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    Too cold for the little ones!

    My little ones are 7 months old, and they live happily with my two year olds. No eggs yet and they're still realllllllly small! A couple have already died because they're just SO small and it got far below freezing. What kind of heat lamp should I use? Should I also get a light in there for egg...
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    What can I possibly do for this pullet?

    My pullet has an ear infection/ water in her ear. She just wants to sleep. She has bad balance and when she wakes up, she tries to shake her head to get whatever's in her ear out of her ear. I'm sitting here with her feeding her yogurt when she opens her eyes, keeping her warm. Is there anything...
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    The customer is not always right...

    Yesterday I was selling eggs to a new customer. First he insisted I must have more eggs because chickens lay twice a day. No no, mine only lay once a day. THEN he said he was a farm boy and could get me a rooster. Um no thanks. I live in a subdivision. Then he kept saying he could get a rooster...
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    chicken clicker training!!!

    check this video out, it's hilarious!!!! you'll really rethink the intellect of your chickens seriously take the time to watch this, you won't regret it
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    so how's it work at tsc?

    do you ever get chicks from tsc that were claimed pullets but turned out roosters? are the different breeds in different brooders? thanks, i can't wait to get chicks!
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    Do red mites make chickens stop laying?

    I haven't even gotten one egg since October And I've noticed red mites. Is it because of that, and also where do I get the stuff to get rid of the mites?
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    So what's the deal with vegetarian fed hens?

    If a hen is supposedly vegetarian fed, does that mean it's never had any meat or bugs in its life or does it mean that it just isn't directly fed meat or bugs? Got into a discussion about this today... I only feed mine chicken feed which is vegetarian but when they run around and free range...
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    Heat lamp

    So before winter, my friend gave me her 3 chickens that she needed to be taken care of just over the winter. She started with 32 but most of them died of predator attacks. We don't have a heat lamp and I haven't gotten a single egg all winter. Anyways, the rooster she gave us was bred for a...
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    Falling down and getting trampled! :( ***CURE****

    My 2 and a half year old isa brown fell down yesterday, and I didn't really pay much attention, just helped her up. But today, I came out and she kept falling down and getting trampled by her sisters! When she was up, she stayed off of her right leg. I looked at it, it's just a little red with...
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    Careless Kids

    In my American History class, we had to research issues and present them in class. Mine of course, was agribusiness, battery hen farming. I explained the conditions of battery hen farms and how easily salmonella spread in these disgusting, cruel conditions. Do you know how they responded? This...
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    Skip to the end: Penicillin Question

    My sex link has been egg bound for 4 days. She is approximately a year and a half old. She lays an egg every day, but 4 days ago she became lethargic and stopped pooping and laying eggs. I witnessed her excrete some nasty white stuff. She eats and drinks very very very little. I have soaked...
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    Early Layer

    One of my Isa brown hens who has been laying for seven months has started laying her eggs very early in the morning. I don't have a problem with this, it's just that she's so lazy that she won't get her fat butt over to the nesting boxes and lays right on the roosting pole and the egg breaks. I...
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    Pullet with problems and can't get into the flock

    I got my white rock pullet as a chick and her chick friends were part of a "bad batch" and all died. She's the only survivor and she lives alone in a dog cage. Before the last one died, we put them in the coop with the rest of the chickens and I watched them and made sure that while they...
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    Chick attacked by Chickens **pics**

    I put my two chicks in the chicken coop with my four adult Isa Browns, but they were separated by a cage the hens wouldn't hurt the chicks. When I wasn't there, the chicks got out of it and the Isas attacked them. One is just fine, but my Leghorn is hurt. She is seven weeks old, a female, and...
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    Tricky Chick Situation

    7 weeks ago, we got 2 white rock chicks. They were kept in a cardboard box brooder and the lamp was raised a tad higher every week or so. Then by using an old farmer's trick, we figured out that one of them was a male, and went to return him. We couldn't keep just one because she got so lonely...
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    Old Broody Hen

    Hi again! Today, I found my old Australorp banty sitting on the fake eggs in my nest box. The nest box is empty with no straw or shavings. She's too old and hasn't laid any eggs since I've had her. We were thinking about going to our local farm and getting 1 fertile egg for her to sit on, but...
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    Excellent Feed

    There is a great feed that I have been using and ALL of my chickens lay every single day! I don't know if Tractor Supply sells it, but it is full of nutrients and everything that your layers need. It smells amazing and it doesn't freeze in the winter. (Trust me, it gets cold in Michigan and...
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    Fox Help! :O

    For a while now, some fox have been digging and trying to get into our coop. They're getting close and it's getting harder and harder to "redecorate" to keep them out. I told my friend and he set up some traps. Turns out they're either very smart or very light weight that they can get in, eat...
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    Weird egg???

    Hi again! Today, I was cleaning out my coop and found an egg mixed with the bedding (same color). It has a tons of brown speckle like bumps near the bottom. I did the water test and it sunk to the bottom. Anyone have any idea what it is/if it's safe to eat? Thanks!
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    Introducing chickens to eachother...

    Hi there! Let me explain... Ok, so a few weeks ago, we got 4 red stars. They don't really peck anything but their food or scratch, so we were kinda worried. A weeks after we got them, my mom surprised me with 4 new chickens (3 hens and one rooster), and since the original pullets aren't used to...
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