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Thanks for this, neighbor! I know it's a little hard to tell "who started it" because I haven't noticed until after I hear the noise, but I *think* that 1 or 2 of the Wyandottes are the chest-bumping aggressors (they also have more white on the wings and a little redder comb, so I also...

...so if some of our chicks are chest-bumping at 4-5 weeks, is that just normal pecking order behavior, or just normal young cockerel behavior, or an early warning side that the chest-bumpers will need separating soon...?

OK, we'll start looking more closely!

Thanks for this! You reminded me we have a hoop house frame stashed under a tree... that will be a great backup plan if the kids don't play nice! Another question -- if I separate the roos, do they have to be out of site and out of hearing range of the hens? Or just physically separated...

Oops, I misspoke. We are moving them out at 6 weeks; right now they are 4 weeks. I think 3 of the Welsummers are clearly male, and 3 are clearly female (first timer with Welsummers and first time with male chickens of any breed, so take that with a grain of salt). The 7th is sort of on the...

Thanks for this, 21hens, very clear-cut! Follow-up question, now that our chicks are 4 weeks old and we're starting to prepare for their transition... A dozen hens is what we're aiming for, and it will be easy to expand their pen to make that work, and more (we will likely double the pen...

I downsized and now think it is working...?

Yeah, I just meant that the 3 Welsummer roos are the only ones we can identify as roos at this young age. We will be eating the roos. When do the roos start terrorizing the pullets? I was hoping that by then they would be big enough to harvest... but we have never had birds for meat (only...

I wish I could! I will keep trying... our internet is terribly inconsistent except that it's consistently terrible...

Three weeks ago we salvaged a neighbor's coop, which jump started our chicken-raising by at least six months -- we were planning to start next year (since we are still living in a camper...) Thursday our 24 chicks arrived from Ideal Hatchery! (7 each Welsummer, Australorp, Silver-Laced...