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    do your chickens wander into your house

    We have no problem with them trying to come inside the house. If the door opens, the pygmy goats are fighting to get in. The chickens know better than to compete with the goats. However, early in the morning when the goats are still penned up, the chickens come and sit on the back porch...
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    How to Break a Broody Hen

    I just want to let you know how much I appreciate this forum. I'm having trouble with a broody chicken right now. I'm going to try confining her to a box for a few days and see what happens. Last time we had this problem, we just went out and bought some fertilized eggs. But now we have 4...
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    Is it so terrible that my girls like to sleep in their nestboxes?

    I have two Rhode Island Reds who free roam the backyard. Just in the last few months, they have stopped going into their coop to perch and sleep. They prefer to perch on the gate of the goat pen. I think they feel safer at that height.?. One of them scratched a big enough hole under the...
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    Rooster with a Respiratory Problem

    Thank you guys. I really appreciate all your help. Especially all the links, dlhunicorn. It will take me forever to get through them, but I have a feeling it will be worth it. What I've read so far seems really good. I'm thinking the fact that they keep spilling the water in the coop may be...
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    Rooster with a Respiratory Problem

    hypnofrogstevie - I'm pretty sure the wood chips are pine. I wish it were that easy. That would be a wonderfully easy fix. dlhunicorn - Wet bedding/hay could be it. The kids said the chickens have been knocking over their water every night almost right away when they go in. And the goats...
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    Rooster with a Respiratory Problem

    My daughter holds him like she's cradling a baby. It's not continual, maybe a couple of times a week for a couple of minutes. She's not cutting off his air and he seems pretty relaxed when she's doing it. Sometimes after she lets go he still just lays there in her lap (not comatose-like, just...
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    Rooster with a Respiratory Problem

    I have a rooster, Nugget. He's a Rhode Island Red and a beloved pet. He and his two girls get locked up at night, but during the day roam the backyard (1 1/2 acres) with the pygmy goats. He's not quite 1 1/2 years old. He likes hanging out in the pygmy goat pen looking for spilled oats, etc...
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    Help!

    A few months ago on this forum, I had almost the same problem except that I had a rooster that would come after my 12-year-old daughter and I all the time. Someone explained pecking order to me. Since then, we've established pecking order with my daughter as the alpha male. When the rooster...
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    Sleeping under the stars

    My chickens free range all day. They don't usually care to go in at night either. We find that if we wait until it's getting dark, show them a small bowl of cracked corn, and pour it into the coop, quite often they'll follow. A few nights we've just left them out (because we were gone and...
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    Roo getting aggresive?

    Okay. I read a post somewhere on this forum (sorry I can't seem to find it back now), on why roosters behave the way they do. They said in a nutshell, that roosters have a certain "pecking" order. They fight for the position of alpha rooster, second in line is the beta rooster. The...
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    Floridians?

    I'm in the Kathleen area just north of Lakeland, pretty close to you there Clermont, maybe half an hour or so?
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    Roo getting aggresive?

    My little rooster started acting up yesterday. My kids and I raised him from a chick with two hens. He's only about 4-5 months old. Up until now, he follows us around the yard like a dog, even letting us pet him and carry him around. Just this week, he started crowing. Do you think he's...
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