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    16 week cockerel behavior questions

    Thank you so much for your very detailed responses. I am hopeful that my Roo will come into his own. He has a good personality with the pullets I got him with and he is skittish with me but friendly its just those 5 girls. I don't want to write off the breed totally, but I do think I am going...
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    16 week cockerel behavior questions

    They may not be black copper marans, they could be midnight majesty marans. I bought a mystery pack of chicks as my first chicks from Hoovers in February 2024. Idk if that makes a difference, but they are marans.
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    16 week cockerel behavior questions

    Thank you for that input, I do appreciate it. They have a massive yard, around 800sqft, a 100sqft coop, lots of enrichment, fresh treats and greens daily, 4 feed buckets with 4 ports each, a waterer with 12 nipples, and I only have 16 chickens. They have free choice of oyster shell, lots of dust...
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    16 week cockerel behavior questions

    My post may have been confusing. I will edit it. I only have the one Cockerel/Roo.
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    16 week cockerel behavior questions

    Oh, it is hilarious, and it is just my Hey Dudes. Thank you for your input and understanding. I have tried pinless peepers, separation, and pinning them down to lower their standing, but they are still horrible and have earned a spot in freezer camp. I was hoping he would eventually help...
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    16 week cockerel behavior questions

    He's 16 weeks old now, and I have noticed he's starting to get sassy with my Cow Print Hey Dudes. However, when one of the Marans comes over, he squawks and runs away. I will never own marans again after these five girls; they are so mean.
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    16 week cockerel behavior questions

    (Unpopular opinions ahead, my chickens are not pets, they have a job, but I give them as many chances as I can and provide them with a loving home with lots of treats and love) I have a very novice question I wasn’t planning on keeping my cockerel and may still decide to move him to freezer...
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    20 week old Pullet - Not Standing or Walking but Alert

    Thank you!!! We have 14 birds, 3 feeders with 4 holes each, and their yard is almost 500sqft. I need to buy feed so I might switch anyway. Thank you again for your help
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    20 week old Pullet - Not Standing or Walking but Alert

    Hi again, I have another lady presenting with similar symptoms as the first. The first gal, Yellowlegs, is getting better slowly able to start standing. Today I noticed another gal who seemed off balance I watched her and she did stumble and splayed her legs out in front of her. I immediately...
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    20 week old Pullet - Not Standing or Walking but Alert

    Thank you. I have added B Complex to my grocery list for today. How old is too old for the feed? With 14 girls, they go through a 50-lb bag every 7 to 10 days.
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    20 week old Pullet - Not Standing or Walking but Alert

    Yes, she is getting the Riboflavin, I made sure the mineral supplement I have been giving her contained that. Not sure why only she was low or if we need to change food.
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    20 week old Pullet - Not Standing or Walking but Alert

    Yellowlegs is a 20-week-old Easter Egger from Hoovers/TSC; she was perfectly fine on the 16th, I came out the morning of June 17th, and she would not put weight on her right leg. There was a dead mouse in the yard, that was the only "new" addition to the yard I assumed she hurt herself in the...
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    Hullo! New Chicken Intro

    HA! Another member recently reacted to this and I re read it. "Graduating to cattle in the next few years" my boyfriend came home at the end of February and said.... SOoooooo I am bringing home four pregnant cows HA
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    Help me identify these? Please?

    Oooh, okay. I got it. I cannot spell. That was my mistake! The product page on the TS website had Ameraucanas as one of the breeds you might get. That breed and these are the remaining that may be in the box as well: Cuckoo Marans, French Black Copper Marans, Midnight Majesty Marans, Prairie...
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    Help me identify these? Please?

    Do some types of marans have feathery feet and others don’t? I have two blacks that don’t have feathered feet but look almost identical to the ones that do. I didn’t know that about Americaunas! I thought the EE were bred from them not that they are the same thing! Thank you! They didn’t...
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