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    Comment by 'chookcomplex' in item 'Chooktred'

    It's been about a year, no damage. I haven't noticed any food theft. The outside does get dirty but no rust or anything. The inside is completely dry although because of the opening, the food there is the most exposed to ambient moisture so it might make some of the powdered feed to clump up. If...
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    Comment by 'chookcomplex' in item 'Poultry Ball Waterer - Green & White'

    It's been a year, no damage. Works fine
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    I may need some assistance on understanding my Cream Legbar rooster cross with Rumpless Araucana hen

    Males seem noticeably lighter in general compared to female chicks. To continue autosexing, you have to just breed the progeny to test if they pass on barring but its a percentage game at that point.
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    One of the best resources I've found on dealing with roosters

    Here are my anecdotes: 2 Cream Legbar roosters one the son of the other. Raised relatively unbullied by other hens and raised as the sole rooster, I handfed them and petted them often in an attempt to acclimatise them to touch. One somewhat avoided me, the other i raised from chick often ran up...
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    How to sell chicks if they are too young to sex?

    I want to sell some Male Cream Legbar X Female Black Rumpless Araucana chicks but I wonder what's standard practice if any when you sell chicks that aren't sex-linked and can't guarantee if they're male or not. I'll discount the price for the unknown factor but do people generally buy like this...
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    Blue egg laying gene

    I don't get it, if both parents have one blue egg gene, don't you have a 25% chance the offspring will inherit two recessive non blue egg genes? In that case it's not guaranteed. Blue egg genes are dominant but that doesn't meant they will pass on to progeny
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    I may need some assistance on understanding my Cream Legbar rooster cross with Rumpless Araucana hen

    So I have a flock of 1 CL rooster, 5 CL hens (3 of those are progeny of the older 2), one rumpless black Araucana. I've hatched 4 CL chicks, it was very obvious that the male chick was the only one with the white spot on it's head. He i I decided to have a hatch of 10 very similar looking blue...
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    What does this flock noise mean? High note then low note.

    That's the egg song? My egg song I'm familiar with my flock is the bawk bawk bawk bawk BAWKAWWW sequence. This seems different, it's missing a syllable and its a higher note
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    What does this flock noise mean? High note then low note.

    https://voca.ro/1iUg9AHWxEyx They do this chorus for maybe 5 minutes at a time occasionally throughout the morning and afternoon. Does it mean anything? I have 8 chickens and a rooster.
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    How do I manage a rooster just hitting puberty : A Confluence

    He looks so dashing! Okay so he is well behaved around me but I give him space and respect his boundaries in a way that I can afford. That means I try not to walk a path through him and I just stand there until he moves away. Try not to eyeball him or show that I'm watching him unless he's...
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    My Crested Cream Legbar rooster has no concept of romance

    I'm being intentionally facetious saying "romance" but I'm mainly worried about the hen stress levels and if that will affect laying.
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    My Crested Cream Legbar rooster has no concept of romance

    They have foilage and I believe a good amount of space but it's not like it's difficult for him to find his targets.
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    My Crested Cream Legbar rooster has no concept of romance

    oops, I meant to say I have only one rooster for my 6 hens
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    My Crested Cream Legbar rooster has no concept of romance

    So I've had two CCL roosters one the son of the other. Both of them chased females around and try to grip them wherever they can get a hold off. The sounds the hens make are quite unpleasant but I've seen videos of chicken courting behaviour like rooster doing a little tap dance to woo the hens...
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    How do I manage a rooster just hitting puberty : A Confluence

    Next time I may try that just for males but the whole premise of my hand rearing and physical content is constant acclimation with positive reinforcement.
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    How do I manage a rooster just hitting puberty : A Confluence

    Every time I fed him and the others, I kept stroking their back. Talking to them softly. Picking them up every now and then for 5 seconds then setting him back down, he didn't even complain half of the time.
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    How do I manage a rooster just hitting puberty : A Confluence

    It's a tough call. I mean what I would want to do is breed multiple roos and any who are aggressive, I cull leaving the less aggressive ones, that way it would perhaps breed out the aggression. But my flock are now mostly 2nd gen so its gonna be pretty inbreedy from here on out which is not...
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    How do I manage a rooster just hitting puberty : A Confluence

    Yeah, aggression is no good but he's all I got. My suspicion is that my cream legbars are from one of the two variants that are more flighty and free rangy hence the aggressiveness and flightiness. I've tried my best. It is a sad thing to give a growing chick love and affection and when they...
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    How do I manage a rooster just hitting puberty : A Confluence

    Just multiple pecking to draw blood
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    How do I manage a rooster just hitting puberty : A Confluence

    I've gone out again today to see what would happen. He is wary of me, I feel like one wrong move and he will attack but there was no attack from him this time. He knew I brought treats and pecked inquisitively like he usually does , not the malicious pecking but to be honest, the difference is...
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