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    Rooster behavior

    Roosters get a bad rap and are often culled needlessly, their behavior towards people is often due to the chicken keeper. Roosters are naturally protective of their flock, that's what they do....it's a natural calling. An owner has to establish trust with the rooster. From the time they are...
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    Too young for mom to leave chick?

    I had 2 Spotted Sussex who both hatched chicks and they began to show disinterest in their babies around 4 weeks too. I was pretty shocked! Fortunately, I also had 2 very motherly Barred Rock Cochin hens who quickly adopted these chicks and watched over them until they were 6 weeks old and fully...
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    A surprise Roo?

    White Brahmas are not typically aggressive, I think you will really like this rooster even when he is sexually mature.
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    Roo or Hen?

    I have heard in some instances when there is no rooster in a flock, a dominant hen may start to take on the characteristics of a rooster. She may occasionally crow, become the flock protector, break up fights and become the flock leader. Pretty amazing, huh!
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    A surprise Roo?

    From the way it stands a bit more erect than females and the early pinkness to the comb and wattles, I'd guess you've got a cockerel. But rooster White Brahmas grow to be so big and beautiful!
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    reflection of first time chx kill

    That's a good idea to put the processed chicken in the freezer for several weeks or months before eating it. If I can not put a face or a feather to a bird, then it wouldn't be so hard to eat it.
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    reflection of first time chx kill

    It's not only hard to kill a chicken you have cared for, but for me.......it's also hard to eat it. Because as I sit down at the table, the face and body of that bird appear before me.
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    Please help me! My chicken has a gash on its neck and a few other wounds.It’s not an adult chicken yet. And I can’t take him to the vet what do I do?!

    You can tell this poor thing has really been picked on by other chickens. If you don't keep it separated from the others, they will end up killing it. Looks like its feathers have been plucked too. Sad!
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    Polish chick getting pecked - What should I do?

    She is really cute! I'm glad you worked out a plan to help Chickabiddy. :)
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    Polish chick getting pecked - What should I do?

    Unfortunately, once blood has been drawn from picking, you have no choice but to separate Chickabiddy. Especially when there are several chicks in an enclosed area. A bloody spot is something that attracts other chicks/chickens to pick at which could cause an infection. But once she has grown...
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    For Experienced Broody Hatchers!!! I have a Question or two

    Yeah, I should try putting my broody hen in a brood jail, she’d have to be locked in for a few days to break her brood, though. I actually have a problem with TOO many broody hens sitting on their fertilized eggs. I don’t need more chickens. Ha! My 2 roosters are very fertile. I wonder if...
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    For Experienced Broody Hatchers!!! I have a Question or two

    I learned a lot this season from my broody hens. Four of them went into a brood about the same time. Some chicks hatched out of the egg and then died, some made it 1/2 way out of the egg and died, 1 couldn't puncture the membrane and died, one chick was stepped on by the hen and died (she did...
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    New to the coop!

    I live in the Spokane/Cheney area....not too far from you.
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    FLIES, FLIES & FREAKING FLIES!

    You need to find the source of where they are breeding. Just look around your place, flies must have something rotten and moist, like old food or vegetation to lay eggs. I had a fly problem too and learned they were laying eggs in the bottom of my recycle bin. Some containers had been thrown in...
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    My Frizzle cant Jump to roosts / Frizzle Feather loss

    Ahhhhh, you've got to help poor Frizzles. I had a chicken with sparse flight feathers who couldn't get up on the roast at night, so rather than putting space-occupying logs in the coop, I bought about 5 flat paver bricks and stacked them up so she used them as a step and was able to jump from...
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