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    Chicken making laying noise without laying

    I have a flock of 8, various breeds for about 2 years and I have one chicken, a grey one (breed unknown) who keeps making the laying song without actually laying. She jumps up in her coop, then a few minutes emerges and makes the laying CLUCK CLUCK CLUKC BAGAHHHHHHHCK!! That’s fine they all do...
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    Nesting box too high?

    So I recently have been improving my coop since the coop I have was too low to the ground and the chickens try to sleep on top of it every night and I have to manually put them to bed each night. So I built a 2ft frame to place the whole coop and run on top of and added some roosting bars. Also...
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    Chicken crowing... also what breeds are these?

    As much as I hate bad news I appreciate it from you all. At least there are eager people on Craigslist who will take a free rooster.
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    Chicken crowing... also what breeds are these?

    Someone took the crowing one today :( I’m going to wait to see if these others start crowing before I give them up for Craigslist adoption.
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    Chicken crowing... also what breeds are these?

    Been looking around and the crowing big one and the other two light ones kind of look Like sex linked or production red... this dumb shop I bought them from said 99% female and sold them as RIR.
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    Chicken crowing... also what breeds are these?

    Bad news Yes last two are about 7 weeks I’d say. They get jumped by the big white ones
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    Chicken crowing... also what breeds are these?

    Crap! I have three of the bigger white ones. Really hoping they aren’t all roosters. What luck would that be! I’m going to post pics of all three big white ones tomorrow.
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    Chicken crowing... also what breeds are these?

    Hello all! I’m relatively new to raising chickens and I initially bought 6 “Rhode Island reds” from a shady shop here in San Diego. He said they were a little over a week old when I bought them, and now we’ve had them for 12 weeks, so I’m guessing the big ones are around 13-14 weeks now. The...
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