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    Mother won't feed chicks?

    The update is good!!! Thank you for all your advice, guys! She could not be more over the moon to have her babies. She walks around and talks to them and everyone is eating and drinking. Everyone just seems so happy! They went outside for the first time today for a little while (I'm still a...
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    Mother won't feed chicks?

    The chicks are just under a week old now. And I know they ate yesterday before I put them under her.
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    Mother won't feed chicks?

    So two days ago I attempted to put three chicks under a broody mama. I haven't been able to get her to get off a nest for two months now, and I've tried just about everything people told me. Except putting babies under her. Seeing as the temps here have been really mild, I figured there couldn't...
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    Rooster is too sweet

    My rooster is, pardon the pun, a big chicken. He's nearly five months old and struts around likes he's hot stuff... But he runs from his own hens. I bought him after my big girls but the two flocks are, for all intents and purposes, integrated. My big girls (which he is now larger than at around...
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    Multiple dietary concerns from a newbie chicken owner

    Thank you so much!!!
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    Multiple dietary concerns from a newbie chicken owner

    About seven months ago I bought my first batch of chicks. I had no hiccups aside from the dogs killing one of the chickens (they sure know better than to do that now!). I fed them the feed our local co-op sells and they did great on it, plus I supplemented their diet with yogurt and fruits and...
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    When to get rid of cockerels

    I have three cockerels that I need to get rid of, two chocolate orpingtons and a lavender orpington. I was hoping, since the breeds aren't common, I could find someone willing to take them for free and not have to go through the heartache of finding someone to butcher them (I positively can't do...
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    coop conversation - part 1

    I know the Chicken Chick has a whole page on curtains. Their for nesting boxes but I'd assume whatever material people use for nesting box curtains could be used for larger curtains. I would use something that's easy to clean though, and mainly just watch for fraying. I've noticed me chicks...
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    Is there anything I can do to stimulate feather growth?

    I have a chocolate orpington chick that just won't grow feathers on it's back/rump. My two other chocolate orps are fully feathered and my two lavender orps and my blue cochin that are about a week and a half younger than this chick are almost fully feathered too. I'm worried about moving them...
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    8 days old Welsumer chicks. Odd crouching hopping smallest chick

    She's taking a dust bash in this video. Which is totally natural. It's also adorable.
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    Has anyone used this design?

    That looks so nice! And it's totally adorable with your chicks and flowers. My problem with building something is that I'm not a builder, I'd have to pay someone to do something that involves all that cutting and it looks like that takes a lot more wood/metal work. If you do put more information...
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    Has anyone used this design?

    Yeah I was definitely going to cover it with hardware cloth. We don't have wildlife come into our yard any more . We have five dogs and two of them that roam the chicken yard at night and we also have our chicken fence inside our horse fence, I've seen my mare trample a dog just for coming in...
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    Has anyone used this design?

    I don't know if this is the right place to put this under because it is for my chicks, but it is also a coop issue so I'm not really sure where to put it. I was wondering if anyone had used this design for chicks? I like it because it is cheap and light. There is plenty of room for all my chicks...
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    Growth rate of Columbian Wyandotte chicks????

    I don't know about Wyandottes specifically but everyone I've talked to has told me that slow feather growth and big feet are a sign that you have a rooster. Whatever it is, that chick is absolutely adorable!!!
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    Extremely Slow Feather Growth in Lavender Orpingtons

    Well seeing yours makes me a lot less nervous. I am getting the same feeling that it's a he. He's actually smaller than the one on the left but she was farther back from the camera, which is why it looks that way. I haven't noticed any difference in leg thickness but the comb is a little larger...
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    Extremely Slow Feather Growth in Lavender Orpingtons

    This picture is a terrible but the chick on the right is the smallest chick in my brooder and his/her feather development is glacial at best. At first I thought maybe it was a roo (straight run) but now you can see the chick on the left, which is from the same hatch as it, has a lot more...
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    Orpington buff success rates

    My buff orpingtons did great as chicks. They feathered out the fastest, didn't bully other chicks, and didn't get bullied either. The only thing that did kill one of them was a dog and there's really no helping that. I love the breed and mine are just hatchery stock. I can't imagine why the...
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    I need help to make my chicks think I'm their mom

    I agree with all the food stuff, and I haven't had chickens for very long at all. From what I've seen though, some are going to be friendly, some will be a little more stand offish in the absence of food. I like to find a place that I can sit down with them. When I do this I don't try and touch...
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    Is it too soon to guess the sex?

    I have three chocolate orpington chicks that are around four weeks old and they're enormous. Compared to my lavender orpingtons and blue cochins that I got only one week after them, they're nearly double the size. Honestly, behavior wise I can't tell. They're so different from my first batch of...
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    Questions on mixing chicks and odd behavior

    I have two batches of chicks. My grey gang (2 lavender orps and a blue cochin chick) are about one week old, my dinosaurs (3 chocolate orps) are about 2 or maybe 3 weeks old (I know I've had them for two weeks, I'm just not sure how old they were when I got them and I'm new to chickens). When I...
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