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    what do u look for when buying baby chickies?

    I was wondering how you select your chicks when u pick them up from where ever? I just got 3 rir and 3 silver laced at farm, family and home (tsc competition) the guy asked which ones, I looked at him and said the bigger, alive looking ones. idk just thought I would ask for me and others.
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    wbb sick/ ill i think, can you help

    hello I got 6 white broad breasted end of may. they have been fine up till now. I have one urkey that is laying down, slow kinda sleepy in a way. it will not run away from me like the other ones and allowed me to pick it up several times. I think it might have a cough as well. the other 5...
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    early chick raising ???'s

    hello every one. I would like to get some chicks early this year, but I don't want them in the house again. I have chickens now and would like to add more to the flock. what are ppl doing early in the year in the snow/colder region to over come this? I do have electric in the coop, I keep...
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    another why arent they producting eggs, problem

    I have 2 roos, 18 hens, mixed flock. 4 bantams, a red and? are just over a year old. picked up more this spring, 3 white p rocks (1 roo), 3 buff orp (1 roo), 4 dark bramaha, and a couple others. the older ones layed pretty good, but fell off when the younger ones started, for what I can...
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    ate my first raised chicken, odd

    hello, well I ate my first raised chicken today, rir 7 months old. I was shocked how tough it was. when they get to that age are they stew style only? what do you do for a chicken that age?
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    egg cracker, broken eggs, just total nesting box problems

    one of my birds is pecking at eggs. sometimes it just strikes it once and puts a dent in it, broken shell. the other morning I found a shell that was 2/3rds missing, yoke and white gone. I have a light in the coop, comes on at 2am. I check the box before work at 4:30 am. that is when I find a...
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    Where did feathers go?

    My roo lost these feathers several weeks ago. I don't know why and hasn't lost any more from the first time.
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    been thinking again, growing in the run

    hello everyone. I've been thinking again and im sorry, lol. im new to chickens, I have 9 as of now in a 8'x16' run. the grass lasted a bit because they were small at the time but it is now gone. I was thinking would it be possible to plant some type of seed, rye, oats, barley or what ever...
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    young and the younger intragration?????????

    hello we have 8 bantams mille fluer chicks, at the 5-6 week range. we just picked up 2 RIR and 2 buff orp week going on 2 old chicks. I have the bantams in the coop now and the chicks in the house. I have a small 2'x5' cage I put in the yard till we move so they can hang outside for a little...
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    my first coop

    well I have started to build my first chicken coop. I have tried to get plans and sizes of everyone coop but I could find what I wanted. I found a dog house style but then lost it and went off of 1 measurement, now I have a lean-to style coop. I have a 4'x8' floor plan being I want about 8-10...
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    need some help for a coop

    ive been high, low and computer locked up trying to get some plans, ideas for a coop. the coop will hold 8 chickens max. from what I have found a 4'x8' floor plan would get the space needed for the chickens. I will be moving in a month or so, so I need to be able to haul it. but that's my...
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    hello everyone

    hello everyone ive been wanting some chickens and we took the plunge today. we got 3 bantam mille fleur chickens for our 1st try. after getting home I had to do a search to read more about them which lead me here. I hope we didn't get 3 roosters, I haven't read a good report on them yet. we...
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