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It is hard to tell your chick's gender until you hear it crowing or not. Some hens have larger combs so combs don't always confirm it. Just my piece of advice.
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If you go to a store like tractor supply co, you might be able to find all/most of these breeds I'm about to share as chirpy little chicks.
White eggs: Leghorns would be the best. They are good egg-layers that will lay plenty of white eggs. Maybe silkies, but I've never had a silkie so I'm not...
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We didn't build our coop and we bought it, but I can still give you recommendations.
For the windows, maybe not on the wind side. It depends on your climate, but you don't want cold air blowing directly onto your hens at night in the winter. Our coop has screen windows that are...
There isn't much you can do. Trying to interfere with the nest next year will probably make the parents abandon it. The parents just need to build their nest in a new tree or in a new area to avoid the problem. It is good that you care about the poor babies though! :hit:(
I personally like to keep the feed inside the coop so they can eat it before they go to bed at night, but if you like keeping it in the run, go ahead. As long as the weather is fine, it doesn't matter whether or not you keep the food in the coop or the run.:p
I think that you're right to be worried. My chickens always squat or hang their tails low if they are sick or have a problem. Keep checking on him, and if any other signs of sickness, like strange poop, shallow breathing, isolation, etc.. think about taking action. Or maybe his tail was hurt if...
Combs can sometimes be abnormally big or colorful. The defining moment when you know your chick is a cockerel is when it begins to crow. Maybe for the certain breed, it is an obvious strange comb, but unless it is crowing, it isn't enough evidence to guarantee that your chick is a cockerel.
I would say maybe even up to 30 hens, as long as there are enough nesting boxes and roost space. If they're free ranged all day, the coop part shouldn't matter quite so much.
My math: 10x12 coop is 120ft squared area, so divide by 4 for 4 ft per chicken and you get 30 chickens.
Most places say...
To me, it looks too early to tell. Maybe not to other people. Really, the first crow is the defining thing to tell the sex of your chick. And if the chicken lays an egg, but the roosters will start crowing before hens start to lay, at least in my experience.
If you want real info and not just...
Maybe the chicks got injured during transport. It may have shown up early if this was true, but who knows. Keep giving the chick the water and food closeby so it doesn't have to struggle too much.
That sounds like a tough situation. My chicks have never eaten their pine shaving bedding, so it sounds like one chick tried it and it must have caught on in your brood.
You don't want them to eat too much of it, so maybe switch to newspaper or paper towels. Talk to someone at your Tractor and...
It could really be anything. I wouldn't know what to do either in your situation. If the other chicks peck at the chick, consider separating her for a little while so she can recover without being hurt more. I would normally recommend continuing to clean her butt, but you may make things worse...