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    wounded hen

    So it's the middle of the night and I hear a terrible squawking in the back yard. I run out to the coop (sadly left open but surrounded by an electronet fence) and find my 2 hens very upset and a handful of feathers on the floor. My husband and I brought both birds into the house to examine...
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    no obvious symptoms but something wrong

    Our buff orpington seems to have something wrong but we don't know what. She's just standing in the run while the 2 other girls are happily pecking and scratching all around her. We let her out of the run for some free range time in the back yard this afternoon and noticed that she didn't...
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    rehab for a caged chicken

    For Christmas my son is asking Santa for a white chicken. Well, finding one for sale around here this time of year was difficult and the only one that Santa's helpers could find was a while leghorn who spent her life in a cage. Her belly feathers are missing (presumably from sleeping on wire)...
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    chicks trying to perch on light???

    We put our little girls (5 weeks and 9 weeks) outside tonight in their little coop on our front porch. Until now they've been in the house which has been between 70 and 80 degrees with no light in their coop. Since it's supposed to be in the 50's overnight I hooked up a light with a 100w bulb...
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    Is it ok to let one chick be a bully?

    We have 4 chicks that due to space issues we have to put together. Two are 6 weeks old and two are 2 weeks old. Oddly enough three of them are identical in size and only one is a "big girl" (at least double the size). It's been 85+ degree weather so we've been putting them all out in the yard...
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    Huge chick and tiny one

    We have 2 chicks that are both supposed to be Marans and are the same age (6 weeks). One is at least twice as big as the other. We also have 2 that are just about 2 weeks old (backyard blend type). We tried to put them together since the smaller 6 week old is the same size as the 2 weekers...
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    Hello from our family to yours

    Thanks to our son's pre-school class we now have chicks! We've been talking about getting a few chickens for our tiny yard and now have jumped into chick craziness. The past week every evening has been spent on this site reading and learning what to do with these little fluffballs. So glad you...
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