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    beat up Rooster

    He's most likely a youngster and this is normal and will stay this way till he's quite older and realizes that he's grown.
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    do you have a hard time?

    "the ones that have given me chicks that I liked how they turned out" This makes sense.
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    Heat lamp in Winter???

    In the south, no you don't need a warmer. But up north, I would imagine that it would probably be beneficial. I wouldn't know for sure, but I see lots of ice and snow on TV.
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    do you have a hard time?

    "Well I know that silly. It's the emotional attachement I have to her. Or is it something else?" Silly, I understand that. I just mean if you realize that your 'beloved' doesn't feel the same.. maybe that should make it easier.
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    How to reform a flogging rooster

    It's best to keep children away from roosters because he is just doing his duty. You don't see your sons' actions as threatening but your cock does. Many cocks are tolerant, but most aren't. Keeping them seperate stops these things from happening.
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    do you have a hard time?

    Just realize that your chicken has no real emotional attatchment to you, then just do whatever it was you had to do with her.
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    Should I keep a rooster?

    You need a fence as well.
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    thin egg shells

    Not if they don't look like egg shells. Or taste, for that matter.
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    which is the proper way to decomb a rooster

    Breed standards may require them to be dubbed. Or if they're match birds... which I doubt though because there would be plenty of folks that have dubbed before.
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    Feeding your flock leaves from trees and shrubs

    The Hackberry will grow into a medium to large sized tree and birds frequent the berries quite often, so it shouldn't be harmful to your chickens. Nor would beech leaves.
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    how do you pith a chicken

    (off topic)
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    which is the proper way to decomb a rooster

    USER Lollipop you beat me to it. I apologize.
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    which is the proper way to decomb a rooster

    Very sharp knife, some down feathers, and separation from the flock is how I've seen it done personally. Do a search there was another recent thread.. with a lot of replies.
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    what age (+how) to introduce cockerel to slightly older pullet flock?

    Use the oldest one you have, and do it either now, or after the cock is about 10 months or so.
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    molting

    Chickens normally don't lay while they are in molt. Use oyster shell from the feed store for their grit as it's higher in calcium.
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