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    Retired firefighter now raising chickens

    Hiya, and welcome to BYC! :frow We have five 5-gallon nipple waterers in the coops, (heated to 40F) but outside in the growout pens we have 2-gallon heated nipple ones. Chewy has them and most farm stores. They make 3-gallon ones too. When we had the polar vortex a couple winters ago...
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    Help analyzing break out analysis results!

    Hi, I doubt your humidity variances had too much to do with it. I would try a different breeder's eggs next time, just to see as parent health/genetics can play a part in our hatch rates. I've never heard of hatching in a brooder, but that kind of eliminates the step of moving them, and you...
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    Hen loosing weight, messy feathers, pasty - parasites?

    Hi, I've used that product four times now for SLM (scaly leg mites) on our silkies. They seem to get those about once every two years. There is a measurement for it here on BYC, but I wanted to use an eyedropper, so I found the breakdown for it elsewhere. How I do it is go in at night, take...
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    Egg bound? Feel egg but pooping

    Hi, how is she doing? If she's still having issues, I'd get some Calcium Citrate +D, 300 mg, and try that for a few days.
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    Hard mass on back of chicken

    Here's the other thread I believe is similar. Look for both of @Eggcessive's replies
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    Hard mass on back of chicken

    I recently saw similar and @Eggcessive provided information and links. I'll try to find it, or she may be on and help.
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    Hard mass on back of chicken

    Moving this to the ER forum
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    Hi

    Hiya, Rhonda, and welcome to BYC! :frow You're certainly in the right place for chicken questions! You might even want to answer some. :) Make yourself at home! We're glad you're here!
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    African Violet Thread

    What is this one called? I like this one the best. Are there easier varieties to try for newbies?
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    African Violet Thread

    Oh my goodness! Both my mom and grandma used to have several African violets but I do not recall ever seeing any as beautiful nor so many! I've tried to raise them over the years and they'd wind up dying on me. I have a plethora of other plants that do just fine. I had even bought African...
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    New Mama w baby silver phoenix and maybe a buff roo also got to cheat w her , by the color of 3 chicks !,

    Hiya, Jules, and welcome to BYC! :frow We do love chicken pictures if you don't mind sharing any. We're glad you're here!
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    Possible frostbite

    We use nipple buckets. 5-gallon ones in the coops (don't freeze due to the temp stays around 40F) and smaller versions in the growout pens with fish tank heaters in them.
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    Possible frostbite

    We heat our coops to 40F all winter. They'll go outside when it's 20F or higher and no wind. These are silkies, though, so frostbite is one thing they don't get as easily. Our growout pens have hutches, like glorified dog houses for them, and there's a cozy coop radiant heater in each of...
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    My first incubation thread

    It's okay, as you caught it. As long as it's not that for like a day, a few hours won't hurt. You'll get to know about what times it needs water added and how much.
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    Chickens and Rice do mix

    Chickens thrive better when fed a nutritionally balanced feed. I would at least put Poultry Cell/chicken vitamins in it, or in their water, so they're getting something, as rice doesn't have much of anything they need. They could become vitamin-deficient, and then problems will start...
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    Are these roosters or hens!!

    Hi! They're very pretty by the way! Sorry, I'm so late here. I somehow missed the tag until now. They are a bit young to tell sex, so all we can do is guess. Usually, they have to be 4-5 months old to definitely sex them, but I've had some take nearly twice that long. Males will start...
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    New year new me (new chickens!)

    We border a forest and farm fields so lots of varmints around. Our two dogs, border collie and corgi, plus a couple of cats, keeps the riff raff away. We also use many solar motion lights. We've got a couple of cameras around so I could see if anything is coming to snoop around at night. A...
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