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    10 Week Old Chicks Afraid To Leave Pen

    So a while back I bought some pullets and put them in a chick pen that's inside my main coop. A few weeks ago I figured the chicks were old enough to introduce to the rest of the flock so I tied the door to their pen open. I added some pallets around the floor of the coop so they'd have places...
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    Repurposed Shed Turned Chicken Coop

    This year we decided that we wanted to get some new chickens. After looking at the cost of some of the big box store chicken coops, I decided it'd be much better, and much cheaper, to just re-purpose and old shed we weren't using into a chicken coop. The interior of the chicken coop is 12' wide...
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    Look But No Touch

    So in just a few weeks my pullets will all be around 8 weeks old. I'm wanting to get them out of their pen and let them out into the coop/run as they choose. I see a lot of folks saying I should introduce them via look but don't touch. Right now the pullets are all in a pen that's inside the...
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    One egg a week ago and nothing since

    I have a couple hens that are still fairly young and just now reaching laying age. One of them did lay an egg last week, though, and I've gotten nothing since. Is this normal for them to not lay again for a while after their first egg? Also, the egg was like gray/blue and very small. Could this...
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    How Much Oyster Shells?

    I'm about to transition my chickies over to an all-flock feed and supplement with oyster shell. My question is, how much of that are they going to eat? Should I put out a large feeder of oyster shell, or will one of the small hanging feeders be large enough to at least last several days? In...
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    Is My Air Flow Sufficient?

    So it's consistently in the 100s now and yesterday one of our new baby chicks died, I assume because it got too hot. I don't know that for sure, because the other 12 chicks seem to be just fine. Admittedly, it could also be because they were out of water for a little bit yesterday afternoon so...
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    What Feed? Pullets, Roosters, and Hens

    So I recently purchased 13 new pullets to add to my flock. Right now they're only a few weeks old so they're still in a separate pen to my "main" flock. The main flock is on layer pellets. The pullets are on starter pellets. My question is, what do I do when I let the pullets out with the main...
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    Help Me ID My Breeds/Gender

    I was given 9 chickens from a friend of mine, who got them from a friend of his. Unfortunately, none of is know what kind of chickens we have, or how many of them are roosters. A few of these I know are roosters, but I'm not 100% sure on the rest, and I don't know the breed of any of them. If...
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    Small Eggs, No Yolk

    I have 17 chickens and all has been well. They all look healthy and the eggs have all looked great, until the last week or so. Now, every day I have 1 egg that is a lot smaller than the others, speckled, and has no yolk. What in the world could be happening here?
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    Is this even real?

    Saw this chicken on Facebook and have never seen one like it before. Is it real? If so, what is it?
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    Black with brown speckled chest

    My parents have 3 of these hens and can't remember what breed they are. I'm sure they're likely a common breed, but I'm clueless.
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    Chickens laying small eggs

    My parents have some chickens that started laying eggs about 3 weeks ago. All the eggs are very small, though. They're like half the size we expected them to be. I should also mention that out of 17 chickens, only 6 of them are laying. These chickens free range all day and have access to laying...
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