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Hi folks! I'm creating a brooder out of a refrigerator box(3.5W x 7L x 2.5H). Wondering how many nipples I should install in each bottle, and how many bottles I should provide for 25 chicks? These bottles I am using hold 1.5 quarts of water each above the level of the nipples.

I have 10 sixteen month old hens(sex links, RIRs, PBR) that started laying last year in July/August. Last winter I added supplemental lighting(6am-8pm) started about this time of year(august) and quit when the days got longer than 14 hrs. The hens look great, red combs, shiny appearance...

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Hi folks got home from work today and it appears my boss biddie has a ripped comb and it looked like a blood bath in the coop. Every one was calm and getting along and it appears as if the bleeding had stopped. I brought her in the house rinsed her head to investigate injury and rubbed vasoline...

Hello Folks, Last night was the first hard freeze my coop and pullets have experienced. you can see the window in the front, I have a Plexiglas insert that slides in gulliteen style, as does the door going out to the run. Both of these I close at night, for safety and drafts. When I went out...

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Amber White Sex Link pullet 24 weeks just strted laying, 4.5 lbs 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Left wing drooping almost/sometimes to the ground, seems to limp a bit on left...

I looked at the egg stats tonight and I had 3 pullets start laying in early August at 17-19 weeks old, they are now 22 and 23 weeks old. I consistently get 3-5 good eggs(some smaller but nice hard shelled normal or double yolkers) a day now and have since, had a few 6 egg days. Out of 112...

I have 8 pullets, raised from day old's together, a mix of hatchery stock layer breeds that are 22 and 23 weeks old...(2golden SL, 2Amber SL, 3production RIR'S, and 1 BR). A few weeks ago when they began to lay eggs I started to notice some nasty pecking behavior( mostly towards one immature...

How old were your pullets at point of lay? Just wondering maybe we could list breed or type and age? I have 8 pullets that are 20 and 21 weeks old, 4 that have started to lay Golden Sex Link 17 weeks 6 days Golden Sex Link 18 weeks 3 days Amber White SL 19 weeks 0...

PLEASE HELP OR GIVE ADVICE, VERY SAD TO SEE MY PULLET WASTING AWAY NOT SURE WHAT TO DO, SAW VET 8/22 SHE IS GETTING WORSE. AFRAID TO WORM HER, CONSIDERING HUMANELY ENDING HER LIFE? ANY IDEAS OR POSSIBLE ADVISE ON SOLUTION WOULD BE APPRECIATED. 1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the...

My son trapped my own stupid fat cat, harmless to chickens(the chicks were brooded in a ferret cage and large dog crate to protect them, by 9 weeks they were attacking the cats see Betty White? she always runs stray cats off the property backed by her flock mates Frankie and Francine, but can't...

Tomorrow is officially when the days become shorter than 14 hours here in the North West, so tonight we finished installing the coop lights and hooked them up to a timer... The girls were quite curious and baffled when it was bed time tonight and the lights were shining bright.....any...

Can ACV cause decrease in calcium absorbtion in pullets? I just had a pullet lay her first egg, it was soft and deformed? wondering if ACV could effect calcium levels?

Help!!!!! my Pullet layed her first egg it was soft shelled and open ended now she is acting punky and not right not right??? It all started while I was outside doing chores, she was acting weird and standing alone as if in a trance so I picked her up and put her in the coop, she came out walked...

My chicks are 15 and 16 weeks old and look fine( I think)don't seem to be picking at each other, but seem to be loosing not quite a "pillow case full" but more feathers than usual..... my 16 week old Golden Sex link has lost all but 2 or 3 of her real long tail feathers, no balding mind you but...

Just wanted to share my experience on this forum because i feel a bit stupid but very grateful my chicks are alive and doing fantastic! First off a few weeks ago we started making several sudden changes in the keeping of our 5 week old chicks... 1. they out grew their brooder so we...

New coop finally painted stained and in use(well during the day any way) we use Zeolite on the inside of coop (so far so good), may try DLM when cold weather comes, and sand on top of dirt in the outside run(not sure what else to use?). Love my new sunflower(wild bird suet cage, converted treat...

just finished(yesterday) 10 days durmycin-10 for respiritory symptoms/problems,(gurggling, raspy breathing, lethargic acting)....... gave them h20 with ACV and probiotics this morning(been on ACV since friday).....everyone seems healthy, has healthy poo as of yesterday, except today found two...

Hi folks, looking for any experience with probiotics and ACV. my 6 week old chicks have been on durmycin-10 880mg dose in their h20 for 7 days treating a respitory infection. I caught it early, all 9 chicks are doing well except one is still a bit punky acting but is eating and drinking and...