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    Should I quarantine this guinea fowl from my chickens and if so, how long?

    So I went to go feed my chickens a couple of days ago when I noticed a guinea running up and down the opposite side of my chicken coop. I decided to get my brother to help me catch it and I made it a pen to stay in until I figure out what to do with it. I plan on trying to find the owner, but if...
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    Could anyone help me identify what breeds my roosters are?

    Could anyone help me identify the breeds of my roosters? I got them from Craigslist as 2 day old chicks just like my hens, but I didn't bother asking the breed. (I also only wanted one, but apparently there was a mistake when he sexed them.) Rooster #1 Rooster #2 (Sorry for the bad...
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    Could anyone help me identify what breeds my hens are?

    I first got these hens as two day old chicks on craigslist and at the time all I was concerned about was getting laying hens, so I didn't bother to ask about the breed, just if they were good layers. If anyone could help me figure out what breeds they are, I would be very appreciative. Hen #1...
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    When should stitches be removed?

    Last week, I had some chicks hatch and two of them were born with a hole in their stomach, so I decided to grab Neosporin, a needle, and some regular sewing thread and attempt to stitch them up. This week, I had to put one down the next day because the stitches burst and I didn't find out...
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    How to put a chick to sleep?

    The story behind this question is that I had some eggs incubating and some of them hatched yesterday, but two of the chicks had a hole in the stomach with their guts starting to poke out. I decided to stitch them up and apply Neosporin and they both seemed ok last night. This morning, one of...
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    Under what circumstances should I help a chick that is trying to hatch?

    I had a clutch of eggs that I was letting my broody hen hatch, but she ended up leaving a lot of them behind because it was a staggered hatch, so I made a makeshift incubator out of a Styrofoam cooler to allow them to finish since the latest one was scheduled to hatch was a few days. Two days...
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    Staggered hatches under a broody hen?

    I have 5 hens and 2 roosters. I have the 2 roosters pinned up in the coop, separately. One day I came back to find out that one of my hens had somehow managed to get inside one of the rooster pins. Since I already had a hen that has been broody for a while i decided to let the other hen stay...
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    Will a broody hen take care of hatched chicks AND unhatched eggs?

    I have a hen and a roosted that I am breeding, so I am getting one, hopefully, fertilized egg a day. I have another hen that happened to be broody, so I gave the fertilized eggs to her, but since I am getting one a day that means that their hatch dates will be different, so I was wondering what...
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    Roosters getting thin after being separated from hens?

    I have 3 roosters and 5 hens and a hen has started laying eggs, so I decided to separate the roosters and hens to make sure none of the eggs were fertilized. I just picked them up and took them out of their pens, so that they can roam around a bit outside. When I picked them up I noticed that...
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    How much feed do I give my chicks?

    I'm a little confused about this because couple of people who have raised chickens for years have told me that if you let baby chicks have too much food, they will just keep eating until they die. The problem is that it has been a while since any of them raised chickens, so none of them remember...
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    Asphalt pebbles in chicken coop?

    There are asphalt pebbles in the coop im fixing up. they are not fresh, they have been there mixed in the dirt for a long time. I was going to cover it all in pine shavings, then put my chickens in there. Is that safe for them.
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    Asphalt right under the dirt in the coop I'm fixing up?

    So my coop is about 25' x 25' (rough estimate) and about a quarter of it in one corner is walled off. I think it used to be a feed storage room. This coop used to be used as a coop about 10 years ago by the last owners of the house, but it has been used for storage since. There are bits of...
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    Is rusty coop fencing safe for the chickens?

    I am working on repairing an old walk-in chicken coop that the last owners of the house had and it has been used for storage for a long time. It has a tin roof with wooden rafters and the walls are made of metal poles that create a frame for fencing. They had fencing on those poles, but it is so...
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    Chicks pecking bedding off each other?

    So I just cleaned the old bedding out of my brooder that has 8 chicks that are all about 3 weeks old, and as soon as I put them back in with fresh bedding, most of them started pecking at it and eating something in it and 2 or 3 other chicks started like kicking it up and laying in it and they...
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    Brown recluses in the coop I'm fixing up?

    So that back part of our shed used to be a chicken coop when the last owners had the house and I decided I wanted chickens, so I bought some chicks and started cleaning the coop. I have already gotten most of the old cans and other trash out of there, but since the coop has been sitting awhile...
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    Household supplements for chicks?

    So I have heard of a few different household items that can be used as supplements for chickens and I was wondering if any of you know if they are good or bad for the chicks. Here are some of them and what I heard that they helped with: Apple Cider Vinegar- 1/2 a teaspoon to quart of water is...
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    Chick acting a little lethargic (lazy)?

    I noticed that my week old whandotte rooster is looking a little more tired than the rest. He walks around pretty normally he just acts a little lazier than the others and it looks like he is holding his wings a little lower than the others are too. He peeps just like the others and I know he...
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    My chicks have started randomly shaking their heads?

    Okay, so I was watching my week old chicks and I noticed that they have started randomly shaking their heads like something is bothering them. I've been trying to figure out why they might be doing it. So far these are the possible reasons I have found: They are too cold, loud noises, and mites...
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    Mixing Chicken breeds?

    So i have nine one-week old chicks. 8 are hens that are either ameraucana's, RIR's, or marans. The ninth one is a rooster and he is a wyandotte. I am raising these chicks primarily for eggs. Does this seem like a decent mix? Will they breed okay when they are old enough?
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    Pasty butt or messy butt?

    So I've heard of the problem with chicks called pasty butt and I looked up pictures of it so I would know what it looks like. What i saw was basically a mound of poop stuck to the chick's butt. So I checked my chicks and noticed that one of them seems to have a little bit of a mess on his butt...
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