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    Which puppy pads are safest??

    Which puppy pads are safest? They all seem to have scents or carbon.. is that safe for chicks? 🤔🤷🏼‍♀️ Our daughter recently came home from college after an extended illness. Now that she lives with us, she's needing something to focus on while she's recovering, and apparently, zombie chickens...
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    Raised coop with linoleum flooring in SE VA. Should I have insulation under their floor to prevent frostbitten feet?

    Hello all! Living in Southeast Virginia, it rarely gets very cold here, but this is my first winter with chickens, so please excuse the fretting (and the unfinished paint job on the outside of the coop- I'm waiting for warm enough weather to finish it!) This week, it's dropping down below...
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    Aggressive hen taking over a nesting box, but not laying. Is anyone else experiencing this?

    I have one Easter Egger who has gone from being the timid one in our flock (originally named 'Chicken Little'), to taking on our bossiest hen and kicking her out of their favorite nesting box, but then she doesn't even lay an egg. I'm not talking about C.L. just being bossy back. We're talking...
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    Heavy clay under topsoil, what to use in the run?

    Living in our area of SE Virginia, there's a lot of heavy clay under the top 10-12" of soil. I was going to use sand in our run, as we've got a lot of high humidity, and I'd like to avoid mold in the run. HOWEVER, sand + heavy clay soil = horribly dry, hard dirt, which tends to repel worms &...
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    Heat Reactive Color Changing Egg??

    Today, in the wonderful world of, 'What The Heck???' I present to you an egg I just brought in from our coop to our kitchen. It looked like a really pale greenish-blue, but when I went to put it down, I saw where my fingers had been on it were now a lighter blue, which threw me a bit! Have you...
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    Pecked, or Pox?

    This is Kowalski, my six month old Black Copper Marans chicken nemesis. Another chicken can lay an egg next to her and she'll ignore it, but if she sees me reaching for it, she'll fight me for it and break it, if she can get to it first. She also has developed a taste for my fingers. She is a...
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    Window/ventilation placement help?

    Hello BYCers! We bought our chicks at the wrong time of year for newbies, & we're trying to rush to get their coop finished as quickly as possible (thankfully, the run is mostly done aside from the last section of hardware cloth & more of it for under the coop). My question is- where should...
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    Two of my hens have started laying!

    I have Easter Eggers, Black Copper Marans, and a Prairie Bluebell Egger. According to everything I'd read, that was the expected laying order. Apparently, my girls didn't get the memo, because one of our Marans has now laid three small eggs over the past week, and our Bluebell just laid a...
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    Blood in stool (1st time with this 4 me)

    I know this has been posted by so many people, but I also have seen pretty much every one of them post pictures of the poo for verification, so, sorry, but here it is. Is this lining, something I need to worry about, or what? My flock is eight chicks, ages 5 to 7 weeks old. The two 7 week old...
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    Need a Watering Solution for Inside brooder

    I've got eight, 6.5 to 8 weeks old, rambunctious birds (big BCMs, E.E.s & little, spazzy Prairie Bluebell Eggers) who are waiting for my husband to get their coop and run made. We've got the wood, just waiting for it to finish drying so we can get started. My problem is that these chicks are...
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    Trying out names for my baby chicks 😍

    Hello! I just got six chicks yesterday. Three BCMs & three EEs. The Marans seem to be maybe 4-7 days older than the EEs, and they're bossier than I expected them to be. I'd always read they were docile, but they Love to peck at me, particularly at my wedding band. I'm thinking of calling them...
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    New Chicklet Mom in VA

    First time chicken Mom, here. After loads of research (and yet I'll never know enough), I picked up three E.E.s and three Black Copper Marans yesterday (and yes, I now know I missed the 's' in my handle, but I'm considering changing my name entirely, so I'll fix it when I get my ideal name...
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