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    Chicken math got me again...

    I went to TSC for dog food and came home with chicks lol any guesses on breeds?
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    How to feed a flock of all ages

    I have a flock of turkeys and chickens. I was feeding Nutrena All Flock layer pellets until our recent hatch. I got some starter feed for the chicks but now the older birds are refusing to eat the pellets. I've been mixing it half and half but they pick around the pellets. They free range and I...
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    Help! Chicks are dying.

    I had 3 chicks hatch on day 17 of being under a broody hen. Two of them seemed fine but one seemed very lethargic and it was panting pretty bad. I thought maybe it was too hot outside so I brought all three of them inside. I had them under a heat lamp and they did fine for a few hours. I checked...
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    Help!! They hatched way early!!

    My chicks hatched on day 17!! There are three chicks. Two are doing great but I'm a little concerned about one of them. It's laying there panting and won't get up. I brought it inside because it's almost 100 outside and I thought it might be too hot. There are 7 more eggs under my broody's. One...
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    Candling eggs under hen

    Is it ok if I never candle the eggs under my hens? This is my first time hatching eggs. They get pretty mad at me if I even go in the pen with them. One of them pecked me the other day when I was filling her water lol if I try to take every one of their eggs and candle them all hell is going to...
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    Turkeys...

    How do I tell the gender of turkeys? I bought these two about seven weeks ago. I have no clue what breed they are or if they are male or female. (What's the right word for male and female turkeys?) I bought them both at TSC. I asked the employee and he tried to argue that they were geese because...
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    What to do about weeds?

    I need to know if there is something I can spray in my yard that will kill weeds but won't hurt the chickens. We have those weeds that have those very short burrs on them and they HURT when you step on them. They are so bad that even my dog is getting them stuck in her paws. I have 3 acres of...
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    How long can I hold an egg before I try to hatch it?

    I came home today to find the neighbors dog eating my only green egg laying hen. I have two of her eggs but I'm going out of town tomorrow and won't be back until Monday. Can I put them under a broody hen Monday and still hatch them? They were both laid in the last few days.
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    Mystery chick death

    We came home today to find a chick dead in our front yard. (All of our birds free range on our 3 acres) The other 3 chicks were hiding in some tall grass so I'm pretty sure a predator got the chick. Only we can't figure out what killed it. It looked perfectly fine. No puncture marks or wounds at...
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    Hens kicking broody's off their eggs

    My laying hens typically ALWAYS lay in the same box. I have two broody silkie's so I decided to let them try to hatch some babies, but when my laying hens go in the coop to lay an egg, instead of going to the box that they normally go to, they kick the broody's off those eggs and lay in that...
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    How many silkie's does it take to hatch a batch of eggs?

    Apparently two lol
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    I have a broody silkie

    My silkie has gone broody so I decided to let her try to hatch some eggs. She is sitting on 3 large eggs, a silkie egg, and a banty egg. It may be too much for her cause she's tiny, but I'm overflowing with eggs so I just let her keep what she choose to sit on. Is there anything special that I...
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    How do you find good breeders?

    I have been screwed over FOUR times now by local breeders. I try to buy from local people because I've heard horror stories about buying from hatcheries. Plus live in OK, where it gets close to 100 degrees right now, and I feel bad about shipping chicks in that kind of weather, but good grief...
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    Is this a meat chicken?!

    I posted in the raising baby chicks forum before I realized that this forum existed Haha but I still have the same question. Is this little chick a meat chicken? My husband picked them up for me about three weeks ago and he was supposed to be picking up 3 wheaten Marans. As soon as I saw this...
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    Is this a meat chicken?!

    I bought 3 "wheaten Marans" from a guy and all three of them look COMPLETELY different from each other. I sent my husband to pick them up and as soon as I saw this one I had a suspicion that it was a meat chicken. We've had it for about 3 weeks now and it's way bigger than its "siblings" and it...
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    Gnats

    I noticed today that my chickens are being swarmed with gnats. I checked for mites or lice and as far as I know we don't have an issue with that but there are sooo many gnats on them. What do I do about it?
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    HELP!! Hurt chick.

    One of my chicks got out of its pen and one of the hens took a chunk out of the chicks neck. It's missing most of the skin on its neck. I brought it inside and it's in a little box with food and water, but is there anything else that I should do for it? It's eating and drinking and it's acting...
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    Bugs in the nesting box

    What can I do about bugs in the nesting boxes? There are ants in one box then another one has swarms of Mosquitos. I don't want to put poison down because I don't want to hurt the chickens. I don't see any any trails leading up to the box. It will just be a random ant or two. Any ideas on what I...
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    Escapee

    Is there a way to keep a chicken from jumping the fence? It's only a 4 ft chain link fence so I'm not sure what to do. I let my chickens free range during the day but one of them keeps jumping out of our back yard. I'm afraid she is going to jump out when the neighbors dog is out and it's going...
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    Table foods

    What table foods are ok for chickens and how much? Should I limit what they get? Do I have to do anything to it first, like chop it up for them, or do I just throw it out there? How do you keep ants from getting the food? Or will that just be extra protein for the girls? Sorry for the millions...
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