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I think that usually the access to the next boxes are on the end because it makes it easier for people to get the eggs out without having to go into the run. Saves people from getting muddy/poopy shoes. Other than that, I don't see any reason why nothing that you have laid out would be any...

Well, so far more good news this morning. Her one eye is looking great, the fuzz around it all looked clear and dry, though it's a bit darker there than in other places. The other side the eye looked clear but still a little like the fuzz was wet. (Though it's not wet and when I touch it it...

Thank you so much for the advice everyone. I will definitely try making a mash mixture tomorrow. I did get her to eat some meal worms tonight, and I was really relieved and excited about that. I'll keep up the veterycin gel and see if I can get some vitamins to put in the water too. I'm...

So we got this little pekin duckling, who was being taken care of by someone who didn't really know anything about ducks but was just trying to keep it alive when his son brought it home and said he found it along the road. He was feeding it cornbread and water and bringing it outside to "swim"...

Thanks, I keep hoping that the black and white one will turn out to be a hen...but I've been thinking rooster for a while now. It doesn't act like the other rooster though..and it's still not crowing. The black one seems to have a single comb, it's really small and black right now with a...

That one is about 14 and a half weeks old. I'm concerned because of the comb/wattles...should they really be this big/red so soon? she/he has had them for a while and they don't really seem to be getting any redder..but they are growing a little. Here's a full shot of that one, from...

I have some teenager chicks ranging from about 9 weeks to 12 weeks. There's a few I'm almost certain are roosters, a few that I'm pretty sure are hens...and then there's these two who really have me guessing. First up is this cochin...I'm assuming silver laced mixed with something else, I'm...

I've been keeping my eye out on this one for a while. I have two younger chicks that are redder and are pretty obvious roos but this one still has me guessing. The one I'm wondering about is the silver laced cochin mix..the larger speckled chicken in the first pic which is the main chick in...

Those are a few better pictures of the one that I was just about certain was a roo. The comb is bigger than the other EE for sure, plus it's pretty red. Could it still be a hen? We're only wanting to keep one rooster. The others I'll have to rehome. We don't have enough hens to go around...

NN#1 I THINK has a pea comb? but maybe it's a single..the comb itself is pretty small, it's just really pink. I'm hoping hen because we only want to keep one roo and we are keeping the little white EE roo.

I have 6 chicks that I am trying to guess the genders on. Well, five..one I'm convinced is a roo already. One of them I'm also trying to guess breed. This one is an EE, we'll call her EE #1. I'm pretty sure hen. She's 6 weeks old. This is the one I'm trying to guess breed. I'm...

I have an EE hen who was always pretty bold and pecky when she was younger. Once we put them in with our older hens she calmed that down since there was an existing hen already at the top of the pecking order and she was taught her place, but until then she was fairly aggressive and acted a...

My coop door is never closed. If I need to close them in there I put something in front of the door opening, but there isn't an actual door since they have a secure run surrounding the coop entirely.

Well, they made it through their first night! I checked them before I went to bed at 12am and they were still awake but they were in the box part and happily scratching around in all of the shavings. This morning I went out and they're laying in the grass randomly munching on some grass blades...

Oh no! My favorite chicks are still inside, I'm having issues with the idea of them being outside ....like ever...LOL because they're so cuddly and I have never had cuddly chicks before!

I'd have done the same thing! Actually I don't know if I'd be heroic enough to grab my chicks...maybe if they were within reach....and then I'd run and scream for my husband and then hide in a corner while he took care of it LOL. I can be a country girl when it comes to cleaning out poopy coops...

Holy cow that snake is scary! I've never seen any kind of snake around here except those little worm snakes. I live in a pretty residential area with no woods around, so I think we get less predators. Well, I got the cloth, set it up, and the two older ones are out there this evening and...

Ok I think I am going to go to Lowe's and get a little more hardware cloth just to make sure they can't get out in the cracks where the door is, and then I'll try them out. I am just so used to reading about the little brooder tubs, but it does seem like they'd be happier outside where they...

We have 6 baby chicks right now. Two are about 2-3 weeks and then 4 are almost 1 week. Right now I have them in two separate brooder tubs. The older two are usually in the garage and do not have a light on them much at all, sometimes a 60 watt bulb if they seem chilly. The younger ones right...

Oh, they're also not stuck in the coop even during rain. We have a covered deck attached to their coop which is 6 feet by 6 feet, so they have that to run around on or roost on in the fresh air or they can go under the whole coop which has about 60 sf of walking area, which is what they usually...