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    Feather growth

    We have a group of baby chicks (that we got as day olds from Murray McMurray) that are now approaching the beginning of their 5th week. Everyone is doing lovely and is basically fully feathered except one little lady who seems to have some difficulty in growing feathers. We have 18 older girls...
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    Official BYC Poll: How Often Do You Clean Your Coop?

    I do deep litter and I'll stir everything around about once a month, but I only swap out the shavings twice a year.
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    Pecked chicken

    Her tongue is deviated to the opposite side of the swelling but we were able to get some aspirin and water into her tonight. Hopefully she can eat something when the swelling is a bit better. Based on what we saw last night, it seems she made a noise that startled the others and they lashed...
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    Pecked chicken

    We noticed one of our ladies was bloody last night so we quarantined her and cleaned her up. This is how she looks today. She is obviously swolen and is having trouble opening and closing her beak and therefore isnt eating or drinking. What should we do!? We can soften some food for her, but...
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    First time with day-olds. Subtitle: "I've got a pecker" and other thoughts.

    I've not noticed her eating them, but it's hard to keep track of over two dozen all at once lol Some egg is easy enough to try. Thanks for the advice!
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    First time with day-olds. Subtitle: "I've got a pecker" and other thoughts.

    We bought 8 week olds last year, but decided to grow our flock in a bit more cost-effective way this year by buying day-olds. That to say, first time with babies. The lady below started pecking/pulling her butt feathers out yesterday. We separated her to clean her up and apply some vetericyn...
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    4 week old chicks & field trip outside - Avian flu?

    Where in NC? I'm out Asheville way and thankfully haven't seen it heard of any cases on this half of the state yet. Still building a run with a roof!
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    Flock growth

    From Murray McMurray, they have a "choice layer" variety that is basically a grab-bag. My wife also picked out: Blue Laced Red Wyandotte (male & female) Buff Orpington Cream Legbar Bielefelder Black Langshans Speckled Sussex Buff Cochins New Hampshire Red
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    Flock growth

    Like many of you, we are planning on growing our flock this year, but with all of the AI going around we are having second thoughts. Our first two batches of hens were bought from a local breeder/hatchery as pullets. However, we are looking to buy quite a few more (I know, chicken math) this...
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