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  1. Real McChicks

    Need to rehome young Gold Sex Link Roo and Hen (No. Cal)

    We have a 12 week old Gold Sex Link Rooster that we need to rehome and a 12 week old Black sex Link Pullet that we would like to go with him. He is a very sweet boy and my kids have handled him a lot. We dont think the black pullet will do well in our coop with the older ladies so we would...
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    gender of sex link chick?

    We decided to get sex-link chicks this time around so we wouldn't have to worry about getting a rooster. We have a 10 week old black sex link and a 10 week old gold sex link. We have raised 8 other hens and none of them ever had a comb like this so early (on the gold sex link). I have been...
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    Miserable chicken- what should I do?

    Our two yr old red star Mayzie is refusing to come out of the coop today. She is standing with her eyes closed and feathers puffed up. Her tail is down and her wings are down too. She wouldnt eat the scratch i offered her, and she didnt want to drink. She is only taking a few tentative steps...
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    how do the chickens whith weird combs get that way?

    This is really random, but i am wondering how chickens with different combs get that way??????
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    Red sex link photos needed!

    My daughter is doing her 5th grade science report on red star (red-sex link) chickens. I am hoping someone has a good picture of male red sex link chicks and an adult red sex link rooster that they would be willing to share with us? We have lots of photos of our red star hen as a chick...
  6. Real McChicks

    3 double yolkers in a row!!!!

    Is this normal? Our barred rock has been laying just over a week. 2-3 normal eggs, one soft shell and for the past three days- gigantic double yolk monsters! I know they lay some odd ones when they start out, but I was surprised to get 2 in a row, let alone 3. She is a BIG girl, but still-...
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    Guess what we found in the nest box this morning?

    A chicken nugget. My daughter went out to open the coop door and check for eggs, and she came running back in to tell me there was a chicken nugget in the nest box. I did give them a bowl of scraps yesterday evening and there was a nugget in the bowl, but which chicken is the joker who...
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    All 4 hens are laying!!!!!

    4 hens and 4 eggs yesterday....Wooohooo! Our first layer was our Red Star Mayzie. She started 4 weeks ago at exactly 20 weeks old. Large brown egg pretty much every day. Two weeks later exactly, our EE Gertrude started giving us medium sized mint green eggs. (My daughter was so excited to...
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    First egg.....in the poop box

    Super excited to see our first egg today! Not so excited that it was in the poop box and not in the nesting boxes. So- any suggestions on how to get them to lay in a better place? In our coop, under the roost we have a long shallow plastic bin as a poop box. It wasnt quite long enough, so we...
  10. Real McChicks

    Showing off our coop.

    Its been up for six weeks or so, but I wanted to show off my husbands handy work. Made of reclaimed redwood from someone's old deck. Designed it ourselves with lots of great ideas from this site. Its a 4x4 coop with an L shaped run about 40 sq ft. It looks so pretty in our yard and the girls...
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    Please tell me these are 4 pullets

    We have four 14 week old chicks- hoping they are all girls. I am quite certain on the BR and the Red Star, and pretty sure on the RIR- not as sure on the EE- but that is my daughters favorite, so crossing my fingers. What do you think? Gertrude McFuzz- the EE in question: Ruby the RIR...
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    Food reccomendation for growers?

    We have 4 ten week old chicks. When we ran out of chick starter I bought a bag of grower from TSC- I think it was the purina brand. The stuff is a dusty powdery mess! The girls wont eat the powdered stuff that is left over and it seems to be filling half the feeder. What a waste! Is...
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    My good girls put themselves to bed!

    Fourth night out in the coop and the little sweeties tucked themselves into the coop as soon as it started to get dark! I was so happy to not be trying to wrangle chicks out from under the coop in the dark. They have also all figured out the ramp into the coop. All we need now is for them to...
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    First night in the coop!

    My 7 week old chickies are sleeping in the coop tonight for the first time! I'm also very excited to have my shower back and clean! I've only checked on them 3 times so far and its 10:30 p.m.. They seem to be asleep, huddled in a big pile next to the solar light that I put in there with...
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    Chick trying to peck the freckles off me!

    MY 6 week old chicks are generally pretty friendly- they'll run up to me for treats and eat out of my hand. They also love to perch on our arms, but my daughters and I have freckled arms and they seem to mistake the freckles for something yummy. Kind of cute...until the RIR tried to gnaw a...
  16. Real McChicks

    moving to the coop

    SO- the coop should be done in the next two days. Our 4 chicks (6 weeks old) have been hanging out in their new run during the day for a few days and coming back in at night. When it starts to get dark they get very unhappy and loud! SO- how do we make the move to sleeping out in the...
  17. Real McChicks

    Her first slug- I'm so proud!

    Our 4 week old chicks got their first supervised outside time today. They seemed to enjoy it and my daughters and I had a blast watching them. We found a small slug on the grass and showed it to the chicks. They looked at it, one of them pecked it. Then our smallest chick, Daisy ran over and...
  18. Real McChicks

    Our coop is underway!

    After much discussion and planning, our coop is under construction. My husband was stalling a bit on starting, but when he saw how fast those chicks were growing- he finally got going. Its going under a tree in the corner of our yard, on a bit of a slope, so I had to do a lot of digging to...
  19. Real McChicks

    How much height over the roost?

    We are finally putting together the coop- but we need to figure out the placement for the roost. How much headroom do they need over the roost? 18"? We have a BR, RIR, EE and a Red Star. I have no idea how tall they will be when full grown.
  20. Real McChicks

    Questions on planning a coop and run

    We are finalizing our plans for the coop my husband will build. (the chicks are 2 weeks old- I told him he needs to get busy!) We are planning a 4x4 coop for our 4 chicks. Then we will have a covered run that is about 4x10 in the corner of our yard under a tree- two sides of it are...
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