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    Any roos among my nine week old chickens?

    I have three nine week old chickens that are not sexed. I have two Lavender Orpingtons and a Barred Plymouth Rock. The slightly smaller lavender has an upright tail and seems to have larger waddles and comb? But not by much. The largest is either the other lavender or the Plymouth rock. The...
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    The Pains of Pullets

    So. My four week old pullets had their second day outside today. With access to the run for the first time. They finally explored it. And for the next three hours they were roaming around loving it. But then it was getting cold and dusk. So I wanted to get them in. Oh my god. They have access to...
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    Toys for chickens

    I have helped raise over a hundred chickens (and five or six ducks), and have never thought about toys and stimulation for them until now. I have recently gotten back into the hobby after moving back to the city and selling/giving away all our birds. Now I have three pullets of my own. I...
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    Scratch marks and an inflamed foot?

    This must of happened over night and I just now noticed it the second time today I have handled them. My favorite four week old chick, Lemon, has a very swollen foot with scratch marks on the top of her foot? Or are those something else? I soaked her foot in epsom salt water and then applied...
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    A very interesting discovery

    I have been raising my chicks for officially two weeks today (they are three weeks old). They have been kept in my room next to my baseboard heater with a heat lamp. Well. At night I've had to unplug the lamp and cover their tote with a blanket. And they have been doing amazing. They don't even...
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    Newbie introduction

    I live in a pretty layed back part of a growing city. I used to live on a large mountain with an evergreen forest with over sixty chickens. And about six roosters or so. That was my mother's farm. But that did not work out for us. Most of the people were only there for vacations. So us and a...
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