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    adopting an unsocialized lone hen?

    I'm liking the continued positive outlooks! Your reasoning about being hard-wired makes sense. I always tell people that they are really bad at problem solving (e.g. figuring out how to go around something) but they are really good at being chickens. I do need to cull one hen :-O - I figure...
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    adopting an unsocialized lone hen?

    Thanks for the optimistic advice! I figure we'll do the standard separation in wire dog crate, block off part of the run etc for several days. Just don't know if she'll have underdeveloped wiring in the socialization part of her brain, like a refugee from a 1980s era Romanian orphanage. My...
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    adopting an unsocialized lone hen?

    Hello - I've run searches and I didn't see this topic come up - please direct me to a relevant thread if I missed it! I have a friend who hatched out one single surviving chick after losing power to the incubator. This hen is now 4.5 yrs old and has never seen another chicken in her entire...
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    7 1/2 week old Olive Egger - still a girl?

    aw rats. Well, here's hoping for a smooth transition trading out for a pullet!
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    7 1/2 week old Olive Egger - still a girl?

    Would love to have a roo, but can't where I am in the middle of suburbia :(
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    7 1/2 week old Olive Egger - still a girl?

    Thanks for your input everyone! I still keep hoping that Matilda is a pullet since she's good at paying attention to her surroundings and sound the alarm if something happens (cat walks by, etc). Guess I'll hang tight and wait for crowing for now...
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    7 1/2 week old Olive Egger - still a girl?

    I just knew someone was going to ask for a wattle shot! I tried but just couldn't get an up close non-blurry shot LOL. There is just the barest hint of wattles starting to grow, but no more than, say, my light brahma or very feminine BO who are the same age. (uh oh I hope my...
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    7 1/2 week old Olive Egger - still a girl?

    Here is my 7 1/2 week old possible Olive Egger. I was told that mom is a lavender Ameraucana and dad a Maran (I think a BCM?) - or was it the other way around... She is at the top of the pecking order. Hoping she's just an assertive hen since I'd rather not deal with trading her back and...
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    *The City of San Diego, California - Chicken and Gamebird / Fowl Law*

    oh SWEET! I needed an interpreter for the sixty zillion references to section this and article that. When you say 5 chickens may be kept "anywhere", does that really mean ANYWHERE? Like, less than 15 ft from the house? The only space we have for the small coop I'm planning will be about...
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    *The City of San Diego, California - Chicken and Gamebird / Fowl Law*

    Yay! Thanks for the update, as I couldn't attend. I thought the issue of distance from the house was going to be brought up, but as far as I can make out, it looks like the minimum distance is still 50 feet? But I'm glad the proposed stuff went through unanimously According to this, it...
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    Another newbie from San Diego

    I joined a few weeks ago and have learned SO much, thanks to all of you :). Currently in the "coop blueprint" stages, but won't be able to start building until I fix up the yard a bit. And buy/scavenge materials. And figure out if I can pull off building a "living roof".... Is there a...
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    another battle won!!

    woohoo! Hopefully by the time I build my coop it will have passed! Fingers crossed
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