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    Yolk color change, why?

    Hello everyone! My wife was just lamenting this morning that the beautiful orange yolks that our chickens provided when they first started laying have begun to fade to a more yellowish hue. They are young hens hatched this spring, so they are only about 6 months old right now. For the first...
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    Moving to the coop

    So my girls are now 6.5 weeks old and they are getting very restless in their brooder which they are outgrowing. I'm anxious to get them into their coop, but I'm not sure if it's warm enough for them. I live in mid-Michigan and nighttime temps are still falling into the high 30's for the next...
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    Protecting flock from a pool?

    Hi everyone, We're starting our first flock this year. I've just completed (or nearly completed, just final touches and a paint job left) our chicken tractor for them. The ultimate plan is to create 8 paddocks that we will alternate and rotate between garden and pasture, but that's a ways...
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    Jumpy Chicks

    My chicks are just now 4 days old (this is our first time with chickens). I've noticed over just the last day that the chicks seem much more easily startled than they did the first few days. Whenever we enter the room or peer over the brooder box to watch them they will jump and/or scatter...
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    When to get chicks? (Michigan)

    Hi everyone! I'm new, so if this is the wrong forum, please bear with me :) Anyway, my wife and I just bought our first home. It's located on just under 4 acres of (mostly) cleared land. Our plan is to turn it into a proper homestead and--unsurprisingly--chickens are one of the first...
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