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Raising the roost

Rocki

if their chicks you may find having the older birds around to teach them what is safe and warning signs of predators especially benaficial.

Personally I'd remove the sick one and introduce the young ones at the same time. Put the young ones in the coop area at night if your nervous you can use a small cage let them all wake up together. If you have a large run/pen area with plenty of "escape" places for them to hide and roosts to...

Our black silkie refuses to set on the still developing eggs now that there are chicks she keeps getting in with our seabrite and the 3 chicks. Our Maran saw her chance to take over and is now setting on the last 3 we were incubating. Leaving our sultan bantam trying to set on 2 brand new eggs...

My husband has been candling them he says the fertile ones just look dark inside no visible forms as of yet.

We have a very small mixed chicken flock of 3 bantam and 6 full sized mix hens and 1 Americana? rooster that showed up and moved in with our hens, 5 ducks one is male, 2 Tom's and 2 Turkey hens. So far every bantam is broody (golden seabrite) just hatched 3 full size mix chicks yesterday and...

We check the yard for secret nests daily if the have a place we haven't found it yet. They don't all seem to lay everyday to me it seems they must take turns laying or somthing. We've discussed building a run but since we're fairly far from most residential areas finding someone willing to drive...

We have a sizable free range backyard flock, We have 3 RI reds, 1 RI white,1golden seabright, 1 buff silkie rooster, 1 black Silkie Idk thought it was a she but looking more like a he, a very tiny he, 1 buff silkie girl, 1 sultan bantam, 1 black cochin bantam. 2 silver wyndottes, 1 speckled...

I would be excited if my big rooster did end up being an Easter egger then I could get colored egg layers next year but I'm fairly sure he's a sussex

I did notice two of our Rhodey's are more orange and one is more mahogany none of our chicks are show grade there all feed store purchased :) so that explains the color difference