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    How can I get mama to take her chicks into the coop?

    I received an order of four chicks from Meyer Hatchery a few days after my Wyandotte went broody. I put the chicks underneath her and she's been raising them like a champ for the last 2 weeks! About five days ago I let the family back in with my other 4 hens and everyone has been getting along...
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    When can mama and her babies be introduced to the flock?

    I have a small backyard flock of 5 hens in San Diego. Because they're all getting up there in age I decided to get 4 chicks from Meyer Hatchery. The chicks arrived last Tuesday. Two days before my chicks got here I had a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte go broody. On Wednesday (the day after the...
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    Opinions on run substrate??

    I've had chickens for about 4 years now at my home in San Diego. The chickens are in a run we built on the side of our house. It is enclosed with chain-link fence and the coop is inside the run. The run is made up of three terraces because our house is on a slope. When we first built the run...
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    Meyer Hatcher Olive Egger egg color??

    Meyer Hatchery started selling Olive Eggers this year. I'm getting a chick next week, but I thought I'd see if anyone has bought one from earlier in the year and might have pictures of what they are looking like. Even better, I was curious if anyone has gotten an egg yet to know how olive they...
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    Cream Legbar Roo

    Cream Legbar Roo that just hatched today (16-Mar-14) in San Diego. Free to good home. Willing to travel an hour in any direction from San Diego for drop-off. Will take pictures after he's more than a few hours old!
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    Help with diarrhea!!

    All 4 of my hens have diarrhea. I've run a fecal test and it came back negative, so it's not coccidia. They mostly eat a commercial pellet, but also get produce scraps from the kitchen. When I use a lot of produce or greens they do sometimes get large amounts of leftovers. Could this be the...
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    How long do I keep chicks and their mom separate??

    I have a broody silkie who is sitting on two fertilized eggs. This is my first time hatching eggs with a broody hen. After a few times of her getting off the nest to eat and then returning to the wrong nest box and incubating infertile eggs, I put up hardware cloth in my chicken coop to close...
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    Cream Legbar eggs?

    I'm in San Diego and have a broody silkie I was thinking of letting try to hatch out some eggs. Does anyone have a half dozen cream legbar eggs for sale to ship or pick up in Southern California?
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    Should I use sand or gravel in my sloped run?

    I have 5 pullets in a fairly large outdoor run that surrounds their coop. The run is on a slope up against our house. Our soil is very rocky and hard to work with. So far I've just left the run as dirt. Smell isn't an issue at all, I think that it's large enough that the poop doesn't build...
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    1 bird not sleeping with rest of flock anymore

    I have a flock of 5 pullets that are all just starting to lay (about 6 months old). Two silkies and 3 large fowl birds. They have a large fenced in run with a coop inside. In the coop there is a roosting bar up top and a nest box off the side. All 5 birds used to always sleep on the roosting...
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    When will I get eggs?!!

    I'm at that point of checking every day (okay, who am I kidding, 7 times a day) for eggs! I have 5 hens. The oldest two are silkies, they are both 25 weeks old. The other three are an easter egger, an ameraucana, and a black copper maran and they are all 23 weeks old. A friend that shared my...
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    Anyone else have a run that isn't flat?

    I am moving my 5 chickens from their current coop and run which is about 3'x7' and only 4' high to a much larger run that is 7'x16' and 8' high. I was originally planning on using sand for my run, but the run is not completely flat, it's slightly sloped. Now I'm worried that all of the sand...
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    Anyone received blue laced red wyandottes from Meyer Hatchery?

    I was wondering if anyone has ordered blue laced red wyandottes from Meyer Hatchery and could share pics? I have 5 birds from them (my two silkies were ordered through My Pet Chicken but they are just a middle man for Meyers) and am pretty happy with them. All arrived healthy and seem to be...
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    Developer Feed or straight from Chick to Layer?

    I was wondering what people do for their transition from chick feed to layer feed. One of my favorite chicken books (I almost wrote Bible!) is A Chicken in Every Yard, by the Litts. In it they say to transition from a chick feed to a developer feed, which can be purchased or can be a mix of...
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    thoughts on just using chain link fence for a chicken run?

    We are building a new coop and run for our 5 chicks, which at 4 months old have outgrown the prefab coop/run we bought for them. For the coop, we bought plans from mypetchicken.com for the Bella coop. It is going to be extremely safe and predator proof and our girls are great at going up into...
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    What's the best litter for a large chicken run?

    We currently have our 5 two month old chicks (2 silkies, an easter egger, an ameraucana, and a black copper maran) in a coop/run which we purchased and assembled. Our girls spend most of their day enclosed in the run portion of the setup, they get let out into the yard for about an hour a day...
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