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    Flock management

    Welp, it was the cockerels. Those young ladies were outside of the coop nearly all day long! They are very happy. The hens were glad to have a break from the roo as well. Lots of yelling from the bachelor pad, but all in all things went really well. Cockerels Amos (EE) and Woody (RIR) are...
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    6 day old chick with broody mama

    She's been in that box for nearly two weeks. I put the chicks (Black Sex Links) under her tonight and got the clucking I wanted to hear and she used her beak to tuck them under! I'll go out at sunrise to check to make sure everything is kosher. Rooster and cockerels got themselves a bachelor...
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    Giving incubated chicks to a broody hen

    Bought some Black Sex Links at TSC and put them under mama tonight. I increased the fake egg number under her for the past couple of days to plan to put multiple chicks under her. Got just the response I wanted; soft, excited clucking and she tucked them under with her beak. Set up food and...
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    Giving incubated chicks to a broody hen

    Wonderful info. I have a broody Australorp and I want to break her of it. I thought why not just grab a few chicks to do the job for me. Glad to have a place with such resources for great information!
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    6 day old chick with broody mama

    Interesting. I'm contemplating doing the same. I have an Australorp who has gone broody...sitting on the fake egg. LMAOOOO I'm thinking I'll grab some young chicks from Atwoods or TSC and stick them under her to break the broodiness. I'm just snooping around these threads to find advice. I'm...
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    Flock management

    Agree, there would need to be adjustments to the current set up to work them back in. I guess we remove the cockerels and then play wait-and-see...fingers crossed!
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    Flock management

    Thanks for your input. I appreciate it!
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    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 begin tearing down an old shed to build an A frame for the boys and then we will get them all into the garden. Hopefully that gives the girls the peace they need.
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    Flock management

    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 mile south of town, while keeping five pullets here at the house. All five at home are doing great and most of those at the farm are also great. The cockerels...
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    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 were definitely the first two targets...and the first two to lay.
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    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 cockerels are attracted to the pullets who are closest to laying. It worked that way in each of my two batches; Eddie took off after Cheese (who was first to...
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    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 what to do next. Now they've got it figured out at my place and the EE comes running and knocks the RIR off his "perch." LOL
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    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 31 in total and 29 are pullets. The two boys are just figuring things out and most of the girls aren't having it, so it gets a little noisy and looks like a...
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    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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    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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