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  1. jonh684

    Deformities or Injuries?

    Thanks for the input. We had them on pine shavings in their box, so I was more concerned about injury from peers (indiscriminant piling on each other, etc.) but they all seem to be coping very well. Only one of them is being considered for breeding duty due to his dominant personality and...
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    What's too cold for 6 week old chicks?

    I'm in the same situation as you (Muskegon area) with 17 five week old chicks I was hoping to be able to move outside this weekend. Instead I threw together a larger brooder in the garage (unheated) with two heat lamps to help get them acclimated to the temperature change until the weather...
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    Deformities or Injuries?

    Hi everybody. I have 17 chicks that are 5-6 weeks old. Today, while moving them to a much larger brooder until the weather warms up a little, that several of them have curled, scrunched, or otherwise abnormal toes. We hatched the chicks ourselves, but got the eggs from a hatchery. The...
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    Suggested websites for buying new chicks?

    I recently ordered some hatching eggs from Meyer, and two of them arrived with very fine cracks in them. We called right away, and they credited the cost to our account, but advised us to incubate them anyway and see, and to wait for a replacement order to see if any of the others failed to...
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