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    How flammable are chickens?

    Update! So the fire fascinated fowl flapped out a few feathers right in front of me today, I bundled them together and sure enough, just like hair, they burned just as quickly as they extinguished. Like, they start fire pretty easily, but also go out pretty quick too....I had to relight the...
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    How flammable are chickens?

    Can't believe I didn't think of that...to just try a newly fallen feather. But yeah I'll take steps here, just trying to gauge how cautious I need to be. So far there's been no problem, but I DID smell a singe smell wafting up today...didn't see anything on Roo, but yeah definitely made me...
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    How flammable are chickens?

    I've got a rooster that likes to come into my shop and hang out with me and my propane heater...and sure enough, he always ends up right next to it every time. I move it back, he snuggles up again. Google says that feathers are extremely flammable, but is also mentioning the drier, the...
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    Our eggs are hatching, we're not sure what to do here

    Kk, thanks for all your advice here, really appreciate it.
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    Our eggs are hatching, we're not sure what to do here

    Just an aside here...the other hen has suddenly become quite docile...seemingly since right about the time the eggs started hatching. She's just been standing in place inside the pen...I was able to just walk right up to her and pick her up. She looks out of it...phased somehow, just a wild...
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    Our eggs are hatching, we're not sure what to do here

    Thanks for the responses guys, seems like the most natural order of things is to leave the chicks with Mom, put some starter food in with them, separate the rooster just in case...and help the chicks find water, despite mom's objections...once they've started leaving the nest anyway. Once mom...
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    Our eggs are hatching, we're not sure what to do here

    I read something about them being able to tell if any of the chicks are roosters...maybe that's what it'd have to do with? But he's also the most docile damn rooster you ever saw, he's been de-spurred and has never acted even a little aggressive...if that'd make any difference.
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    Our eggs are hatching, we're not sure what to do here

    The scenario: We have two hens and a rooster, all enclosed in the same pen at night (they roam our property freely during the day). Within this pen, there's a little hen house...and its within that little house that the hens would lay their eggs. Well, after forgetting to grab them for a few...
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