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    Pecking Order is a Funny Thing

    I don't know how this little silky out ranks even the two big roosters... But there ya go. She isn't a very agressive chicken, but there she is on the top level every night.
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    My Silkie is roosting

    Interesting out of the 4 silkies I got a few months ago. I went in at night to lock up and I couldn't find my white one. I looked everywhere, then I saw she was up on the roost about 5 feet off the ground up with the big buff orpington and barred rock moms. Huh I guess that just shows, you...
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    5 roosters need home or get to live in freezer

    You pay for shipping and packaging. Birds are free. PM me for pics. two plymouth rock / RIR mix. three buff / RIR mix. So far they are fairly nice and are starting to find their voices. 18-20 weeks old.
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    20 week old chicken can't walk

    My wife notice one of the roosters on top of her one day. They are all about the same age and I thought it was odd she is still a bit young so I was watching and she was the only one the young eager roosters were mounting out of the young ones any way. Then one morning I notice she was moving...
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    Green stuff in my waterer

    I have two waterers. One is a 5 gallon buket and the other is a metal one from the store. I am noticing when I clean them out to put freash water in them they have green alge in them. Mostly around the lid of the 5 gallon bucket. It is white so I can see it better but it is in both. Is...
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    mom loosing interest

    The mom of my 4 week old chicks is loosing interest. I have been letting them out to free range together for over a week now and they all seem to love it. I noticed yesterday that the mom was away from the kids most if not all day and didn't come back in until that night. This morning she...
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    bare spot on chicks behind.

    One of my 9 day old chicks has a bare rear end. Everything looks ok he just doesn't have any fur there. Anything I should worry about?
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    What age to let the chicks out.

    My chicks are a week old today (at least the first ones that hatched are). They were born and have been in here all week. Today I let them run around outside the cage with mom. Mom seemed to enjoy the extra space to scrach around. My question is at what age can I open the floor door and...
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    What sex are my chicks - Lots of pics

    Ok so I had Plymouth Rock, Buff Orpington, and RIR hens all breed to a RIR rooster. Does that make them all sexlinked? Here is what I have I will take a guess and you tell me if I am right. They are 4 - 6 days old. These are my black sexlinked My Guess Rooster My Guess Hen I am...
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    Question about my new chicks

    I have some new chicks this weekend. Looking at the pics on BYC I am pretty sure that the black ones are Plymouth Rocks. I was expecting this because some of the eggs were form those mothers. As I looked all but one have the white spot on their heads except one. Should all Plymouth Rocks...
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    Question about 2 separate hatches of chicks.

    I have two hens in the booding house now. It is hard to tell but they are in the nest boxes and they each have a dong cage in front of them. One was due yesterday and the other hopefully will adopt chicks from my daughter's class when they hatch in 2 weeks. My question is how soon can I...
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    What to do with Chicks from School?

    My daughter's class is hatching out 24 eggs I gave them. When they are done what can I do with them. I really don't want to keep them in the house and baby them until they are bigger. I would love to get one of my hens to mother them. Has anyone ever gotten that to work? I have Buff...
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    Medical Care for Chickens?

    Do I need to do anything for my chickens? Worming, imunizations, etc...? If so how and what do I give them? They are all full grown at this point.
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    Rooster Wanted: Grangeville ID.

    I lost my rooster the other day and I need a new full grown one that can keep up the duties of a good man . They free range around during the day and I like having a rooster around to keep them together and watch out for dangers as well as having fertalized eggs of course. I am not picky about...
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    My first broody hen....

    So my 8 and 9 year old daughters were so excited about having baby chicks they can often be heard coaching the Rooster as to which of the hens he should flert with and the occational cheering, as if they, were at a sporting event...."Get on her! get on her! You can do it! Stay up just a little...
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    Hens don't make it in at night.

    My hens are having a bit of trouble. Not every night but two nights ago one hen was missing and I found her on the other side of the greenhouse roosted on a 4x4 sitting on the ground. Tonight I got home and 7 of them had roosted on the bench my daughters use to stand on to get eggs. Anyway...
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    Introducing a turken to the flock

    I am new to chickens and got lots of great information here so I thought I would post what I have done for other newbies coming along. I have 12 hens at the moment (8 Orpingtons, 3 Plymoth Rocks, and 1 Black Turken adopted from a friend). My friend called and said that the nieghbors dogs killed...
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    My coop design

    I am new to chickens and got lots of great information here so I thought I would post what I have done for other newbies coming along. I have 12 hens at the moment (8 Orpingtons, 3 Plymoth Rocks, and 1 Black Turken adopted from a friend). 1. I used the existing barn for the roof. It is two...
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    New to Chickens (Thanks to everyone)

    Thanks to this site and a few others. I now have 11 chickens and a finished coop. They went on there first outting today. We picked them up 3 days ago and so far we are getting 4 eggs a day. I am sure as they get settled in they will start laying better. Below are some pictures of the coop...
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