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  1. saralrfurlong

    What is the gender of this 9-week-old lavender orpington?

    We're thinking it is probably pretty obvious, but we're new to chickens so we wanted to check.
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    6-week-old lavender orpington vanished without a trace

    I left our dozen 6-week-old chicks outside for 5 minutes while I was Googling, "can you leave 6-w-o chicks alone outside?" !!! Came back to 11. No sign of where it might be. Not a feather. Nothing. What might have a happened? A hawk? We live in a residential area with houses all around us...
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    Starting a flock with 3-month-olds and chicks?

    My husband and I started building a coop for a small flock of chickens (5-6). Originally, we intended to raise them all from chicks. However, not as many hatched as expected and we weren't able to get any of our chicks this time around. The person who is hatching them has another dozen due to...
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    New to chickens

    Hi, all. My husband, two kids, and two cocker spaniels live in upstate NY. (FAR away from the city.) We want to start raising backyard chickens and are trying to hammer out the details. We thought we'd missed the boat for this year, until a friend recently announced she has some lavender...
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    Newbies here - Converting a shed into a coop?

    Hi there. My husband and I want to raise backyard chickens. We were researching building coops and had an idea but aren't sure if it will work. We have a 10.5' x 20' shed that is currently being used as a playhouse for our kids. (It is about 6' tall). The kids are little and don't use it much...
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