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    Are these brooder panels too short?

    Okay- I just tried to proofread this and realized I'm writing a book. I hope I'm not rambling. I have made some horrible mistakes with the chicks I got in February. I've lost a good chunk of my chicks. They are all Rhode Island Reds and will be 10 weeks old Wednesday. I'm mad about losing...
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    Chicks piling on top of each other. Cold?

    My Rhode Island Red chicks are 8 1/2 weeks old. They are out of the brooder, no heat lamps, hanging out with my hens. Last week I lost 5 chicks in one night. It looked like the chicks huddled up with the hens, sleeping on the floor of the coop, and some of them got trampled. Today I went out...
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    I forgot to close the coop

    The rest of the family went on vacation yesterday. After the circus of getting them out the door, and to the airport, I came back and did my morning chores. I grabbed the eggs in the afternoon and then made supper. Then I enjoyed a (very rare) quiet evening- and forgot to go back outside and...
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    My chicks got crushed in the coop

    I got 50 Rhode Island Red chicks to expand my flock. I haven't lost any in 8 weeks. I merged the flock, everybody is getting along. Everybody has food and water. The chicks have been keeping to themselves a lot. At night they have their own little corner in the coop. They still like to...
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    Leg band for chicks?

    I now have a multi-generation flock. 9 month old Rhode Island Red Hens and 8 week old chicks. I bought two boxes of 16mm plastic leg bands- blue and yellow. They fit perfectly on the 9 month old hens. But, since I'm chasing around all my hens, to get the leg bands on, I'm wondering if I...
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    Do chicks make laying hens nervous?

    My chicks will be 7 weeks old Wednesday. I've had them in a brooder, in the coop. When they were 4 weeks old I shut off the heat lamp and opened up the brooder. They've been separated from the hens with chicken wire. Last Friday I took down the chicken wire and they started mingling. The...
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    Is an 8 week old RIR tall enough?

    I've got a flock of Rhode Island Reds. Half of them are 8 months old. The other half are 5 weeks old. I want to get new feeders. The ones I'm looking at are 7.75 inches tall. The hens have met the chicks, but are separated by chicken wire. I was planning on integrating the flock at about 8...
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    9 month old hen laying fairy egg?

    My hens are 9 months old and consistently lay medium, large, and xtra large eggs. But, in the past week I've gotten a small egg and fairy egg. How does work? Could a hen stop laying and start over? Is it possible I have a hen that took 9 months to start laying?
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    Is this molting?

    My hens are 8 1/2 months old. About a quarter of my hens have a light spot like this on their sides, above the leg. A couple of hens looked like they were missing feathers on their backs when they were out in the rain. I didn't get a pic and I looked for them this morning, but I couldn't...
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    Question on Rhode Island Red molting and laying?

    I've read a bunch of stuff here and other places on molting but I'm specifically wondering about Rhode Island Reds. This is the first year I've had chickens so I want to make sure I do it right and take good care of my little girls. Plus, we got them to lay eggs and I want to keep my egg...
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    Hens aren't laying could it be cold?

    I have 43 Rhode Island Red hens. They're 8 months old. I typically get between 38-40 eggs a day. But for the past 3 days I have gotten fewer and fewer eggs. Today I only got 25. I have a light- regular not heat lamp- that comes on in the morning so they get a total of 14 hours of light. I...
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    How long till they lay bigger eggs?

    I'm in the pacific northwest and have a small flock of almost 50 hens. They're Road Island Reds and started laying about a month ago. I know it's getting colder and darker so I'm only averaging 18 eggs a day. I figure that will go up when we get to spring. The thing that worries me is the...
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