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Great article! Currently I have a speckled sussex raising 13 chicks. Some are from her, some are from an ameraucana who had laid in the same place as her. I have kept the rest of the flock in their fences and let her and the chicks free range since day one. The issue I'm having is that they...

I've currently got 20 hens and 5 pullets that should be laying within two weeks or so. My plan was to have 30 hens and two roosters, but I might get rid of one rooster. That's good to know it doesn't seem to effect them at all. Maybe I'll just roll with it and take pictures of the spots to keep...

Thanks for the quick responses! Mine free range on about an acre, but the roosters are always close to each other... I might just have to have eat or sell the BO's if having a ratio of 1:15 doesn't change anything. They are awesome layers and have great personalities, but I hate seeing them...

I've slowly been expanding my flock and had heard that 1 rooster per 10 hens is a good ratio. In the past couple of weeks I've noticed that the roosters have picked the Buff Orpingtons as their favorites. When one rooster is mounting one of the Orpingtons' the other will run up and peck at the...

So my hens and one rooster are all around 22 weeks and we have 5 laying so far. The only minor issue is that one Golden Sex Link keeps trying to come in the house to lay her eggs! The first few times she was behind the TV, but today my girlfriend gave her a space in the closet and she laid one...

Last week my girlfriend and I processed our first batch of meat birds, 10 Cornish Cross and 1 Leghorn rooster. They were about 9 weeks. We sealed them with a Food Saver and let them rest for 48 hours in the fridge before freezing them. Now I'm waiting for a breast pack to thaw so we can make...