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    Vent Gleet

    Could this be vent gleet ? We removed her from the flock last night because she just keeps losing feathers and has hardly any feathers near her vent and it’s very red there too. She has very poopy feathers around there too, we trimmed those feathers with scissors last night. There’s nothing...
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    Frostbitten Rooster

    Need major advice! we’ve been battling some severe frostbite on our rooster. We live in Northern MN where every now and then our nights get down to -20 F. the other night it got down to -12F inside our chicken coop and that’s when our rooster got severe frostbite. He has had frostbite since the...
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    Frozen Poop

    Hey all, So one of our Easter Eggers has a frozen ball of poop on her feathers. It’s getting bigger and bigger and the weather here in Northern MN has been in the negatives the past couple days. We are thinking of bring her inside tonight to let the poop thaw out and hopefully fall off and...
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    Chicken run is a Mud pit

    Our chicken run has been a mud pit for days. We had major storms for a week straight. It’s so wet and muddy, and we have a roof on top so it’s shaded pretty much the entire day. We live in northern MN so our weather is not going to be getting very warm anymore, so it definitely will not dry out...
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    Chickens eating Quinoa

    Can chickens eat uncooked or cooked quinoa?
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    Feeding your chickens egg yolks

    Hey everyone! I am a pastry chef and baker and have a business out of my house, and one of the main desserts I make is the French Macaron. This cookie only uses the egg white of the egg and I don’t have many other recipes that use only egg yolks, so I’m always generating a lot of yolks...
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    Electric fence wire around chicken coop

    Has anyone used an electric wire around their chicken coop? We are building our coop and run now and we have many predators where we live. We live in northern Minnesota, and just recently we have had a 350-400lb black bear come to our front porch twice in search of bird seed. We take all our...
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    When to move chicks to coop outside

    Hi all, I am wondering what age we can move our chicks to the coop. I have seen so many different articles on when to actually let them in the coop outside. We have 14 Easter Egger Hens and they are currently 2 weeks and 2 days. We are starting to build the coop, now that we finally have nice...
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    • 2 week chicks 4 week old chicks climate cold coop easter egger temperature wyandottes
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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    Chicks have stopped using heat plate

    Hi all, We have one week plus a day old chicks. They are Easter Eggers and we have 14 of them. We have been using the Premier 1 heating plate since day one and have no problems with them going under it and getting warm. We found one dead early in the morning today just outside of the heat...
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    • heat heat plate heat plate height premier heat plate raising heat plate temperature week old chick
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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    Heating plate vs heating lamp

    So we just got 15 chicks last week. They are one week old today. They are Easter Eggers and this morning we woke to one suddenly dead. They have all been behaving very good all week, eating drinking and we’ve been giving them electrolyte water and they are on organic starter feed with probiotics...
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    • baby chicks ground temperature heat heat lamp heat plate heat plate for chicks heating sudden death chick temp temperature
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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