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    Cross-beaked cockerel can't eat at all--very weak

    Hi all, My very dear cross-beaked cockerel (7 months old) can no longer eat. I thought he was eating all last week, although he seemed more hungry than normal, but yesterday and this morning I found him lying on the bottom of the coop, unable to get up. When I picked him up, I realized he was...
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    She's a He, But Not Crowing

    We've just figured out that our very beloved, cross-beaked, 6-month-old dark brahma hen is actually a cockerel. (It was the combination of no eggs, rather vigorous mounting of one hen, and, finally, looking up pictures on-line...whoopsie! The cockerels look pretty different than the pullets! )...
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    Getting Chicks to Sleep Outside

    Well, I think I've created a problem. My chicks are now 10 weeks old and have been playing in an open-air atrium during the day. At night, we've still been bringing them inside to sleep in their brooder box. The last few nights we've tried to leave them outside in the atrium, to get them used...
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    Relationship of Roost to Nest Box?

    Hi all, We are inching along on our coop. We will putting in a shelf to hold the nest box tomorrow. I thought I read somewhere that the roost is supposed to be near the nest box? Not near the nest box? Something important here, but I can't remember what! Any suggestions? And how high up should...
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    Really Gross Icky Sticky Poop

    Hi all. One of my four chicks (not sure which one) is pooping runny, black, puddles of sticky poop. Definitely not the nicely formed greenish-brownish poops of the other chicks. (Looks like meconium, for those of you who have had human babies.) They're all on medicated feed. Any thoughts on...
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    Can they go outside now?

    Hi all, My five six-week-old chicks are now too big (and too noisy) to stay in their brooder in the living room. Our coop is not yet finished, but I have a 35-square-foot atrium in the middle of the house where I've been letting them play during the day. (So much for the vegetation in THAT...
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    deformed beak in 3-week-old?

    Hello. One of our five chicks appears to have a beak problem. The top part of the beak and the bottom part of the beak don't quite match--I think the bottom is angled slightly off to the side. Is there a name for this? And is it a problem? She seems to be eating and drinking ok, but the problem...
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