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    Dehydrated food for chickens??? Can they eat this?

    Ok, aside from the obvious fact that all store bought chicken feed is dehydrated, can I feed this to my birds? my mom went through a bit of a prepper-phase and dehydrated a BUNCH of food for shelf stability. It was dehydrated and then canned with desiccant. Nothing looks moldy or rotten, but...
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    Chick can’t lift its head. What do I do?

    I have a strange issue with one of my hatchlings. It will not lift its head, almost like it can’t. It’s obviously hungry and thirsty but when I try to feed it, it just drags its head around the floor or my hand. What do I do?
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    Brought the last brood in this morning

    Last brood is seven. That makes 15 between the three mamas. Salt was being too “hostile” and got left out side. She’s still got two eggs she’s sitting on so might as well stay out there. But she was attacking Pepper, Lacey, and their respective chicks. We tried putting her chicks with Pepper and...
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    New clutch hatching, need a smidge of advice

    Hey guys, another of our 100% free range hens has a clutch that started hatching. There’s two babies so far, and three more eggs. I want to let the clutch finish hatching before we bring them in, my wife wants to bring the nest in now before our resident possum has a chance to ‘harvest’ them...
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    Help!!!! Helping chicks hatch

    I looked up vids on ticktock. Have no idea what I’m doing. Got two chicks that had trouble hatching!!! Got them breathing, one completely slipped out of the shell what do I do!?!?! They both had started pecking their way out but stopped. Ones chirping here and there, they are both breathing. One...
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    Got a case of wry neck

    One of my silkie chicks developed a case of wry neck. Found her trying to give up jut baking under the heat lamp this morning. I took her out of the cage and I got her eating and drinking and her condition is improved some as she now moving around and holding her head up a bit better, but not...
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    New Silkie Brood. Please critique my new set up.

    Picked up 5 Silkies and a Frizzle, all Buffs, from J&M Farms in Springhill, FL. Great people and highly recommended. To try an avoid what happened last time I have them in a completely different 'brooder' set up that I used for Turkeys a bit back. These chicks are a little older already, so...
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    The wife bought Silkie Bantams...how do I keep these things alive?

    My wife brought home ten bantams, eight of which were silkies, the other two were cinnamon queen bantams...didn't know that there was such a thing...How do I keep bantams alive? Only experience I have with a bantam chick was one that I bought from Rural King and it died within 2 days of coming...
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    Leghorn mating ratio...Holy crap!?!?!?

    I'm on crackle hatchery's website preplanning an order of leghorn chicks. I want to buy half my leghorn flock in May/June, and the other half during winter time to ensure egg production year round as well as for breeding and selling...I'm looking at the mating ratio they state, though...12 hens...
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    I think it’s officially roo or boo time!

    These babies were born on Christmas/ Christmas Eve. In order of appearance we have; Crawl, Vader, Tipsy, Rein, Nicolette, and The Infamous Eve. Be they Roos, or be they boos?
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    Umm… I’m thinking Eve is a rooster

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    Salt is not a good mama…😡

    So we have two chickens that our birds laid hatched and raised. They are called Salt and Peppa. Salt hatched her first brood in a random place in the yard far away from the coop and flock. We didn’t even know she was sitting. She just disappeared for a while. Then one night, after she had made...
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    Update on Eve

    Just wanted to let everyone know Eve is doing great. Full recovery and feathers coming in nicely.
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    Chick rejected by mother. Help please!

    OK...I am flat broke. Not asking for anything but advice, just prefacing the conversation with the fact that I have no money for a vet or to go get other stuff. I have what I have and I need to know how to MacGyver what I have into a useful solution. Got home from an appointment this morning and...
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    Building new super coop

    All lumber so far has been sourced from pallets of one kind or another. Got the aft and starboard walls all framed up. Getting ready to frame up the nesting boxes.
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    Roo not being nice to new chicken

    So at the moment my chickens have mostly decided to roost on top of the run. I am building a new coop anyways, so I’m kind of dealing with it until that new coop is done. I ended up adopting two leghorn hens and I put them in the run and shut the rest of the birds out. Gave them two weeks like...
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    Getting ready to move and completely renovate my coop.

    So lessons were learned in my first attempt at coop and run building. I put it way too close to the house for one. You know, bugs and smells. Two, I need more space. Three, I need to do something about the water issue. I’m spending way too much time constantly cleaning their waterers cause the...
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    What’s wrong with my turkey chick?

    Took this last night. There’s another small one forming on her beak.
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    My dogs are demons.

    Our single chick from the first clutch was doing great. Her name was Joy. Then our husky killed her. Our second clutch gave us 3 chicks. Stormy, Peekaboo, and the third has yet to be named. Our Malamute ate Peekaboo. I’d have rehomed them both by now if it weren’t for my wife’s intercession. So...
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    Dust bath???

    Like the title says, totally clueless. Just read across the term when researching safe fly extermination in the run. I thought dust baths were a chinchilla thing… how do I apply this logic to chickens.
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