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  1. MotherOfMany

    Tail feathers a good indicator of sex?

    We have 7 chicks that are about 5 weeks today. One we are CERTAIN he's a roo. The others we are still waiting. Our roo's tail is stubby, lays flat (horizontally), and has a slight curve down towards his feet. Five of my other chicks tails stand very upright and come together making a vertical...
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    Chubby chickie, Help identify please.

    Ok, we have 7 chicks that are about 4-5 weeks old. They were all the same size at purchase but now I have one that is soo much bigger than the rest. It can't make it up to the roost where all of the other babies hang out during the day. It's very timid about jumping off of my lap when I'm...
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    I <3 you guys!

    It seems like every time I log on to find out something that may have just occurred to me... someone has just asked the question and it's been answered. You guys are reading my chicken mind!!
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    All are getting along! Yay!~ Also guesses on mystery chickies (pics)

    Two groups are getting along great! We had an hour of intro time yesterday. Then after all the kiddos went to bed we grouped them back together and they stayed for 2 hours. Today they've all been together since daybreak. So far, great! Any guesses on the mystery chicks? (Pictured below)...
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    Just like everyone else... (pics)

    I see everyone has a post somewhere that says, "We planned on __ but ended up with +__ now" Ours is we planned on 6 but have 13 now. My coop has room for 21. We started with 7 mystery chicks and my husband went to The Feed Pen here in town and came home with 6 Barred Rock pullets . It's...
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    Window of opportunity for integrating groups of chicks??

    I currently have some 3 week olds and am getting some one week olds today. Would it be ok to put them all together in the brooder together?
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    very skittish Rouen

    I have 2 Rouens that are between 3-4 weeks old. One is calm doesn't make too much fuss when you go to pick it up but the other has a flippin' fit if anyone, anything, or any noise comes within 10 feet of it. It starts screaming and running around and into things and just going crazy. Any...
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    They love this

    After being disapointed that they could fit thru the holes in the dog crate we were left wondering where to put these little gals. Then I saw that someone here on BYC used a shower. We have an out of commision shower and they were in this room anyway but able to jump out of the box they were in...
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    small orders for chicks

    other than mypetchicken.com who else allows small orders for babies?
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    Square footage rules

    We are new to chickens so we checked local ordinances before building. Our's calls for a minimum of 5 square feet of space per chicken. Thats coop and run if it's enclosed per the papers. Is this a pretty common number? For our "planned" six we really over-built. We have room enough for 28...
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    About to lose a chick *updated question*

    I'm about to lose a chick. It was the smallest of the group but more feathered out than the rest. Kiddos called "him" Jr. cause he was so wee. I noticed this morning that it was not as active. Then once I saw all of the other peck at it, I isolated it. All day today it's been peeping with...
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    Some help would be appreciated, thanks!

    I had tried to look at feathersite but I live way out and I have terrible dial-up. It took an eternity for one page to load and so I gave up and went to bed. These are the ones I'm trying to figure out what they are:
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    Hiya from South Texas

    Hi! New here and new to chickens. We have just gotten a small group of... Well I guess unidentifiables per my 1st post. So Hi. Please be tolerant, I'm in taking in all I can
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    errrr... what's the difference

    Ok. So we've done tons of reading here and in books that we've purchased. We were all ready to go for our very first chick purchase ever. We went to TSC because they said they had "Reds" when we got there the bins are labeled "Assorted Pullets" and "Assorted Reds". What's the difference? I...
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