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    Chick hurt by older chicken

    Help! We have chicks in a dog crate in our run. One of our big asshole chickens got one of the little girls and got her really bad 😭 I don’t know what to do - BluKote? What are our chances here? Visible tendon and adipose, no bone. I feel awful, I thought I had them secure enough
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    Chick clicks when breathing

    Hi everybody. I have another sick chick from my batch of recently hatched. She is breathing really hard and making a clicking noise when she does so I am pretty sure it’s some thing respiratory. She also appears to have developed spraddle legs which I have braced but she is fairly weak and...
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    Help please! Baby chick with injured leg

    Hi everyone. This morning I opened up the brooder and found one chick down with an injured leg. She is still feisty and eating and drinking and peeping but I imagine she is in a lot of pain. She doesn’t seem to be able to o put any weight on it. Can I splint this? Or another idea? I’ve seen...
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    Help! Helping a broody hen be a first time mom?

    Hey all! I know this has been a well rehashed topic but i was hoping for some feedback. I have a hen (Belinda) who is, I think, officially broody. After a week or so of extended nest-sitting, she camped out all night in the nest box and has not gotten up for breakfast today. She is a new...
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    enclosing a "free range" space

    hey all! We are talking about spring chicken plans over here and one of those plans is managing the flock in our yard, while protecting them from a few hazards like traffic and dogs. We keep our chickens in our side yard, because we have a pool in the back yard (fenced). We have a good sized...
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    How to raccoon-proof these latches?

    Hey friends! We are prepping our big coop for the girls to move into soon. They’re getting too big in the “baby” coop we have set up in our garage. But I know these latches won’t hold up to a clever raccoon. I bought a different, pad-lockable latch from Lowes today but unfortunately it won’t...
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    Pullet or cockerel? Suspicious hackle feathers

    Hi all! My lavender Orpington, Sweet Pea, is 10 weeks old and I noticed she is getting some suspiciously pointy hackle feathers. I am not sure if Orpingtons are slower developers - is there a chance she could actually be a he? She was sexed at birth, allegedly (haha) but there is always room...
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    To heat or not to heat our transition coop for 6 week old chicks

    Hi everyone! Looking for some advice. We have 4 chicks, hatched 11/1. They have been in a brooder in our spare room and we removed the EcoGlow about 2 weeks ago. However the room stays about 65 degrees F. They are now too big for the brooder (an old foot locker trunk) and we purchased a small...
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    Bald spot or something more?

    Hi everyone! Sorry I feel like I’m posting a lot 😬 but I was checking my chicks over tonight and noticed this bald patch/raised area on my lavender Orpington chick (Sweet Pea). She is one week old today. I wonder if this is a spot where she has been pecked by her sisters, a patch where she is...
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    Sickly chicks - Cocci?

    Hi everyone, I just got chicks in the mail, delivered on Tuesday from mypetchicken.com. Two arrived dead. One passed away on Wednesday. Today, another seems really poorly. Same symptoms as the one who passed: not eating, drinking, lethargic and puffed up and weak. I thought they may have been...
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    Sleepy chick - how can I help?

    Hi all! We just received our baby chicks this morning via USPS (from mypetchicken.com). I know most people don’t raise chicks in fall/winter, but we have the indoor space to keep them safe until they can go out to a coop so I feel good about the choice. We really want eggs in the spring/summer...
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    hello from southern Maine!

    Hi! I'm new here and super excited to get into raising backyard chickens! I am a registered nurse from southern Maine with a husband (teacher) and two kids (7 and 3). We have lots of animal experience: cats, dogs, degus, fish, horses...but never chickens! We were planning to wait for spring, but...
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