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    Oh No!!! My Poor Tomatoes!!!

    I am new to chickens and have some that are seven weeks old. I have read online that chickens will not mess with plants in the nightshade family. We planted 8 tomato plants about a week ago. They have been largely unmolested. My husband said we should put up some netting around the plants to...
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    What are we?

    The chicks are about 2 weeks old. We got them at TSC and believe them to be out of the assorted reds bin. Not really sure if they were Pullets or Straight Run, although they seem to be feathering out fairly fast. They are all single combs. However, Each of their feathers are slightly...
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    Almost 7 weeks old, please tell me one of them is a she (BIG PICS)

    hey all thanks for viewing/help anyway this is my first time raising chickens. They are all almost 7 weeks old, and I'm really thinking I have 1-3 girls of 15 I'm going to show the pics of ones that I think are potentially the pullets. First up is Fudgey, a BA which I "Hope" is a she...also...
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    Mystery Chick. Any Ideas?

    We picked up several chicks at TSC today. They had a clearance bin. All the chicks in the clearance bin were red sex links or all white chicks. There was one chick that was out of place. It was the only chicks in the bin that looked like itself. Since it was only 50 cents we decided to keep...
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    Woot!!! Made a trip to Tractor Supply today! with Pics

    And they had silkie chicks. And a 50 cent bin of chicks. The $0.50 bin chicks were filthy but they looked like assorted reds with some Cornish X in there. We bought 10 red chicks, 5 silkies, and 1 mystery chick. One of the reds. I *think* these are red stars although some have wings...
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    Can chicks yawn or is this crowing?

    We are new and have done a lot of research but some things we are just taking them as they come. Our chicks are almost 5 week old. We had our first crow from an Australorp last night when we turned on the light to check on them. Now we are excited to get more crows. Tonight we noticed that...
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    Flying Chickens

    We're doing our run/pen area for chickens and had questions. How high can chickens 'fly' or jump with their flight feathers clipped? And as they get older and heavier do they stop trying to 'fly' so much. Just wondering to see how much we have to tweak our current ideas, thanks
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    Chickens and the mosquito population

    Sorry if this is the wrong section, couldn't find a more appropriate one. I'm a chicken newbie and was wondering if chickens make a dent in the mosquito population at all? Its getting warmer and I'm dreading the return of mosquitos - they will be free ranging in a pretty big fenced in yard...
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    Quick question about my baby chicks

    Firstly this is my first attempt at keeping chicks so yea go easy on me Anyway I got 15 chicks that are 5 days old now, today I put pine shavings into their brooder. I was using paper towels until now - anyway my question is about Pine shavings in the water, they are constantly kicking the...
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    Hello

    Just stopping in this forum to say hi from NC. Seems like a nice community here Anyway me and my wife finally got our first chickens today(3 days old) after months of reading/researching about them and what nots:) We got 4 Silver and Gold laced Wyandottes, 4 Black australorps and 4...
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