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  1. MomvdH

    Up at Night

    I have 4 8 week old chicks that we hatched under 2 silkies. Currently they are outside in an Omlet Go Up (where they were hatched), plus run. They have done so great, but the last few nights they have been coming out and walking around at 10:30pm, 1 and 2 am…just walking around in their safe...
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    2week old chicks and temps falling

    I feel so needy asking all these questions, but my 2 silkies each hatched 2 chicks. During brooding and first week, they were separate but nearby(due to egg stealing). This week we let them intermingle during the day and it’s been fine. At night they separated on their own. Tonight, they were...
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    Lump on baby chick chest

    I wonder if someone could look at these photos and give me your thoughts. Our two silkies hatched 2 chicks each last week, and one of them has a pretty large lump on its chest. It is in the area of the crop, so many it’s just a large crop, but it is just noticeably larger than the other 3...
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    Mice in chicken house... any ideas on how to get rid of them? Without harming girls.

    Oh good idea! I bet it would fit in a wire dog crate! Set on end. Thank you!
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    Mice in chicken house... any ideas on how to get rid of them? Without harming girls.

    I realize this is a couple years old now, but can you leave this in the run with the chickens still in there? I want to leave one overnight for the mice, but my girls come out of the coop before I would come out to remove the trap.
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    First time hatching, hatching with a broody hen instead of incubator.

    What happened??? Did you get babies?
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    Odd timing of egg placement under broody

    I’m wondering if it is possible to place hatchery-purchased hatching eggs under a hen who has already been broody for 2 weeks, and expect that she will remain broody for successfully hatching those eggs? I know nothing is guaranteed. We will be away for 5 days at an inconvenient time in this...
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    Molting or picking or ??

    Thank you!
  9. MomvdH

    Molting or picking or ??

    This sweet chicken (about a year old) has had a bald neck for months now. There has never been blood, and I’ve never actually observed anyone pecking or picking her, but it’s what I suspect. No sign of bugs. It just won’t regrow. And now, today, we found some bald spots starting on her...
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    Feather Pecking

    Your set up is amazing and beautiful!
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    Constant Feather Picker-Bearded Only Though, Advice?

    No answers, but following to see what folks share. We have one buff who has had her neck feathers pecked. No blood, but not able to grow back yet. No mites. No other hens affected. Not sure sure who the pecker is, but I have my suspicions.
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    Bald Neck - 10 Months Old

    I’m curious, did you ever figure this out? We have one similar. Only a bit worse. Same observations you had. No sign of mites, though we treated anyway, seems happy and unbothered. But the area just isn’t refeathering. If it is overgrooming by a flock mate, what do you do? Did yours...
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    New on here

    This is an older post, but I have a question about your handicapped chickens.do you keep them in a separate pen? And do you just accept that that is how it will be because they will otherwise get pecked?
  14. MomvdH

    Molting or picking??

    We are a bit worried. Does this look like she is being pecked in the neck, or molting? We are new to chickens (10 months) , and only had experience with one obvious molt. This is our 6 month old Buff Orpington. At first we assumed she was getting pecked, but the patch is growing. So far no...
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    Neck feathers

    Thank you so much for the quick reply. This is our first winter with chickens, and we’ve not even seen a molt to know what it looks like, other than pictures of others…so we were a bit alarmed. And worried. It was nice to read others had 9 month olds with a partial molt in winter as well. I...
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    Neck feathers

    I know this post is a year old, but did you/do you, do anything. We are in an especially cold snap, so it concerns me that her neck is not fluffy and warm. Only one of our 8 has the neck feathers missing. There are pin feathers, it is not bald, and not red.
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    Sex and/or breed help

    Thank you for asking. 1 was a very definite roo. He was the last one we rehomed. It was sad, because he was so, so beautiful, but I’ve enjoyed our little flock much more since he left. I just feel less on guard. 2 is a hen laying lovely specked brown eggs. I still don’t know what breed she...
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    Tips needed for adding chicks to main coop

    Night temps are dipping to mid 50s right now. I weaned them off the heat lamp but it is quite a bit cooler. Daytimes are perfect 70s and sunny! And yes, I put the dog crate with the littles inside the covered run with the bigs. For a few days we didn’t open the dog crate door, just let them...
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    Tips needed for adding chicks to main coop

    We are new to chickens since April. We have 4 five month old hens. One Austria white, one Welsummer, and 2 silkies. We had to rehome 4 roosters. I wanted 8 total for our little coop, so we got 4 chicks - one buff Orpington, two Wyandottes, and one speckled Sussex, who are now 5 weeks old...
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    Cockerels. Make or break behaviors to thin out selection?

    Can I join in on this thread? All the above has been helpful in thinking through our situation. But I’m still unsure. We got 8 barnyard mix chicks in April. 4 turned out to be roosters. We were able to rehome 3, and kept our favorite from Chickhood. He is a marans of some sort, black...
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