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    is my roo attracting me or aggressive?

    Sounds like the mating dance to me. Is he sticking one wing down and doing the stomp dance around you? That would be the mating dance. When I see the chickens fight each other they ruffle out the neck feathers and get really tall standing. Also, it seems to me that he would be attacking...
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    Keeping My Chickens Cool In The Heat - Pictures

    I see in the foreground of your picture that you have Hostas... my ladies think that Hosta is a lovely salad that I have planted just for them. They must not free-range in this area?
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    Do you always have water available outside coop?

    I keep water everywhere when it is this hot, and I change it every day so that they can have cool water at some point during the day at least once. I have a large pan in the coop, and several smaller pans outside the coop, and a couple more in other areas that they wander to during their forage...
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    does she like the chicks?

    I would bet she's trying to mother them. With supervision, you might try putting her in the playpen with them to see what happens. If she attacks, take her out immediately.
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    Freak of Nature - Or how to fix a broody hen

    My husband and I are a little bit addicted to the "banty box" at our local Orscheln store each spring. It's a lot like a grab bag in that you never know what you're going to end up with. So, last year we ended up with a cute fuzzy little blonde/gold chick with feathered feet. Unfortunately...
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    Post PICS of your GLORIOUS ROOSTERS here!!! All breeds welcome!

    What awesome pictures, everyone! Some very funny writing, too, I enjoyed reading through everyone's posts. Roosters can really make you proud. This is our adopted rooster we aquired about a month ago. He was abandoned, so we brought him home to a lovely stable of beauties. We really don't...
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    What I learned about using a Broody Hen

    I may be a little crazy, but that hen has a pretty gentle look to her eyes that I normally don't see in pictures of hens with her chicks. They normally look so aggressively protective. It must be her regular handling? She's very pretty, by the way, and congrats on the chicks and the...
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    Our new chicken house at a great price!

    Found out some history this weekend on this little building. An old-timer pumper told us that the building used to be an office that was used in the field back in the 1950's. He said he used to gather there with a couple of other men every morning about 5 am to drink coffee together before...
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    From shed to coop- it's finally done! *pictures!*

    Nice job! We're looking at a similar remodel, so it's very helpful to see what others have done.
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    Our First Coop, Almost Done!

    What an excellent building for your chickens! Congratulations on the product of your hard work!
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    Our new chicken house at a great price!

    Free! My husband found this small building and he worked a deal to do some backhoe work in exchange. It may not look like much now, but it will be a great house, I think. It's very sturdy, doesn't leak, is on skids, and is fully sheet-rocked on the inside. We're going to attach it to the...
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    Run out of chick feed - help!

    I've seen other people post that they feed their chicks cooked oatmeal (cooled), yogurt, and scrambled eggs. This is probably treat food, but might work for one day?
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    NEED HELP - Ugly Introduction

    We started to let our chicks out with the larger population when they were at about 3 months. My husband had made a low, long box out of plywood with several holes large enough that the chicks could escape into if they felt the need, but the larger chickens could not get in after them. He also...
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    Pasty butt?

    This happened last year with our little silkie. The only thing my husband could really think to do, was clean up the chick and extract the poop by hand everyday. It was pretty awful to be so tied to a chicky's butt like that for about a month it seemed, but she did survive, and is doing quite...
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    New pullet introduction to the flock, ending in my first culling.

    I'm sorry to hear about your loss. In my experience, if a chicken gets an injury, the other chickens will often keep pecking at that injury (I guess because they see the shiny blood?). If the chicken is not separated quickly and the injury allowed to heal at least to a scab, the damage can...
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