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    How many hens can I have without a rooster?

    Wow, thanks everyone for the fascinating info and advice!
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    Flock raiser for combined hens and chicks?

    The only thing one feed store I sometimes go to in Susanville, Ca. (rural NE Cal.) is Purina Start and Grow. They recommend it until the chickens start laying, and it is medicated. My personal opinion is that all that medication is overkill. So, after two weeks, I switch mine to non-medicated...
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    How many hens can I have without a rooster?

    Thanks everyone for the good and humorous advice! I know, relativity speaking 15 chickens isn't that many, but I live on a 10th of an acre lot in a densely packed mountain community. I am not even sure if I am allowed to have chickens! But lots of people do, and no one would ever complain...
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    Flock raiser for combined hens and chicks?

    Thanks. I was seeing that the chicks need starter until eight weeks. So, hens that are laying just know instinctively that they need to munch on the oyster shells too?
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    How many hens can I have without a rooster?

    I thought I had heard that after about 10 hens you needed a rooster to establish the pecking order. Is this not true? I am definitely not worried about fertilized eggs, and my hens so far seem quite content without a rooster. I also don't want one due to the noise. This would simplify my...
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    How many hens can I have without a rooster?

    I am just curious if anyone has any experience with a larger flock without a rooster. I have 7 full grown laying hens, one broody that is taking care of 4 chicks(I am pretty sure one is a rooster already, due to comb development), and 4 7 week old chicks. I don't think we can have roosters...
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    Flock raiser for combined hens and chicks?

    I am hearing that flock raiser (from Purina) can be fed to chicks and hens alike as long as laying hens have access to oyster shells? I have 4 babies that are almost a month old now, and I want to let them all hang out with the older flock, with mama of course. I was doing this and all was...
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    How to keep chicks w/mama from eating layer feed?

    Humm. I have the layer feed at hen height, but the little babies jump and fly up to it. How high off the ground can you put feed for full grown hens? These baby chicks jump and flap up pretty well already. If I were to feed them all grower, and supplement with oyster shells, then that is the...
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    How to keep chicks w/mama from eating layer feed?

    I have a mama hen who has 4 babies she is raising. They have integrated into the flock beautifully, not any problems. I did this only three days ago. I have their grower feed in a small feeder on the ground, next to their small waterer, but today I realized they were flapping up to the layer...
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    Is my hen going to keep eating the eggs?

    Thanks! I really do think it was an accident that she discovered the egg in the first place, having sat on it and crushing it. I washed her off so the others won't peck out her feathers while trying to get the yolk off her. She wandered back into the coop, and nest box looking for another I...
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    Is my hen going to keep eating the eggs?

    I have heard horror stories about once a hen tastes their own eggs, that they will never stop eating them. Is this true? I had a situation today that I think I pieced together. Yesterday, one of my hens layed a very thin shelled egg, and slightly deformed. When I picked it up, it got a crack...
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    I need a little adviseon my experiment

    I have very little experience on this subject, but I also had a broody hen who just hatched one egg out of 5. The others either didn't develop, or didn't make it. I have a feeling that unless your chickens get sick, you won't get sick. Especially if you cook the eggs well. That should kill...
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    Heard peeps yesterday, and only one hatched

    OK, I just have to be patient. There is a beak working at one of the eggs as I type!
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    Heard peeps yesterday, and only one hatched

    They never spent more than maybe 30 seconds out from under the hen. I was reading on some other posts about keeping the humidity constant at the end, and we live in a very dry climate, but I can't see them possibly getting dried out in the short amount of time we listened to them. I was mostly...
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    Heard peeps yesterday, and only one hatched

    Thank you. I think I am going to give them another day or two, considering today is only day 21. I would feel terrible if they weren't ready to hatch, and I hatched them and killed them. Would this happen? I am just worried that in taking them out of the nest box a few times to listen, that...
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