BackYard Chickens

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So I need some insight into good rooster behavior within a flock, especially when there is more then one rooster in the flock. I recently got two roosters, they are brothers and were raised together and are about 1 year old. It would be cool to keep both but I am thinking I am going to have to rehome one and I want to make the right choice here. One boy which seems to be the dominate one, he is the only one that crows seems nicer to the hens, if he goes to mate and the hens protest he...

From my YouTube channel, just a short discussion of why we no longer feed medicated feed to our chicks, though we did begin our chicken keeping career about 12 years ago by giving them the medicated feed with amprolium, believing it would prevent coccidiosis.

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I know some people only raise one breed of chickens and some people have a rainbow flock. Just wondering what everyone has. We have Barred rocks Buff rocks White leghorns Blue andalusions Ameracaunas Brahmas