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    12 week chicks and feed

    Thank you.
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    12 week chicks and feed

    I have 12 week old chickens and I have laying hens I was wondering if I combined them if I can also combine their feed I'm sure the chickens will just eat whatever feed they go to in The Henhouse so I was wondering if at this point I could combine the feed if it would be harmful to the chickens...
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    Is it the tail feathers that make you think it is a roo or the comb? I'm trying to learn.
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    This one was the smallest one when we got it. Now it is right up there in size with the others.
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    Rooster?

    Not sure but my guess is rooster. Sorry.
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    Thoughts on gender for this one. This chicken is picking on one of my sweetest chickens in particular and seems to want to be the top chicken in the pecking order. It can be fiesty. I separated it for about a week but once I put it back with the others the picking started right back up and...
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    soup pot chicken

    We have harvested meat birds before but we have never done layers so I am tinkering with the idea if it is worth it. I found someone who can do it for about $3 a bird which is what I was thinking since he can do it much faster than me and he supplies all his own bags etc. to place the meat in...
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    soup pot chicken

    I am going to be harvesting my first set of chickens. They are all layers and some are labeled as dual purpose. Since I have never done this before, is it worth the work or cost to have them processed to make soup from them. I have heard that they are terrible meat birds but have read that...
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    how many eggs under a broody

    I am trying to find fertilized eggs to make my broody chicken happy and to teach my kids how chickens grow up with a mommy chicken. Plus I think it will be way cute to watch. Anyways, how many eggs do you think I could put under her. She is an EE that has been broody for about a week or so.
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    refrigerated eggs for hatching

    I have a broody chicken and was wondering if I put some fertilized eggs from the frig under her, will it be possible to still get baby chicks since the eggs had been refrigerated. Also is there a way to see for sure if the eggs have been fertilized for sure before I put them under her. My...
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    Who to cull first?

    Any thoughts?
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    No Eggs?

    My Easter Eggers were very late layers and I mean the one didn't start laying until 24-26 weeks. When they are ready they will start to check out your nesting boxes and sometimes their first egg just gets plopped in the coop somewhere or in the run since they don't really know what is happening...
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    Who to cull first?

    I got my first set of 8 chickens 2 years ago and since then have gotten a flock of 5 every year equaling a total of 3 sets. In the first set I had gotten excellent layers, very good layers and good layers. Our original thought process was to cull the good layers and a few very good layers this...
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    Easter Egger with white legs

    I just got my 2 baby chick easter eggers. One has the greenish/gray legs and the other has white legs. The other eggers that I have had always had the green/gray legs. Can they have white legs?
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    when to rotate flock

    I have 2 different flocks of chickens. The first flock will be 2 years old this May and my second flock will be 1 this month. In many of the books I have read, they said that after a chickens first few years they begin to cost more to keep than what you get in egg laying. By no means do we...
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