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Okay so this morning when I went to let the chickens roam and one of my twelve week old hens is walking funny, she is low to the ground and sitting and when she walks it's like she is tossing her legs out to the sides.... Is this mareks?.. This is my first batch of chickens, I lifted her up and...

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Thank you both - yes they are breeder quality - so I am hoping to see some differences! Even to my untrained eye lol!

HELP PLEASE - I pick up my order of SLW chicks the first week of August - they will be about 5 weeks old and I will have to pick them out of a larger group - they will be unsexed but the woman told me that if I can tell the difference then I can pick which ones I would like - Any advice on how...

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SO - I pick up my order of SLW chicks the first week of August - they will be about 5 weeks old and I will have to pick them out of a larger group - they will be unsexed but the woman told me that if I can tell the difference then I can pick which ones I would like - Any advice on how to tell...

Thank you all! I wanted a few different breeds and I am sure I will adding as well !!!

Quote: Agreed. I have all brahmas in one coop. The other coop has silkies, turkens, speckled sussex, salmon faverolles, polish, easter eggers and a bunch of mixed half-grown chicks. I was looking into adding one brahma bantam as well - but then would I have to separate it? Also what is...

Hello - I am a soon to be new chicken owner and was wondering if you can have any chicken breeds together? I know that you can have a few but is there a limit? Does it matter if I buy an odd number or a single one? I don't want anyone to feel left out lol but I was thinking about RIR, Easter...

Awesome! Yes I will look into that - I just want enough head room too!

Thank you both! I know I will not be using shingles - so maybe the half foot drop will work fine - I am building it two feet above so they can run underneath the coop - I just don't want them to get too hot!

I am in the midst of design/planning for my coop - it will have a shed type roof- but I was wondering about the slope of the actual coop - I'm in Texas so not much snow to worry about here, but I wanted to give them as much room as possible- its a 4x8 coop - 5ft high on one side then sloping...

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Awesome thanks! I was reading about some solar screen too and thinking I could put it on the windows and found a guy that actually does the screens and he said he would give me his scraps - so I am hoping that will help too.

Well the past couple of weeks I have been looking up stuff on BYC and I LOVE all the info I have gotten - I have been busy designing and researching to make my own coop and plan on 6 to 12 chickens to start. Been trying to figure out the best design for Fort Worth, TX area - don't want them...