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    Integrating young chicks with older chickens

    The coop is actually much bigger than it looks in the pictures. Unfortunately, the coop needs to stay in the run because its not super heavy duty (I bought it as one of the commercial ones from tractor supply to use as a temporary deal). My dogs figured out if they bang on the wire hard...
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    Integrating young chicks with older chickens

    Sorry, it took me way too long to get decent pictures. Ignore the dog crate on the dog house. It was just placed there to get it out of the way and isn't being used for anything. I have been switching the two groups between the actual coop and the space outside the coop but not really letting...
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    Integrating young chicks with older chickens

    Hello all, I'm struggling to get my older chickens (3 hens about 9 months old) to accept 3 younger chicks (now about 4 months old). I don't have a lot of space so what I had been doing is putting the chickens in the open run area and leaving the older chickens locked in the coop area (has a...
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    Roosters?

    Sorry another question since I'm not terribly interested in dealing with cockerals especially just starting out in the chicken world. Not to sound callous but when is the best time to butcher in this case? I haven't really researched this since I was focused more on eggs.
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    Roosters?

    Great. Not what I wanted but at least now I know! I was leaning pretty heavy that way anyway. Anyone in need of a rooster lol?
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    Roosters?

    I'm new at the chicken thing. I tried really hard to get good pictures but both these guys do not like their pictures taken. These are tractor supply chicks from a run group. I'm not sure on breed but I think they both may be Roosters. Not particularly aggressive in behavior but the black...
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    Sexing Chicks

    Like most people here, I'm new to chickens. I picked up 4 chickens from big R 5 weeks ago - and 3 from tractor supply the next day. Neither sales clerk could even tell me what breed or even the age and I certainly didn't expect them to know what sex. I honestly don't really care one way or...
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