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    Chick not sleeping, flying against box

    I am pretty sure it was the same thing it was chirping loudly and it's feathers were all matted down around it's head when we found it the next morning. I don't understand because it was the two of them in there they should have been happy right or do they need more than that? I just couldn't...
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    Chick not sleeping, flying against box

    Thank you for all of the suggestions, I am convinced that you saved her life. I put in a large stuffed animal because that is all I had and kept it at the lower temperature. I also put in a hand towel squished up with an indentation in it. I didn't have a mirror. Who knew a chick could get...
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    Chick not sleeping, flying against box

    the temp says 80 tried to move it up to 90 but then it freeked out more
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    Chick not sleeping, flying against box

    It seems to be panting and its little heart is racing, don't think I am doing it much good
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    Chick not sleeping, flying against box

    I am holding it and it seems calmer, do I just hold it all night? It seems pretty warm and keeps pecking my hand.
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    Chick not sleeping, flying against box

    I did put one in and now it is using it as a platform to try to fly out of the box. Does it matter what type of stuffed animal?
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    Chick not sleeping, flying against box

    It is going to cheep itself to death.
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    Chick not sleeping, flying against box

    Still cheeping away
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    Chick not sleeping, flying against box

    Well what if it is ill, I don't want to lose the ones I have been raising for four weeks over some chick I didn't even want.
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    Chick not sleeping, flying against box

    Well what do I do? Throw it in with the big ones? They are mostly asleep so maybe it would work?
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    Chick not sleeping, flying against box

    I didn't actually say it but this is one lone chick in a box it can hear the other chicks but can't see or interact with them.
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    Chick not sleeping, flying against box

    1) What type of bird , age and weight. Black sex link, 6 days 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Eats, drinks water, won't sleep, going towards edge of box, peeping shrilly for five hours on and off, Flys against side of box like it wants to get out, feathers around neck matted. 3) How long...
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    New baby chicks adding to four week old chicks???

    Yea I couldn't believe it when they showed up at my door with their "present". Very thoughtful and who is going to turn away cute little fluff balls but now I am stressing about it. They aren't the same as my others, they got us two black sex links and the rest are a mix of white, blue laced...
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    New baby chicks adding to four week old chicks???

    My little girls friend's mom thought it would be cute to gift us another two baby chicks, problem is our other babies are already 4 weeks old and almost fully feathered and I was going to put them outside in another two weeks. I don't want to keep them seperated too long because I want them to...
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    The Mating And Breeding Of Poultry Thread!!!

    Is there a software where I can input the different breeds and figure out what the progeny would look like? For example if I cross a sebright with a bantam partridge Rock, or a silver pencilled rock? (for the kids) Should I use a male as the rock or the female as the rock, etc.? I want to be...
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    The Wyandotte Thread

    I am wanting to create a self-perpetuating flock but want some variety, can I just get a bunch of different Wyandottes and keep a roo and let them make babies? I have no idea, I don't mind reading but searching for the answers is time consuming, books or someone experienced to give me the...
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    Chicken LORE Project - Find & Submit Local Chicken Laws & Ordinances

    We are moving back to my husband's home town of Anacortes WA and of course I wanted to know if I could have chickens so this is what I found out. The new ordinance goes into effect June 7th, hopefully, and so talk about good timing. Here is an article that outlines the new ordinance...
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    Westminster, Colorado Underground Chicken Movement

    Thanks for the help! I was trying to think like a politician and what might pass for a new ordinance on chickens, but I should leave that part to them. Here is another idea: (from the city code under 6-7-12) (E) Exceptions: The prohibitions in subsections (B) and (C) of this Section shall...
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    Update Sick Baby! Got my babies this morning! Have Questions!

    The chics slept all right next to eachother on the edge of the heatlamps cast and have enough room to move away from the heat. I did notice they are not chirping as loudly and high pitched as before and seem much happier. They are so Dang CUTE! I have been watching them like crazy, even the...
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    Update Sick Baby! Got my babies this morning! Have Questions!

    They are doing much better, everyone is up and healthy looking. Thanks for the help. I have them in a 3x2 playpen lined with cardboard and newspaper with about an inch of pine shavings. I had a 250 w red bulb and a 150 w white bulb over it. I turned off the white bulb and they seem to be...
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