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    When is the right age to potentially sell baby roosters?

    Yes her condition has improved a lot since she has been at our house. These are our only chickens so she has a relaxed life.
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    When is the right age to potentially sell baby roosters?

    I think she has four daughters who will stay with her and three roosters who will go. I think she will be happy still. She is still feeding her chicks at the mo, but I think she is just very maternal. She had had two lots of chicks back to back when I got her, with the chicks I got being the...
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    When is the right age to potentially sell baby roosters?

    Hello, We have a mama hen and chicks and it seems three of the chicks are roosters. I am planning to post them online to see if anyone is keen to take them, but I'm not sure how old they would need to be to leave their Mum and move to a new flock. Currently they are around 5/6 weeks old and...
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    Ideas on gender?

    Awesome thank you. The purple one you circled is number 4. Good to know I'm on the right track, trying not to get too attached until the boys are gone as we are in town and can't keep them but I'm wanting to name the girls so I'm pleased that I'm on the right track and that we should have four...
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    Ideas on gender?

    Hello, I have some bantam chicks who are roughly 4/5 weeks old. I have been studying them and feeling fairly confident about my theories about their sex, until I noticed one of the ones I thought was a hen seems to have extra toes at the back which I guess might be a spur??? I've numbered...
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    Chickens sunbathing all day :)

    I spent so much time putting a fence in the garden to keep the hen and her chicks in... Pulled out plants that weren't safe, got it all ready... Since I started letting them out of the coop in the weekend they have literally not gone two metres from the coop, and most of the time they just go...
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    So happy with how chickens are going :)

    Thank you :) They are a scruffy looking bunch because the dad is a frizzle but they are pretty cute.
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    So happy with how chickens are going :)

    Hopefully they are contented there and don't try to explore next door!
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    So happy with how chickens are going :)

    I got chickens last Thursday; a hen and her seven chicks. When I picked them up the girl had lots of chickens in not the best conditions and they were in a cage less than 1m x 1m inside a farm shed. For the last nine days they have been in the coop/shed which is 4mx2m and they seem really...
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    Run advice to contain bantam hen and chicks

    Bummer, looks like my building project will have to continue. Luckily they seem very happy in the coop at the moment so I have time to get it sorted.
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    Getting bantam hen with two week old chicks

    Thanks for the advice, have lined with hardware cloth :)
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    Run advice to contain bantam hen and chicks

    Ok so my garden is super overgrown. On the left is deer fencing to about 6 feet high, on the right is a retaining wall which is about 5 feet high. The deer fencing has the bottom 50cm lined with a finer wire mesh. Behind the tree at the end there is another fence, wooden about maybe 5 feet...
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    Before and after shed tidy up into coop

    Thank you, I'll put a little wee play roost in for them. I chucked a few bits of firewood in there and they seem to enjoy it. You can't see it clearly but the wire is 95% lined with hardware cloth, just one more bit up the top left to do. I did put a small plank under the food and water but...
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    Before and after shed tidy up into coop

    Here is the after and before of my shed/coop clean up. It's about 90% done now with some small areas that need further proofing just incase there are rats around. I have a step on feeder and bigger water container for when they get bigger. It's nothing fancy and done on a budget. We have...
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    Getting bantam hen with two week old chicks

    I haven't seen her, she is getting rehomed as the person who has her is moving away to study. I will have to check them out, now that you mention it they do look a bit iffy. Awesome, I'll let her and the chicks out once she has settled in to explore the garden. My main concern is...
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