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    Favorite Nesting Boxes

    My chickens are awfully picky when it comes to where they lay. I have tried all sorts of bins and totes and a built in set of boxes but so far all they like is a board across two of the corners of the coop, so that there's a little triangle in the corner, filled with shavings. They won't lay...
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    Bantam Chick Breeds

    I have three varieties of bantam chicks and was hoping to figure out what they might look like as adults. Here are some pictures of each kind. I have five total of these, with varying amounts of light and dark on them. Six total of these. Are these Old English Game bantams...
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    Big Enough for Nights in the 30s?

    Hello! I am more than ready to have these little turds out in the coop where they belong, but tonight is supposed to be 38 and I'm not sure if they are big enough and feathered enough for that yet. I think the bigger ones are around 7 weeks now and the little black ones around 5 weeks. What...
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    Suspicious of this Amberlink (Cockerel?)

    I'm back with another question. :) I bought all of my chicks as sexed pullets, but this amberlink has me suspicious. It is one of the smaller ones out of the four and it doesn't seem to be dominant but its comb is taller. I can't really tell if its tail is different or not and they all have...
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    Getting over the Paranoia of Putting them Out

    Hi all, This is my first time raising chickens myself and I am wondering... how on earth do you get over the paranoia of putting them outside? I just moved to Ohio from California and I'm having a hard time not checking in on them constantly. All of my neighbors have chickens, most of them...
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    What breed are these?

    I got these pullets at Tractor Supply almost three weeks ago. I had gotten some white and brown sex links and mentioned to the employee that it would be nice to have some black ones too but I only wanted pullets (the black ones they had were straight run). She offered me some of the black...
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