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    Hen with laceration on head/neck

    Our rooster was a little too aggressive with one of our hens. He tore the back of her neck open, a zigzag laceration. We cleaned it out and put neosporin on it a couple days ago and put her in her own little coop to heal. Looked good yesterday so we put her back in the large coop last nigjt. I...
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    Small eggs...normal?

    We have 4 black jersey giants, 2 golden laced wyandots, and 3 Rhode island reds. All are 8 months old, and still laying small eggs. Is this normal?
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    Urgent.....vent problem....freakin out!

    We went out to feed our chickens today and noticed that one of our golden laced Wyandot {Speckles} appeared to have an egg stuck with poop stuck in her feathers. We removed her from the coop and tried to wash the poop off and remove the egg. After washing her a little we discovered there is no...
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    12 wk old chickens....can we switch food?

    We have our chicks(10 of them) on chick starter crumbles, and man are they going through it. Can we switch them over to pellets?
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    Too cold for chicks?

    We have 10 chickens in our house (breezeway) that are 3 months old. We have a lamp on them. Our weather here has been 20-30 degrees. We have a coop built inside our pole barn, with 5 chickens out there. the temp inside the coop has been around 30 degrees. We do not use a heat source out there...
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    Building new coop

    We will be moving our 40 hens from the barn to a coop this spring. Looking for advice on how big of a coop to build to house 40-50 hens.
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    Feeding baby chicks

    We're new to raising chicks. How long do we keep them on the chick starter feed? They are 9 weeks old.
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    When to put chicks in the barn with other chickens

    We have 11 chicks that were hatched October 6. Our coop is built inside our pole barn to keep the chickens out of the weather. We have 4 hens and a rooster already out there. We are not planning on using a heat source to heat the coop. We do have a ton of straw out there. We live in NW Ohio, the...
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    egg washing

    My wife and I are new to chickens and country living. We are looking for the proper way to wash our eggs.
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