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Thanks for all the info... but I'm sure of my rooster being ten years old....he was my neighbors for 9 years.. :) he's so old his toes are wore down to stubs... but he will still take down any predators that come near the girls. ( crows..geese.. chipmunks) . I will check the girls for mites...

HELLO... I have 14 hens that are almost a year old.. last fall I was getting 12 to 14 eggs a day from the girls and I had no rooster.. a few months ago my neighbor gave me his 10 year old brama rooster. Who has seemed to get along great with the hens and has been very protective of them . All...

hello everyone... in the last few days I keep getting these tiny eggs( smaller than a ping pong ball) from my 1 year old rir. Hens who usually lay large or extra large eggs. Also I cracked one open and it had no yolk... any ideas why???

My hens all have bare backs... not sure if they are molting or if its from my rooster.... what do you all think???

my brama rooster is 10 years old..and still runs around like he is only a year old.. anybody know how long they will live ???

hello... i hatched 18 R.I.R eggs last spring.. 6 of the 18 were roosters.. all of them were very friendly and were handled a lot until the got to be 5 months old.. why did the roosters turn mean at 5 months?

Our outside run started out as grass but now the girls have turned it to mud ... what can I put down to stop the mud ... but something the hens will still enjoy pecking at.??

Ok.. I also heard flax seeds can make the eggs have a fishy taste... I give my hens bird seed for a treat...does bird seed have flax in it???

What effects egg flavor???

I currently feed my hens straight laying mash and whatever scrap bread and vegies we have from the house... someone told me that feeding them cracked corn would give the eggs a better flavor... true or false ???

maybe its a triple yolker

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Wow... thanks for all the info. Can't wait to see what my brhama rooster and rir hen chics turns out like

Our chickens love the rain... seems like they can pull weeds and grass up easier and also get a lot of worms

Just wondering how chicken genetics works... when breeding chickens... does a baby chic always get certain traits from each parent?? Such as egg color from the hen or feather color from the rooster? Anybody know ???

My brama rooster is 10 years old...I have 14 hens and he manages to mate with almost all of them ...what are the chances of him being fertile???

Which I could help

I have heard that you can tell the sex of a baby chic by its wing feathers... is this true? If yes ... how??? Please post pics if possible thank you.

I just got 6 baby chics two days ago. And today one of my silkies decided to start setting on a hand full of eggs that we left in the coop for a few days. I would let her set on them and hatch them but I don't think our rooster is fertalizing the eggs... at least I don't see him. Soooo... I was...

Why don't you just take the incubator to her.. then they won't take a chance of being ruined