darting and cheeping. Unless they sound like they're in distress it's likely normal.
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    OK to leave the windows open?

    Yes - windows are covered with hardware cloth. I was just worried about rain coming in. Thank you!
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    OK to leave the windows open?

    The chicks moved out to the big kids tonight. It's supposed to be very hot this week and I would like to leave the windows to the coop open to keep them cool and not have them over heat. However, we get a lot of afternoon thunderstorms. Is it okay to leave the windows open?
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    How to tell chickens apart??

    Oh, Raro! That makes me sad. :( Cute story, though!
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    How to tell chickens apart??

    I recently gave up trying to tell my two Barred Plymouth Rocks apart. I added a leg band to one of them and now I can tell who's who. :)
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    Ramie chicks & how hot can they stand?

    Three weeks is awfully young for the coop. Temps can fluctuate out there - though if you have the heat lamp in there and it's not going to be too hot outside you should be fine. You have to wait until they're fully feathered, and that can vary by breed. I'd planned to put mine out at six...
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    It amazes me

    Agreed! The amount of instinct these birds have is astonishing. Also, something of a relief, since I don't know I could teach them what they need to know! It's reassuring for when I start them to free ranging. I won't worry so much that they'll get lost or something.
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    Ramie chicks & how hot can they stand?

    Sounds like you did the right thing in moving the light so it covers both boxes. The boxes don't look like they'll be big enough in a week or two, though. Do you have a larger area set up? As to how much heat, I'd like to know, too! I'm moving my 8 week olds out to the coop tonight after...
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    Names!

    Let's see: sugar, chocolate chip, macaroon, oatmeal and raisin (you could have one oatmeal and one raisin :) ), Oreo, Thin Mint, Samoa, Tag-a-long, peanut butter, kiss (those are the sugar or pb cookies that you put a Hershey's kiss in the middle), and Milano. As an aside, it's slightly...
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    I Lost my girls today :*(

    I'm sorry for your loss!
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    why the difference in these chicks?

    Yeah, likely they're cockerels. Mine were much slower to grow than my pullets.
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    Chick pictures - 8 weeks old, plus coop pics

    Yep! Actually got 1/4". :) I'm not messing around with my flock. (Also, thank you!)
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    Chick pictures - 8 weeks old, plus coop pics

    Coop is almost done. We need to finish some stuff outside, including the run, but for the most part it's done. Once we finish vermin-proofing the coop tomorrow the chicks will be moving to their grown-up coop!
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    Would like some opinions before I give my maybe rooster baby away

    Give it time, like Donrae suggested. I found that the way I was able to tell my two roos pretty early is that they developed more slowly than my pullets. They're smaller, their feathers are taking longer to come in, and their tails took a lot longer to come in. In addition, when the tails came...
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    Easter eggers growth from chicks to adults

    They're lovely!
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    Chicks Trying out the Hamster Wheel

    That's adorable! I have to second the roost swing. I put one in our brooder annex (dog crate added to make it larger while we wait for the weather to allow us to finish the coop and run). The chicks LOVE it and fight over who gets to be on it. Well, not fight as in hurt each other, but...
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    Make your own - No waste - 5 gallon (25# feed) bucket feeder for about $3

    It took me a bit to wrap my head around the concept, too. The end of the pipe is about 3/4" above the bottom of the bucket. As food is eaten more falls down to the bottom to refill it.
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