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    chicken in flock has a missing comb and being abused by other birds in the flock

    We have a flock of Rhode Island Reds, Barrod rocks and Isa brown bullets that are 21 weeks old. We started having eggs on a regular basis a few weeks ago but we're noticing more aggressive behaviors. Our smallest chicken, Who has been the smallest even when we got her at a few days old, hasn't...
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    "he or a "she"? We have 2 birds in question...

    I appreciate your feedback. I think that is the route we are wanting to take right now. :)
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    "he or a "she"? We have 2 birds in question...

    Thank you for the info. We have incubated eggs and raised the chicks for a few months in my classroom (in previous years) but we ultimately ended up donating them to friends. We wanted to start our own flock this year so we opted to buy day old chicks and will also be hatching more eggs soon for...
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    "he or a "she"? We have 2 birds in question...

    We have a large family (7 kiddos at the moment) and we will be sharing eggs with my parents so we were wanting a lot of eggs. Can I ask if there is a practical purpose for keeping roosters if we aren't wanting to incubate eggs and hatch new chicks? We will plan to add more babies when our hens...
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    "he or a "she"? We have 2 birds in question...

    Thank you for your detailed answer. If we were thinking about keeping the roosters, would we expect to have baby chicks year round with multiple mamas? Would we still have plenty of eggs if we have 18 hens total? Thanks
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    "he or a "she"? We have 2 birds in question...

    We currently have 20 birds that are all 13.5 weeks old. We chose to order 15 total birds (5 Isa Brown, 5 Barred Rock and 5 Rhode Island Reds) all pullets. However, they sent us an extra 5 birds and said they would also all be pullets. But...we think we may have at least one rooster in the hen...
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