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    Quail and the COLD.

    Thanks much!
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    Quail and the COLD.

    How about same question in southeast PA? I don't have any inside space for them, but with the troubles that appear to be coming on, I'm thinking through my protein options. Quail and rabbits seem top of the list. Is it too cold here in the winter for an outdoor house or aviary?
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    Previously lowest on the pecking order is utterly ACCOSTING newly introduced chicks

    So last night I went out around 6pm, which is when I usually see the babies and Featherbottom trying to get some food, and put down some food for the babies, and left Featherbottom at the feeder. Shooed away anybody who came to harass them. At 7:40 (well before they'd usually be settled down...
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    Previously lowest on the pecking order is utterly ACCOSTING newly introduced chicks

    That's what I was hoping to hear, and I love the squirt gun idea! Thanks!
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    Previously lowest on the pecking order is utterly ACCOSTING newly introduced chicks

    Yea, that was my other question, if her behavior was out of the ordinary. Certainly killing the chicks I gave her when she was broody seemed to indicate something, but having only done that twice before, I don't know if that's something that just happens occasionally, or if she's mental as they...
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    Previously lowest on the pecking order is utterly ACCOSTING newly introduced chicks

    Problem is she doesn't just not let them in, but chases them out. If she's not roosting by the time they get there she absolutely brutalizes them till they run out. Primarily just want to make sure she's not going to kill them or get them killed. As long as this doesn't sound out of the ordinary...
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    Previously lowest on the pecking order is utterly ACCOSTING newly introduced chicks

    That's what I've seen in the past, she's just a lot more brutal than I recall the others being, and refusing to go to roost or let them in at ANY point, is different. Tonight I went out early and found her trying to chase the babies from the feeder (looks like none of them really get the access...
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    Previously lowest on the pecking order is utterly ACCOSTING newly introduced chicks

    Need some input! I've got six new six week old chicks (now 7 weeks) that I introduced to my flock of 8 older chickens (between 2-3 Yrs old) last week. Done this several times in the past, and these behaved similarly, stayed to themselves, got harassed away from the feeder when the others want to...
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    Pullet wanted to stay with new chicks...

    Put her out last night and she seems quite content. The babies seem OK as well. Thanks again!
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    Pullet wanted to stay with new chicks...

    Thank you. She's running IN the brooder though, not when she was out with the others. Today she even managed to squeak through the hole where the heat lamp come sunder the chicken wire I have on top. It seemed clear to be a desire to get away (or to her cousins?). Tonight is the third night...
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    Pullet wanted to stay with new chicks...

    So, I got six new chicks the last day of February after the fox was kind enough to leave me two of my twelve in the fall... I've kept them indoors in the stock tank and they have been doing great. A week ago before a family party, my nephew calls and asks, if he gets some chickens for his kids...
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    How do I tell which chickens are still laying???

    OK, so if I didn't see a significant drop last winter (or any other winter when I had 'young' birds), it's not surprising now that I have birds that lived to 2.5 years old that they would drop off, but it's likely they pick back up in the spring?
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    How do I tell which chickens are still laying???

    My hens are all about 2.5 years old, I made the mistake of thinking they lay for 2.5 years from the time they START laying, but have found that they stop around when they are 2.5 years old, so my egg income for my twelve hens has gone from about ten a day over the summer to two to four eggs per...
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    2017 BYC Calendar - Your Pictures Needed!

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    I just don't get it!??!

    Thanks to you too RidgeRunner! That makes a lot of sense! One question then, is it at all unusual to get 12 in one shot like this? It seems a lot to me, even with this new information, but maybe not??
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