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    Water Heaters!!!! Are they really worth it??

    Totally worth is unless you want to lug water several times a day in the winter, you can get them at tractor supply for 40ish or check ebay
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    Adding new birds?

    my recomendation would be to get day old chicks brood them, them when they are feathered out slowly introduce them to your otherss perhaps build or by a small coop or rabbit hutch and get temporary fencing, chicken wire or the like, and let them go like that for a month or so and then let them...
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    Getting pullets to sleep on the roosting bar?

    block the nesting boxes off at night so they cant get in them, just be sure to unblock them in the morning so the other chickens can lay eggs in them
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    When do chickens lay?

    hahahaha oh you will know when a hen is broody they look all squat and pushed down on the nest and they will turn in to KUJO
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    When do chickens lay?

    Mine lay starting before 630 am when I let them out, and i have had them lay at late at 5pm... so let them out they will go back in to the house to lay thier eggs...
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    Breed Recommendations for a newbie

    I would say my 2 breeds that would be great would be Black Jersey Giants or red sex linked, my sex linkeds are super friendly and my bjg is very docile...my buff orpington is a miserable witch so i def will not be getting them again...
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    Bully chicken- seriously evil

    Itt would be better to cull it than to grab it by the feet and hit it
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    Bully chicken- seriously evil

    I would seperate her for a while maybe up to a week, and by seperate I mean like keep her is a dog crate in a garage, barn or basment. Just don't forget about her lol... keep her completely out of sight of the others, and then when she goes back in , In theory she should be a the bottom of the...
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    Hen is perpetually broody

    I break knew from being broody by useing a cage with a screened or metal bottom so there is air flow put.something in for.her to.roost on, it normally breaks mine in 2 days
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    Is this a roo?

    I have Polish hen that crows... she lays eggs also I have watched her
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    Is this a roo?

    That looks like a.red.sex-linked.pullet its.a.girl
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    Is this a roo?

    Is she your only B.O.? in comparison to the other b.o.'s did she feather out slower or at the same rate< people will argue but i have notices that baby roos feather out slower that baby hens.... MY little bantam cochin roo was slower to feather but quick to crow he started crowing at 9 weeks...
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    Moving a setting hen?

    Move her it'll be fine just close her in the space for a day or 2 so she doesn't go back to the other nest
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    11 weeks old bantam mottles cochin crowing

    I have an 11 week old bantam cochin who is crowing. he started at 9 weeks old is this common? I got him at a day old, so i am certain on his age...
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    Saratoga County, NY

    5 Cockers, awesome do you breed them? they are my favourite breed, my girl is half cocker half cavalier, she is my baby girl.
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