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    Chick Waterer

    We put our chicks outside at 1 week, they are now 3 weeks old and a problem we had was the waterer would get dirty and clogged. Our solution was to use a catfood can. It is attached to the coop frame with a drywall screw. Now the water stays clean and is easy to refill through the chicken...
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    Hatching ahead of schedule

    My chicks are hatching on the 19th day, again. The first batch did the same, 4 on day 19 and 2 more on day 20. Is this OK? The incubator is home-made from an ice chest, temp varies between 99 and 100, humidity was in the high 40's until lockdown on day 18, then up to high 70's after lockdown...
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    Black Snakes

    I went out to check our 2 1/2 week old chicks and found a dead one with a black snake wrapped around it. I turned it into a "good" black snake with a bullet in the head. People tell me they are beneficial, they kill mice and copperheads. Mice and copperheads don't kill chickens and all the...
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    Rowdy chicks

    We just hatched 6 chicks in our incubator and all seemed pretty healthy. When the hens hatched eggs they would have the chicks running through the woods the first or second day so we decided to take our 4 day old chick out for a "walk" in the chicken pen. The first day they just practiced...
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    Hi from the Arkansas Ozarks

    We have been raising chickens off and on for the last 20 years. They are free range for tick control but we have a big problem with predators. Our favorite chickens are the Speckled Sussex, very independent and like to fend for themselves. We have 15 in the brooder right now, 2 weeks old and...
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