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    mystery chick - could it be a Sicilian Buttercup???

    I ordered eight chicks from MyPetChicken, but got nine! I ordered two each of Welsummers, Golden-Laced Wyandottes, Buckeyes, and Silver Spangled Hamburgs. I think the extra mystery chick (who we're calling Duck) isn't any of those breeds. I wonder if she's a Sicilian Buttercup? I know that's a...
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    Will a broody hen take older chicks (two weeks old)?

    When I got my chicks two weeks ago, they were one day old. I had a Speckled Sussex hen who'd been broody for just over a week, and an Australorp who'd been broody for a few days. That night, I snuck all eight 1-day-old chicks under the hen who'd been broody the longest. I got up before dawn to...
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    Help! Hoping to raise day-old chicks with broody hen in my established flock

    I have seven 2-yr-old free-range hens and I've ordered eight new chicks that will be delivered in May. There's a good chance that one of my hens (a Speckled Sussex) will be broody, so I want to try to get her to raise the chicks. I know she needs to be broody for a few weeks before I get the...
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    11 wk old Speckled Sussex - guess the gender

    I have two Speckled Sussex, both 11 weeks old, with very different tail growth. I'm still hoping they're both girls! I'm thinking I probably won't know until they either lay eggs or crow, but I'm curious what the guesses are at this stage. Here is the first, with just a tiny little tail...
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    tail-less Sussex?

    My 11 week old Sussex seems to have no tail to speak of. Is this normal? I have two Sussex pullets, same age, and the other one does have a tail. I don't really care, but I think it's weird. The next picture shows the two Sussex's right next to each other. The one with a tail is in...
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    first look out the ADOR1

    Here are some pictures of my 10 week old pullets getting their first look out the open ADOR1. No one was brave enough to try it yet!
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    want to help me choose my coop colors?

    I'm not done with the coop & run yet (coop roof unfinished, and no hardware cloth or gate on the run), but I'm having fun figuring out the paint colors anyway. The nest boxes started out brown with a cream outline, but then I decided that was too boring with the blue coop and green run, so I...
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    how much head clearance on the ramp?

    Since my coop is raised 2' off the ground and it's a walk-in coop, I'm planning to put a deck off the front with stairs to make it easier for me. But the best way I can think of (for a number of reasons) to get the chickens down from their pop door (which is 12" above the future deck) is to...
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    The coop I built!

    I'm not done yet, but I thought I'd post some pictures of my progress: This is the girls in their new coop about 15 min after we moved them there. Eight huddled in a corner and the one most adventurous one out looking around. The walls are vinyl (so is the floor under the pine...
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    how young can I free range chicks?

    My very first batch of chicks is 7 weeks old today, and I just finished the coop enough to move them in (still needs some caulking and painting on the outside). So today they went to their new home! I'm very excited to finally have them out of the brooder that they have been trying to escape...
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    escaping chickens

    Do you guys have trouble with your chickens wanting to escape when you open the hatch to the nest boxes? I'm going to have three nest boxes, and I had been planning to have the back be one long board that is hinged and swings down, so it would all be open from the back for egg collecting. But...
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    confused about height of roosting bar

    Everything I read says to put the roosting bar above the height of the nest boxes, so the ladies won't sleep (& poop!) in their nest boxes. But I wonder, does that mean above the top of the nest boxes, or just above the part they hop onto to jump into the nest boxes? So if the bottoms of my...
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    worry about chemicals leeching into fermented food?

    I'm just starting my first flock (they're just over a month old), and so far I've fed them their fermented food in the plastic chick trough feeder I originally bought for them - with the top removed, now that their heads are bigger. Now I'm thinking about what to get to give them their...
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    ventilation without windows?

    I'm building the coop for our 9 chickens (they're 3-1/2 weeks old now), and I'm stumped trying to figure out the ventilation/window plans. I'm building a 6'x6' box with a gabled roof that is 6' at the sides. The roof is going to be a sod roof, so no ridge ventilation. But what I'd planned was...
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    organic chicken feed in central Illinois?

    I'm just wondering if anyone has any ideas where I could get organic starter, grower, and layer food in central Illinois. I'm feeding my little flock (three weeks old) fermented Scratch & Peck, but it's super expensive with the shipping, so I was hoping someone would know of something more...
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    How far apart should I set the posts for the run?

    I'm planning a run that is 8' wide by 17' 6" long. It will be almost 7' high (don't ask why!). I'm going to sink 4x4's in the ground and have runners at the bottom, middle, and top of the fence, and then I was going to attach hardware cloth to that. All along I've been planning to space the...
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    not sure how high nests & roosts for my chicks ("heavy" breeds"

    Well, I think I have heavy breeds anyway. I have 9 chicks - 2 Australorps, 2 Brahmas, 1 Favorelle, 2 Sussex, and 2 Welsummers. I'm just about ready to start building their coop & run (they're 2 wks old & still in their brooder - I know, I know, I'd better hurry!). I was thinking of putting...
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    1-1/2 week old chick died

    When I got my chicks in the mail on July 16th, one of the Australorps was doing very poorly. I was sure she was going to die that night, but she didn't, and I managed to nurse her back to health and re-introduce her to the rest of the flock just a few days later. All because of what you guys...
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    Help! one of my day-old Australorps isn't doing well - her head is wobbly & she falls over

    I posted this in the baby chicks forum, and then I saw that there's an emergency forum, so I'm reposting here. Sorry - I'm new to the site & I was kind of frantic. I just got my ten new day-old chicks, and nine of them seem to be doing great. The 10th isn't, though. She's eaten, I think...
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    Help! one of my day-old Australorps isn't doing well!

    I just got my 10 new chicks, and 9 of them seem to be doing great. The 10th isn't, though. She's eaten, I think (there seems to be something in her crop, although not as much as in the other chicks), but I don't know if she's drinking. I'm feeding them fermented food, so it has quite a bit of...
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