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    Winter care for free range chickens

    I have five chickens that live in a coop and five chickens that refuse to go in a coop. Three of them have never even been in a coop before and just sleep in a tree in the backyard even when it's raining and snowing. The other two are smarter and sleep on my porch. The five in the coop I just...
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    Brooder temperature

    @lazy gardener huh. I never thought about that. That is nice to know. Thank you for your help!
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    Brooder temperature

    @lazy gardener awesome! Maybe I could turn one of my chicken boxes into a wool hen because I have more boxes than hens.
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    Brooder temperature

    @lazy gardener @azygous Thank you for the links and advice! I didn't even know what a wool hen was until now. I thought it was literally a hen made of wool and wondered why when I googled it before, I could never find it. Haha. I always wondered how that would help but now that I know what it...
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    Brooder temperature

    @redsoxs @CTKen Thank you guys! Both of you were very helpful!
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    Mean rooster

    I think I might have found a home for him but if they end up not wanting him, they're hunters so they won't mind doing it for me.
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    Brooder temperature

    I have seven day old chicks and I never raised chicks at this time of year. Should I slowly start lowering the temperature in the brooder to prepare them for the colder temperature outside? If so, at what age and how much should I lower it at a time?
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    Mean rooster

    I have other chickens to keep her company. I just can't keep them in the same coop as him because he has killed one of my roosters. I'm thinking I should have killed him then when I had it in me to do it but I can't bring myself to do it anymore. It would be safer for all my chickens if he was...
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    Mean rooster

    I have a game rooster so he's pretty mean. I don't even let him out of the coop because when he gets out, he tries to fight with my neighbors chickens. I keep the coop open so the hen can go in and out as she wants but his wings are clipped so he can't get out. But he's so mean that my hen...
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    Hello from Ohio!

    I have my reasons for taking the chickens. They were my neighbors but they didn't want them so they weren't taking care of them so they gave them to me. It made me feel like I had to take them so they would have food and shelter. I only have two game hens. I keep the two roosters that were given...
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    Hello from Ohio!

    I started out with three chicks I hatched from eggs last summer. I'm not too sure what breed of chicken they are because they're mixed breeds but I was told they're game chickens. I had two roosters and a hen. The hen is very sweet and love attention but the roosters were jerks. Over the winter...
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