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    Broody hen..day 20..too hot??

    Great thanks! I wonder if I could move the tractor safely with her in it to a more shaded part of the yard?
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    Broody hen..day 20..too hot??

    I have a silver laced wyandotte who has been sitting on her eggs..up to day 20 now. She hopped off the nest for a minute so I made a beeline for the coop to check on the little guys. I can tell one is starting to pip. My concern is that it is HOTTTT here in Georgia and seems way hotter in the...
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    Moving chicks in with big girls

    we have a flock of 7 free rangers who stay in a chixken tractor at night. 6 hens one rooster. We have a smaller coop that currently has 9, 7 week old chicks and 3 13 week old pullets. Can I move the 3 pullets over to the Tractor with the big girls/boy yet and if so can I keep them from eating...
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    2 roosters?

    Make that one black australorp rooster!
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    2 roosters?

    I am the type of person who worries and stresses about every little thing even though I won’t truly get my answer for months. So right now we have a flock of 7. 6 standard hens and 1 black australorp. We will soon be adding a cream legbar, blue ameracuna and Welummer hen bringing his total...
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    TSC bantam breed?

    Y’all are crushing all my hopes and dreams here :gig
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    TSC bantam breed?

    Oops. Sorry. They didn’t say. Get what you get and you don’t pitch a fit basically.
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    TSC bantam breed?

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    TSC bantam breed?

    Any idea is these are gold Dutch bantams? Fingers crossed they are! 2 weeks old from TSC.
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    Rooster has started attacking

    We got him by accident. We didn’t know much about chickens when we got him. My husband found someone retiring from the chicken business so he went pick a couple out of probably 30 or more. The man just grabbed him and said he was an amercauna hen... to me, he honestly looked like a hen at first...
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    Rooster has started attacking

    Thanks everyone. I really hate to see such a beautiful rooster go. But I know my kids absolutely come first. Keeping he and the hens in the run won’t be helpful to his aggressiveness? I would love to keep them free range if he wouldn’t attack and the hawk wasn’t an issue. But I’d rather not go...
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    Rooster has started attacking

    hey BYC again! I need some advice on my rooster. Within the past month he has attacked and chased my kids, ages 7,5, and 2 multiple times. I know part of it is that they show him they are fearful and immeadiately start running and screaming. He had never messed with my husband or I. We would...
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    HELP! found out my hen is broody

    We are fairly new to the chicken world. We got a speckled sussex named Clarabelle back in October. We thought she could've just been old and not laying anymore as all of our other hens have come back into laying. Anyway, today we found that she has laid an egg and has been sitting on it. Ive...
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    Laying from roost?

    First time chicken owner. We got 6 chicks back in August. We then decided to add 2 mature hens to go ahead and start getting eggs. (Come to find out one of those ‘hens’ turned out to be a giant beautiful Rhodebar rooster. Not sure how we missed that) anyway we got 2 eggs from the mature hen...
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