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    Tippy chick

    I have a 4 week chick, supposedly a pullet, but of unknown breed. She was an add on the Feed store gave my son when 2 of the chicks in his order died in shipment. She its markedly smaller than the rest of the clutch and is always getting stepped on. The past 2 days she outs holding her head...
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    Illness in our flock

    We have had a stressful 2 weeks. It started with a bad storm that knocked down a tree branch destroying one of our 2 coops. Thankfully no chickens were injured, but very freaked out. We put all 21 (mixed ages and 1 rooster) into the other coop. Much too crowded but needed while we built a new...
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    No one is laying

    I have 10 chickens currently. 3-15 week ISA Browns that I don't expect to be laying yet, 3- 2 year old hens and 4-1 year old hens. 3 weeks ago the 1 and 2 year olds were all laying either daily or every other day. I was averaging 5 eggs a day from 7 hens. Very respectable in January. Then...
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    4 week old chicks got too cold

    We had a dozen 4 weeks olds in a dog crate on the covered porch. They had a heat lamp on them with a tarp over it at night. It has been warm here. last night a storm front blew in, earlier then was forecasted and the temp dropped 40 degrees. The tarp blew off and the outdoor rated heat lamp...
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    Need help with flock management

    Attack of the chicken math! Back in March we purchased 6 chicks. 1 was eaten by the neighbors dog, one ended up being a roo. The neighbor gave us 3 laying hens to replace the killed bird from her parent's farm and then rehomed our rooster with them. At that point we had 7 hens that fit very...
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    Shell less eggs

    My 17 month old leghorn started her fall molt last week. She is still laying, but the eggs either have a very thin shell or no shell at all. They have oyster shells, and I feed them back the egg shells. Is tt just because she is molting? Any suggestions to get her through this ? I...
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    Help with breed and maybe gender

    We bought a clutch of 6 heritage breed chicks in April. They were 1day old and we were told all female. We think we have IDed all the breeds except for one. Any help would be appreciated
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    A boy and his chicken

    My 9 year old son is the main chicken keeper in our house. They are very much his pets. This is Reddi, his favorite. Reddi follows him around all day along with his dog.
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    Lurker becoming a "new member"

    I had chickens growing up. I had been thinking about getting chickens for a few years, when one day in April my son showed up with a box of 6 one day old hens. At least he remembered to get a bag of grower feed also! So we built a coop and a run in the spring. We are still trying to figure...
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