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    One of my hens seems to have a dried peice of poop covering her vent

    I have a black sexlink hen who currently seems to have a dried piece of poop covering her vent. She seems to be in distress, and is trying to lay. She's eating and drinking normally. What should I do?
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    Winterproofing my coop

    It's starting to get cold, today it snowed for the first time. We have 5 chickens and a small heating pad we're planning on putting in, is there anything else we should do?
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    One of my chickens laid her first egg and seems distressed now that it's gone

    Two of my chickens laid their first eggs today, and we took them from the coop. One of them (who we're pretty sure laid one of the eggs) is now acting fairly distressed. She is clucking very loudly whenever she sees me, and is going up to poke around in the coop much more than usual. We gave...
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    Watering overnight?

    My chickens are spending the night outside for the first time tonight. Our coop has a section for the chickens at night + nesting boxes, and then a mini run, where the feeder and waterer are (we have also a bigger run). We have foxes and raccoons in our neighborhood, so I want to close the door...
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    How tall does the run fence need to be?

    My family's building our chicken run, but we don't know how tall the fence should be so the chickens can't escape. Any advice?
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    Do chicks need their beaks clipped???

    I have 5 chicks, they are 4 weeks old. We have a friend that has other chicks but also got some mature hens and they came with their beaks clipped slightly. I was wondering if this needed to happen?
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    Questions about grit

    My family has 5 chicks, they are two weeks old. We were intending to start giving them grit earlier, but we couldn’t find any for a while. My first question is how much grit should we give them? And then what is the best way to give them grit, in a separate bowl or sprinkled in their feed?
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    Y'know im kinda late at posting this lol

    I got my chicks a week and a half ago. Two red sexlinks and three plymouth rocks. We had some trouble with the plymouth rocks bullying the red sexlinks but separated them for a few days and now they're fine. I joined about a week ago but never really got around to introducing myself so... hi!
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    Chick burying herself in pine shavings

    One of my chicks has recently taken to burying herself in pine shavings. She uses her legs to kick up large amounts of pine and then lies there. her feathers get covered in pine shavings and two others try to remove them. Is there anything wrong?
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    Two cases of pasty butt

    We got our chicks two days ago. We got three plymouth rocks and two red sexlinks. They seemed to be in good health and were running around peeping softly, exept yesterday we had to separate the red sexlinks from the plymouth rocks because two of the plymouth rocks were chasing the red sexlinks...
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    Chicks are pecking beaks

    We just got our chicks yesterday. Three plymouth rocks and two red sexlinks. One of the plymouth rocks started pecking around the beaks of the red sexlinks every chance she could get. The tissue around there started to bleed a little bit. However, we showed the plymouth rock to the water and she...
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