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    Question about Outcast Hen...anything to worry about?

    Thanks for the reassurance. Yes, she eats & drinks just fine, sometimes with the flock, sometimes without. And anytime they feed or snack together, no one is usually mean to her so I guess she's just content to march to the beat of her own drum :-)
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    Question about Outcast Hen...anything to worry about?

    My husband & I are fairly new to chicken raising, we have a small flock of an Americauna Roo (about 16 months old) & 6 hens. The hens are mixed breed, & the farmer we bought them off of said they should be laying somewhere between Thanksgiving & Christmas, so they're still fairly young. They...
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    Advice on Introducing New Pullets to Rooster

    My husband & I are very new to chicken raising, & our flock currently consists of only 2 5-month-old Americauna roosters that we've had since they were about 2 months old. (A short time after my husband had built our coop, a "friend of a friend" was desperate to find homes for them. She had...
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    4 A.M Rooster crowing, REALLY???

    Our roosters start about 5 a.m. every morning, & the sun isn't always up then. They will also crow at random times throught the day as well. Our neighbors are luckily not very close & have been pretty cool so far, a lot of them being fellow chicken owners. I do have to say though, while it...
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    ~Virgin Rooster Owner with questions!~

    I am a novice chicken owner, so I couldn't help you much with advice, but he is a cutie!! :-)
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    New to Rooster's Behaving Badly...any Suggestions?

    NC- They have 2 acres to range & they seem to have a good time. They're always kicking around in the leaves, in the compost pile, going into the woods, etc. so I don't think the space is the problem. I have noticed that 2 out of the 3 times that Willie has flogged me I was carrying their feeder...
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    New to Rooster's Behaving Badly...any Suggestions?

    Its nice to hear both sides of the "eat him/train him" argument. We have become quite fond of both of our boys, & I'd hate to part with either really. But also, I don't want to worry about anyone getting hurt if the training doesn't go well. Like I said in my first post, our original goal was to...
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    New to Rooster's Behaving Badly...any Suggestions?

    My husband & I have are very new to raising chickens, just starting out towards the beginning of this year. We had originally modified an older coop that been on our property from a previous owner, but unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we were not able to secure it well enough, &...
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