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    Safe to eat eggs from hen eating medicated chick starter?

    Until about 8 weeks ago I had just one lone barred rock hen who despite being at least 10 months old has only laid a few times and not at all since December. So when our chicks got old enough to move out to the big coop and there were no signs flock integration troubles I wasn't worried if she...
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    parakeet grit with calcium okay?

    Our six chicks are a little more than a month old now, and my wife and son are dying to give them some treats other than chick starter. I know if we do give them occasional treats they will also need grit, since it is too cold to get them outside yet. Several other posts here have mentioned that...
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    Is my sex linked pullet chick actually a cockerel?

    First time raising chicks. We drove to a nearby hatchery and picked out three day-old pullet chicks from the brooder marked Gold Sex Link and three three-day old RIRs. The RIRs showed a lot of variation in color and feathering even that early on, but the GSLs were basically identical. But over...
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    Reduce wasted feed?

    This is my first time brooding chicks. We picked up 6 3-day olds from a local hatchery and they are doing great. Unfortunately, we seem to be going through a lot of feed. We have one of those round galvanized metal feeders that attaches to a quart jar. I'm refilling basically every day, but it...
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    Coop with a second floor?

    I live in the city with a small yard. I have a small (100ish square foot) run and a very small coop for four hens. I also let them out into our fenced yard on the weekends and summer evenings. I've been thinking that if I relocated my coop to the other end of the run that it would be easier...
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    UPDATE (good news): Small Puncture wound, air escaping

    Somehow after three months in their new coop/run my wing-clipped Barred Rock got over a 6' fence and was attacked by a dog before my wife could rescue her. Remarkably, she seems to be in pretty good spirits, and unfortunately even managed to lay her first egg. She has lost about a 3 inch square...
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    PTSD chicken or is something else wrong?

    I've got a gut feeling there is something I'm doing wrong or may be missing here, although to read the other posts I probably just have a freaked out chicken. I hope you all won't mind to double-check me. I'm going to start from the top: 1)My first flock. In late September I got an Austrolorp...
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