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KS_Chicken_Wrangler replied to the thread Flock management.Thanks for your input. I appreciate it! -
KS_Chicken_Wrangler replied to the thread Flock management.Very sound advice. Thank you. I highly suspect you are correct about those teenage nymphos running around at the farm! Saturday I will...
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95% sure it is the cockerels. Chickens don't wait for coops to be fixed, and integration takes more space not less. So if you take...
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Separate them and do look no touch with a barrier so they can see each other when integrating. I will say that I had a hen from last...
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You would have to watch them You would still have to quarantine and reintegrate as a few months is a long time for them to be separated...
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Hey gang! A while back we made the choice to move the majority of our new batch of pullets (and the two cockerels) to my dad's farm a...
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KS_Chicken_Wrangler replied to the thread Young rooster chasing hens.Really good question. I don't recall, if I'm being honest. All my current pullets are going on 5 months old at present, but the two ABEs...
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KS_Chicken_Wrangler replied to the thread Young rooster chasing hens.Looks like Stu is ready at 14 weeks! LOL Kind of like people, I suppose...each in their own time. I'm also starting to wonder if the...
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Maybe I am wrong - but do you really have very young birds? I see you are new to the site?? Cockerels and pullets are immature birds...
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KS_Chicken_Wrangler replied to the thread Young rooster chasing hens.It is kind of annoying because the first move, before the chasing, has been the cockerels just grabbing neck feathers and not knowing...
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KS_Chicken_Wrangler replied to the thread Young rooster chasing hens.Oh man. I'm in the same boat. I kind of freaked out with my first batch...until I figured out what was going on. Now my second batch is...
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It's because cockerels (he won't be a rooster till his first birthday) reach sexual maturity a few weeks before the pullets (the girls... -
KS_Chicken_Wrangler replied to the thread Looking for a Rooster!!.Wish you lived near me. I have two Easter Egger roos and a RIR that I'd be willing to part with.
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KS_Chicken_Wrangler replied to the thread Young rooster – no crow?.I've got a RIR that's going on 5 months, biggest roo I've got (even bigger than my 18 month old Americana), not a peep from him.
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KS_Chicken_Wrangler replied to the thread Easter Eggers from Ideal?.TSC typically uses Hoover's. I have three "Americanas" from there from my first batch. None of them look alike. Had four, lost one to...