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    Sudden hen death, no apparent cause, what do I look for in a necropsy?

    I just found my last bielefelder in the same manor!! No wounds just on her belly in the coop with her head laid down. I got mine from valley hatchery. She was only 7 months.
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    HELP! chick got stuck betw feeder & wall

    She passed... I think it is my fault
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    HELP! chick got stuck betw feeder & wall

    Here are pictures of my little girl. She is the smallest of my 3 bielefelders
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    HELP! chick got stuck betw feeder & wall

    This is our current brooder set up. We will be moving to something bigger in around a week. I was going to put my weak one in her own brooder but am struggling to find something big enough for the MHP since we don’t have two of the heat lamps. So I picked a big salad clam shell out of recycling...
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    HELP! chick got stuck betw feeder & wall

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    HELP! chick got stuck betw feeder & wall

    Can I separate and either use the mama heating pad for her or maybe just put the heating pad down and her lay on it? The others have a heat lamp.
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    HELP! chick got stuck betw feeder & wall

    she was hatched on the 7th. they arrived to us via usps on the 9th.
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    HELP! chick got stuck betw feeder & wall

    Help one of my bielefelder chickc got stuck between the feeder and the wall of the brooder over night. She was a bit lethargic prior to this but now she seems very weak. She is getting walked on by the others. She will still chirp if I pick her up but there is no resistance. I tried to give her...
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    First Timer Here

    Hello! First time getting chicks here. We ordered 22 to be here this week and I have nothing ready. We ordered barred rocks, Buff orpingtons, black laced wyandotte, biefelders, & Rhode Island Reds. We wanted them for eggs but figured it may not be bad to have some for meat if we needed it...
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    Raised Bed for Brooder?

    What are thoughts on using a metal raised bed as a brooder? I'm struggling to find something affordable for 22 chicks. We are in Michigan so it is still pretty cold and my husband is in the process of building a coop that he will run electricity to. We do not have a garage and only a finished...
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