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    Roost Configuration

    Hey everyone. Just finished converting our older shed into a coop for our new girls. I still need to put in the roosts though, and am looking for advice on configuration. In my last coop, which was about 4x as large as this one, I did the roosts all at the same height and parallel to each...
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    Rearranging chicks in brooders

    Hey everyone! We have two brooder boxes going at the moment. The first one has four 4 week old chicks. They include one each Easter Egger, Wyandotte, Speckled Sussex, and a Barred Rock. The other brooder has two 2 week old Salmon Faverolles. The problem we are having is that in the mixed...
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    How do I stop!?

    I just hatched out my first ever chicks yesterday! I just got my r-com mini on Christmas and put eggs in the bator that same day. It only holds three...thank goodness, and yes, I WANTED it that small to KEEP me for hatching out 20 or 30 at a time! Only two eggs were fertile, and they were...
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    First Attempt at Hatching

    I got my first incubator for Christmas (R-com mini) and put three eggs in it on Christmas Day. One egg did not develop (not fertile) but the other two have been doing fine, according to my weak attempt at candleing. The eggs are from my own chickens (that I got as day old chicks last March)...
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    MM/AE Chick Updates

    Well, it's been over 5 weeks since my first chicks showed symptoms of AE. I thought it was time for an update. One month ago this forum was buzzing with stories of AE and the horrible problems that we were all going through, but now...it's almost like it never happened. I even see new people...
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    Cockeral Behavior...Normal?

    I have a 7 week old Ancona Roo who has started to get very aggressive towards all the other chicks. He pecks at them and chases them around constantly. He especially picks on the ones that have had AE problems and splayed leg (as a side effect of the AE). I separated him from the flock...
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    Seven week old cockeral pecking at the girls!

    Is this normal? This is my first time with multiple chickens. I have 3 Ancona roos and 27 assorted breed pullets. All are within a week or two in age (5-7 weeks). They have all been raised together, but now the lead roo, Stripe, has started wanndering around the brooder and harrassing the...
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    Industrial Vegetarian?

    Here is a quote I copied from another thread that got me wondering: "In our own small way, some of us may be trying to make up for the harm that's caused by the callousness of the industiral treatment of animals. After all, we buy the cellophaned wrapped results and throw them on our grills or...
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    Pullet Stuck In Feed Bin

    Just as I was sitting down with my coffee to look over the new topics on BYC, I heard one of my 7 week old chicks cheeping very loudly. It was the kind of cheap that makes you think something is wrong. I went in to the brooder room, but of course, the cheaping stopped. I looked around and...
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    I may have overlooked Spraddle Leg! What to do?

    I have a 5 week old chick who MAY have spraddle leg that got "missed". She is on of my "sick chicks" from MM and has been in the hospital brooder with the other 7 sick ones. I thought it was just the AE, but now I am wondering if it is spraddle leg! She, like the other sick chicks, is MUCH...
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    Trade Cockerals in Spokane Area

    Well, when I ordered my baby chicks back in December (for delivery in March) I did not know very much about them. I want to breed chicks for my own benefit, but I like brown or colored eggs. Of course, not knowing that the Roo will pass on the egg color gene, I got Ancona males because they...
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    Vizsla in the Brooder!

    My brooder is set up in a downstairs storage room, but I've been keeping the door open for ventilation (it was getting stuffy with the door closed. The brooder is surrounded by a dog fence (from when my dog was a puppy) but it is not able to be locked. We are four weeks in, and my dog has NOT...
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    Good News for AE Chicks?

    I am so drained from this ordeal with my MM chicks. I know that there are people out there who have chicks that have shown signs of AE but are hanging on and/or recovering. I want to hear from everyone about some of the "good fight" that's going on. I have 10 (out of the 18 to survive shiping...
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    Electrolytes/Vitamins?

    Hey Everyone, I was reading another thread on here from a few months ago and someone was having a problem with their Silkie. The symptoms sounded exactly like what a lot of our MM chicks have been having (fall over, head/neck issues, drunken walk). Another member told her that the...
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    Golden Penciled Hamburg

    Hey Chicken Enthusiasts! I am having a problem with one of my chicks. I believe that she is a Golden Penciled Hamburg. I ordered her from MM (which does not sell bantam in this variety). Unfrotunately, she is part of my order that was hatched on 3/01/08, which as some of you may know, many...
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    Chick won't grow!

    I have one chick from my MM order that has literally not grown AT ALL. She is now 19 days old and is the exact same size as the day old chicks I just got yesterday from my local feed store. I believe that she is my Golden Penciled Hamburg. She does NOT have any of the "mystery illness"...
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