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    Blue Egg EE x Buff Orp Roo = Green Egg Layer?

    I've got a brown Easter Egger from Hoover's Hatchery that lays blue eggs. My only roo is a Buff Orp. EE's eggs are fertile and I'm getting ready to start an incubator batch this week. I'd like to put some of her eggs in with the purebred BO eggs to get little easter egger chicks with a chance of...
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    Multiple Chick Issues - is it Me or the Hatchery?

    Ordered 18 chicks from Hoovers Hatchery. Hatched Wednesday 10/10 , arrived last Friday 10/12. Black Austrolorp chick was dead in the box with pasty butt. All 3 barred rock chicks had pasty butt and the smallest BR was doing a drunk chicken walk. I've had to clean, feather trim, coconut oil &...
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    Ventilation Advice: Windows near roosts on a Houston coop? (See pics)

    The 8x10 coop is under construction. We are using Garden Shed plans that my husband modified to add extra windows along the back for ventilation. I just realized that along the solid roosting wall (right hand side when facing porch/entrance), there are windows on each side, north and south, that...
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    Chick Plate or Heating Pad?

    I'm a buy-once-cry-once kind of gal. Which mama hen option (for use in an 8x10 coop in fall in Houston at 75-90 degrees outside) allows 15 chicks to be warm but not burned, is easy to clean poop off of, will be reusable and last for a long time to come? Are you glad you bought a certain brand...
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    If you had it to do over again, what is the perfect brooder?

    Chicks arrive in October (Texas). My hubby does carpentry as a hobby. If you could have any brooder that would work from day one until they go in the coop at age (??), what would your brooder look like? Be like? Size? Would love to see pics if you have any brooders that have been fantastic!
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    Hello!

    Brand new and doing my research before we buy chickens!
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