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    runt chick

    hello everyone, so back in january I showed little runty. Today he is grown up and my aim the past 2 years has been to breed chickens in the aim of finding the quietest male. So surprisingly there are quite big differences. They can either be louder or quieter. crow a lot or crow little, crow at...
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    chick missing

    I took a picture to commemorate the moment since nobody will believe me otherwise but yep there he was tapping at the floor this morning, showing me to check
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    chick missing

    good news (or bad as it is still a male) but it turns out my dog never ate him. He alerted me there was something behind the fridge this morning so I checked and there he was. Must have been out for a good 24 hours, is still only a 4 week old bantam. I'm just glad to know my dog didn't eat him...
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    Can chicks die of fright?

    some sound advice so far. 1. An aquarium is sealed on 5 sides. Very draft proof so the lid needs to stay completely open even if that lets heat escape. 2. Heat plates are safer than heat lamps because they do not dry the air excessively. 29% humidity is too low. 3. A new lamp should be used...
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    What can you give chicks instead of vitamins if you don't have any?

    good evidence never to help a chick out of the shell. If a chick can't hatch by itself then it's chances of suvival are very slim. I know it can be done but for the 1% of cases where a chick survives it isn't worth it for the other 99%. Once you have dealt with a sick chick crying for a week...
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    chick missing

    Just wanted to share my very bizarre and maybe a bit nasty story. I don't know what exactly happened, I'm just glad it is one of the males I wasn't planning on keeping that is missing. So I went to check on the chick this morning and one had escaped but it was a male, I was very tired and...
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    runt chick

    can't keep them all unfortunately. Another one was born this morning with just a white patch on the front of its neck but this is at least well placed and looks really interesting. Well thanks for the interest. He isn't small and doesn't get bullied even if he might look a bit small. It's just...
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    Drowning Chicks I need some Advice…

    it is possible for chicks to drown and it is possible for them to suffocate in the egg but drowning is ridiculously rare. Out of these 23 none will have drowned. I can see I won't get any upvotes to that statement yet if I said they all drowned I would get 5 likes. I will still say it! The...
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    runt chick

    Currently breeding out my pair of cuckoo bantams. This one is one of my reject males. I am going to keep him to see what he turns into but he's a male, not as strong as his siblings and he has a really strange face marking. One side is grey but the other side is white. Unfortunately I lost my...
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    February Hatch-A-Long

    Nearly one year ago I posted my little dutch cuckoo male. Time flies. He is all grown up now and is my main breeding cockerel. He has now officially become a dad and this is his new offspring, one of them is a week older than the rest
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    Loud Chicken

    So what you are saying is human beings should be as disrespectful to each other without breaking the law? Anything is acceptable as long as you cannot get in trouble for it no matter how many people you end up upsetting? This logic is something I just cannot understand... There is no law...
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    Just amputated a chicken leg

    what with a butchers cleaver?
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    Any ideas on how to make a telephone pole look nice?

    my solution would be to use a cable half the length, so not 150 yards but 75 yards, then place the pole 75 yards away from the house. That way the dog can get to the woods and the house, not slam the cable into pant pots etc while chasing birds and the pole would be much further from the house.
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    First egg is here - normal?

    my first egg was covered in blood this week, must have been quite a strain for her, she's a little bit smaller than the rest and laid a full sized egg first time round. Little trooper, still doing fine.
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    How old are they

    Ok so a bit of backstory, this year I got into chicken keeping again and I hatched 5 hens from eggs. While they were growing up I decided to get a group of adult hens that were already laying eggs. So I got 3 dutch bantams to join my other 5. These 3 new ones were sold as 1 year old. They...
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    Pullets Stopped Laying

    just my little tidbit, some of mine completely stopped laying when some new neighbors moved in. I knew they were already upsetting me with their loud shouting, constant banging and shining their newly installed outdoor lighting onto my yard. That's right it was too bright to shine it into theirs...
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    41 dead chickens, please help solve the mystery!!

    sorry for your loss. I'm sure you've had chickens in this tractor before and the pictures don't show the whole thing but did they have a sheltered spot where all could be out of the sun for a bit? Heat stroke can kill them even hours after getting overheated. The waterer is empty and bone dry...
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    How dumb are they really???

    erm I'm human and I can't even see an obvious way on the picture. It's not like they are trained german sheperd dogs lol. Why not just give them more water instead of making them walk through a maze
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    Back in business

    hey laura, do you have belgian bantams then? Interesting topic of kissing a rooster. Will it turn into a handsome prince?
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    Premature chick help!!!

    there is no doubt this one needs to be culled. I know you don't want to hear it and will not believe me, I know I wouldn't have to start with but this one will not make it. So it's up to you if you want to give it a week trying. Once the 24 hour crying starts you will probably start to agree...
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