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    Help my chickens are attacking me!!!

    Ok, so maybe it's not too serious, but my current flock I raised from chicks and hand fed them treats. It was all fun and games until they became adults. Now they assume if I am outdoors with them I have treats. This seems cute and all but sometimes I like to walk around my yard barefoot...
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    injured chicken and pecking order... need help.

    For a laugh here is my spoiled hen in the bathtub.
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    injured chicken and pecking order... need help.

    I had two hens for about a year. I got each at 3 months old. (Two barred rock) I had plans on introducing three more chickens a couple days ago that I had purchased. While I was out getting the new chickens a dog in with the old chickens. One was dead and the other was extremely startled and...
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    Incubator question.

    The ambient temperature in my incubator is 99 degrees. A thermometer inside confirms this. I also have a laser thermometer that reads 99 degrees in EVERY area of the incubator EXCEPT the egg. When the laser is put on the egg it reads 103??? Should I lower the temp of the incubator or are the...
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    Very Frustrated Newbie

    Chickens grow very quickly early in life. I was given chickens in August that I would have sworn were full grown but were only four months old. They just started laying this weekend. Are you sure you weren't lied to about the age? Perhaps they are still young? Hopefully they aren't older and...
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    Somebody is not laying in the nests....

    Maybe you had a late bloomer? My hens are 7 months old and just started laying. Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk
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    7 months old and they finally started laying

    Well my two hens started laying eggs over the weekend. They are both 7 months old and I've been waiting very patiently. I thought the first eggs would be small and soft shelled. However, they were medium/large and the shells were very thick. Does anyone else have experience on late starters? Do...
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    Did my rooster just become dinner?

    I've had my rooster for several months now. He is a white rock and fairly large (9lbs estimation). He used to be really cool. I could practically pet him and he was never aggressive. This past weekend we had a birthday party and I guess 40 kids and adults might have freaked him out. He bit two...
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    Cool water

    Well I heard chickens like cool water much more than warm and sometimes would rather dehydrate than drink warm water. Last night I froze a quart sized Ziploc bag filled with water and put it in the waterer. Anyone else have experience with keeping the water cool or have any tips better than...
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    Is he leghorn??

    Thanks so much. Something told me he was a cross breed or something else entirely. His size for one, and it seems to me all the leghorn pictures I have seen, those birds stand taller (if that makes sense) So, does anyone know the dominance of their genes if I were to breed with a barred rock...
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    Is he leghorn??

    I'm new to chickens, but based on the description I've read he is a little big to be a leghorn. Cross between leghorn and another breed? I tried to get a picture with him up against something of comparable size, but he wasn't being cooperative. To give you an idea, that is a 2X4 inches behind...
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    Help?!?!? Newbie to chickens

    Thanks.. I did panic before reading this and made a the rooster his own place. His place is a little more open and unfortunately more open to predators as well, but so far so good. He came from that environment anyway. He has four foot welded wire surrounding a coop he can freely enter in and...
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    Help?!?!? Newbie to chickens

    Over the past several weeks I have been constructing a coop. The bottom run is 4ftX7ft the roosting area is 4X4. First, how many chickens do you think this will comfortably hold if I plan on letting them free range during the day? Now to my main problem. I was under the assumption that I could...
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