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    What's the temperature where you are???

    70's today here in Chauvin, LA. Warm for January. Hope summer isn't here already. Global warming sucks sometimes.
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    How Young is Too Young to Join the Flock

    Just an update. The Brahma peeps turned 4 weeks old today and they have definitely outgrown their current brood box. The new 50" x 28" portable pen will be finished tomorrow and I will put the little guys in their new home which should be big enough for them for the very few weeks that they will...
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    How Young is Too Young to Join the Flock

    So, I have 6 Brown Leghorn adult hens, 2 adult Brown Leghorn roosters, (one to be dispatched for Sunday Dinner) and a tubby fluffy Blue Cochin hen. I also have a dozen Buff Brahma chicks almost 3 weeks old, half pullets half cockerels. Located Chauvin, LA which is near the coast, on Bayou Petit...
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    Fake Eggs in Nesting Boxes-- Good Idea, Nah, or Meh?

    This flock started from scratch, no wise old hen to show the young pullets what to do. So I will use the counterfeit eggs. I have a half dozen white wooden ones arriving in a couple of days.
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    Fake Eggs in Nesting Boxes-- Good Idea, Nah, or Meh?

    Makes sense to me, that a hen would be more likely to lay where laying is apparently already occurring. But a neighbor says nope, the hen will avoid laying in that box because another hen is using it. I have seen plenty of hens doubling up on the same nesting box so kind of had to call BS on...
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    Buff Brahma two days old. Sex by coloration?

    Apparently the ones with the creamy white breast and shoulders are the boys. The ones with mostly gray in those areas are the girls. I found a couple articles saying they are not autosexing but many more that say that they are...
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    Buff Brahma two days old. Sex by coloration?

    Six pullets, six cockerels. Six of one coloration pattern, six of another. Coincidence? Is the white shoulder indicative of male, or female, or just a random thing? Buff Brahma, hatched Monday, arrived today in coastal Louisiana from Meyer's in Ohio, all live and hearty.
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    Are You a Practical Chicken Keeper... or a Total Chicken Spoiler? 🧁

    1. How do you greet your chickens in the morning? A) With a quick “Good morning,” as I check their feed and water. B) I sing them a morning song—complete with choreography. C) Depends on the day—sometimes a wave, sometimes a heartfelt speech. HEEEEEEEERE, chick-chick-chick-chicKENNN!!!!! I let...
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    Is this a cockerel?

    Still looks a bit hennish but the comb growth makes me think I could be wrong.
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    Here's another hen vs roo!

    That bird will be crowing its ass off in 8 weeks, betcha a donut. Comb is not super big but has a lot of color and is still big for a juvenile hen. Neck hackles, saddle, leg thickness, all point to probable rooster. Too bad he is a mutt. It is much easier to sex a purebred chicken by appearance...
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    Help does my chick need to be culled

    I would give the little fella a chance to live. You may have to feed him liquid nourishment only, via eyedropper, for the first couple of days, before he is ready to try crumbles and water. Isolate him from the other peeps, so they don't bully him in his weak state. Make sure he is nice and...
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    What Knife do younuse to slaughter the birds?

    Meh. I just use my Buck 110. I keep it sharp. If I got my pants on, I got my knife with me. I use it for everything from eating a steak to carving a pirogue paddle to splitting a deer pelvis to well whatever. For many tasks, it's not the bow so much as the Indian. In other words, the operator...
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    Tips to Improve a Chicken Coop (especially for ease of cleaning)

    I am painting the floor of mine, then laying down linoleum. Mine is big enough to get inside of and work, 8x8, 8' ceiling, gable roof, standard human door with chicken door planned, outside access to nest boxes. The linoleum will make cleaning easier and help preserve the floor. Pine shavings...
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    Mom hen stopped caring for her chick

    At 4 weeks I wouldn't be too worried. It will get hungry and thirsty and figure stuff out on its own. A peck or two is just part of socializing. Just try to provide places of refuge that the chick can run to, where a mean hen can't continuously peck it to death. At one or two weeks I would be...
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    Rats are taking over!

    Another idea... if you live where you can't shoot varmints with a firearm, maybe you can use a pellet gun? Might be worth looking into.
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