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I better get out there and tell mine the news.. as much as my roosters go to it I guess they must just wear the thick feathers away ..
I suggest you get more hens..
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I have had that happen to me.the chick's crop was packed full of shavings.. what I did to prevent this, I thres in a few handfuls of cracked corn on the floor.. the chicks will peck at the yellow before the shavings.. I would not put chicks on newspaper.. it is too slick and they can...
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I would skip the bathtub altogether.. there is no way ou can stand to have that many chicks in the house for that long..
You say you have a coop.. run your electricity to your coop and set up a brooder in the coop.. then when they get bigger , you just "grow" with them to the next...