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    RIR Roo???

    Oh, I concur! (realized I didn't actually address that in my post!) I think that looks like a he!
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    Ideas on these chicks? A friend got two birds and doesn't know.

    Can't see the picture, sorry!
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    RIR Roo???

    So....RIRs are pretty hard to sex...My great auntie used to say "It will either lay and egg or crow, then you will know, girly". I have RIRs and know many others who have RIRs and they ARE hard to sex! Unfortunately, you can't really go by shiney feathers, or the black feathers, or the size of...
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    Chickens won't go in coop at night (new thing, they used to)

    Thank you so much for everyone's advice! I wound up returning the coop to the old place - and have been patiently working with them to slowly allow them to free-range in the yard (I stay out since its a residential area with some minor predator threat - namely neighbor dogs and stray cats and...
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    Chickens won't go in coop at night (new thing, they used to)

    I feel like I'm new to chickens, which feels really strange, since I used to show them at the fair! Goes to show that "city chickens' are very different from "country chickens"! I just went and peeked at them (gasping because it is still 85 degrees at nearly11:00pm) and they are nestled in...
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    Chickens won't go in coop at night (new thing, they used to)

    Of course I didn't! LOL That seems totally obvious to me now - but..... I took off the additional yard (for the now) and left them in the little coop with the hen house door open (its been 100+ degrees and only cooling to low 80's at night, so I don't want to lock them in the hen house at...
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    Chickens won't go in coop at night (new thing, they used to)

    So... please bear with me its a bit of a tale, I'll try to keep it short! 1) 2 chickens (4 and 5 months old - Rhode Island Reds) Not my first chickens...but my first in a suburban environment. 2) Had them a month, the settled in well and adjusted to going in the hen house at night. 3) Pecked...
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