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    When to move to coop????

    Also, start giving your 5 week plus chicks some grit, in the form of small rocks, like rose quartz that is in the bag of chicken grit that I buy (hopefully smaller grit for the chicks). That helps them grind their food and the bugs, grass, weeds that you give to them! I'm training my girls now...
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    When to move to coop????

    Regarding when to move to layer food... at least 16 weeks, hopefully. Sometimes, you don't have much choice! Find out when your babies will be close to laying. With my Golden Sex Links, and my White Leghorns, they begin laying anywhere from 15 weeks to 18 weeks. You can tell if they are...
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    When to move to coop????

    I usually remove the 175 w brooder lamp at 5-6 weeks, and the night time temps stay in the 50's. They have enough big feathers to stay warm enough at night. Do remember that moving to the coop, and moving to the coop with adult chickens would be two different dates! I wouldn't recommend...
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    Ended Contest #6 Natural Egg Photo Contest - 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong

    Gizmo thinks she is a chicken. She lives with them! She always "helps" me when I gather the eggs...
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    Ended Contest #6 Natural Egg Photo Contest - 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong

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    Comment by 'JRchickchick' in article 'How To Raise Mealworms'

    I am awaiting my first 1000 (from Amazon of all places). After I ordered them, I checked CraigsList and found someone locally who sells them, as well as adult beetles. Now I have a bin of beetles & a bin for the new mealworms! (wanted to get a jumpstart on having PLENTY) I sat and watched Beetle...
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    Comment by 'JRchickchick' in article 'Mealworm Farm Experiences'

    Oh, and next question...for the 3 drawer set-up, how deep are the drawers?
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    Comment by 'JRchickchick' in article 'Mealworm Farm Experiences'

    This is all very helpful. I have 1000 arriving on Monday, and just picked up 75 adult (beetles) yesterday to throw in a second generation of mealies in my start-up (for my chickens for treats). I have them in a plastic shoe bin right now with oatmeal and some egg cartons. I sat and watched...
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    Comment by 'JRchickchick' in article 'How To Raise Mealworms'

    I was looking for dried mealworms on Amazon, and found they sell live ones too. That led me to search Backyard Chickens for HOW TO because, boy, they are expensive, and I have 37 chickens to treat! Less than $13 for 1000 mealworms, many sizes to choose from (small, medium, large, mixed). My...
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    Comment by 'JRchickchick' in article 'How To Raise Mealworms'

    You can buy live mealworms on Amazon! Amazing...less than $15 and you have 1000. I wonder if they smell... I could grow them in a guest bedroom during the winter, and then move them outside during the summer.
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    Chicks pecking each other

    I have found that once you see blood (and the chicks/hens) see blood, they are very curious critters, and will simply peck to see what it is. Unfortunately, it then causes an issue with others doing the same, and the poor babies soon have no tail-feathers and go into a bit of shock. When they go...
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    Amber link

    She definitely looks like my Amber White pullets. In fact, with her having such a red comb/wattles, maybe she is really a HE! I have 6 Ambers Whites this spring, and of the 6, one is sporting bigger, red wattles and comb and is a larger bird than the others...they are almost 12 weeks old now...
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    Is Stumpy a Rooster?

    I love this picture! He/she is so cute! I have a similar predicament...received some free chicks with a bag of feed at the local Coastal, (they do that every spring, first Saturday in April usually) and I thought I had received some White Leghorns. All the little pale yellow chicks looked...
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    Comment by 'JRchickchick' in article 'How To Socialize Baby Chickens'

    Talking to the chicks gently when you walk over to them gets them used to your voice, and to humans. Heck, I talk to my chickens now! Especially when I gather eggs, and a hen is still on the nest. Often with that, I'll bring them a small handful of chicken scratch to let them know that my hand...
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    How long do eggs last?

    So, I was just looking in my closet and discovered 5 dozen eggs. These eggs were only washed if necessary (poo/dirt that wouldn't remove with yellow scrubby sponge), put into cartons and then were put in a cardboard box. with no lid, but there was another cardboard box on top, effectively...
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    continuous chick picking?

    I know this is probably too late, as your chicks are another month older. My thought is that your RIR is possibly a roo. The last two years, the two chicks that were bossiest at first and downright mean to others at times were roos. I'm curious if it holds true for you too. I too am dealing...
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    Comment by 'JRchickchick' in article 'How To Socialize Baby Chickens'

    When my girls get old enough, I airpop popcorn, and give them their treat daily in the afternoon, they all come running! That is one way to make sure they all come back from roaming, if you so choose. For the chicks, I did put in little plexiglas windows so they see me coming and aren't...
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    Comment by 'JRchickchick' in article 'How To Socialize Baby Chickens'

    I like to start giving them cooked rice or oatmeal, fairly soon, even and just 3 weeks old, just some on my hands, and talk to them. They soon learn that my hand means treats not to be scared of it. The biggest thing is to go SLOWLY, no fast movements. Some chicks will take to this before...
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    Best Layout for at 4' x 4' coop

    Are you leaving the hen's door open all the time or will you be opening it and closing it morning and night? You might consider a guillotine style door that you can access from outside the pen to open and shut. When it is super COLD out, your hens might appreciate not having that much of a...
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    Chick With Curled Toes

    Thank you everybody for ideas and pictures. My little Golden Sex Link sure was cute, but I didn't look at her feet close enough when I bought her, they tend to wiggle so much when I picked them all up! I now have a little shoe on her made from Duct Tape, but now read that that can be difficult...
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