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    pecked chicks

    I have 12 6 week old chicks (asstd breeds) Noticed yesterday one was being pecked badly - some blood and missing feathers. Put her in separate cage. Today another has been pecked badly - no blood but lots of missing feathers. Can I put the 2 that have been pecked in one cage? I think my...
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    remodeling coop

    I need to remodel coop to accommodate the new chicks coming the first of April. I have a brooder for them but after that, they will go into the main coop. I am going to re-do my roosts and am wondering if the tiered roosts are preferred for a reason or can you just do level/straight roosts? I...
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    red featherless butt

    I have 11 hens - about half of them have red butts with few or no feathers. I have read old posts and cleaned the whole coop top to bottom, dusted with DE (which I do anyway), cleaned nesting boxes, checked for lice & mites and found none. Everyone seems fine, laying fine, I don't see any...
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    Egg Size

    I have 10 new hens this year - they are 7 months old and have been laying for a couple of months. The first eggs were small (very cute). They are all now average size except 1 - which is still very small. I don't know which hen is laying it, but do you think that is the size it will stay...
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    Help with sick hen...please

    My 4 year old Barred Rock is ailing. We have had flooding for the last several weeks - chicken run wet, muddy, nasty.... hen house is not under water but muddy from me tracking in and out to tend the brooder with babies. To say it is a nasty mess would be an understatement. Yesterday, I noticed...
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    chicken run with tree inside

    I am expanding my chicken run and could go in 2 directions - one way has a nice tree that will give shade in the summer and one has nothing. What I am worried about is that with the tree inside, could predators use it to get to my chickens? Anyone have any thoughts? I live in South Texas, so...
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    fluid sack above eye

    One of my ameracaunas has a sack filled with fluid above her eye. It doesn't seem to bother her and she seems okay but this just came up about 1 week ago. She's 2 years old. Any idea what it is? I can't find anything anywhere. It looks like an inflated part of her comb, but it's not - it's...
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    Droopy wing

    Out of my 16 keets (now 3 weeks old), one of them has a droopy wing. He is otherwise fine - any idea what that might be - they aren't flying yet so I don't know if this will be a problem or not.
  9. linbee

    Advice on Housing

    I have an 8 x 10 portable building with 2 small windows and 2 small wall vents that we converted into our Guinea House. I have never kept any type of poultry, so everything is new to me. I have them in a wire brooder inside their house now (they are almost 3 weeks old). I no longer use the...
  10. linbee

    Pecking other keets

    Can anyone help with a possible reason my almost 2 week old keets are pecking the rear end of one of the other keets? I have moved the pecked keet into a box of his own, but he looks a little stressed. He is smaller than the other keets - would that have anything to do with this? Any help...
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