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    Merging 2 sets of hens into one pen

    Yes, I was hoping the rooster would help them! I think when they're free-ranging, we have enough acreage for them that they don't squabble. Only squabbling inside the tractor when they're trying to lay at the same time. One younger hen tried to roost in the rooster's (rooster plus 4 hens)...
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    Merging 2 sets of hens into one pen

    The Youngers are 8 months old. Definitely a flightier breed--from TSC, so not a pure breed. They came out of a pen just a few paces away from this tractor, and they've been free-ranging together since I got them this past spring. They share a good rooster. A chicken tractor holds 5 chickens...
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    Merging 2 sets of hens into one pen

    I have 2 chicken tractors in my yard; one has a rooster and 4 hens, and the other had 4 hens. The 4 hens dropped down to just 2 hens, so I added 3 younger hens to get them out of a falling-apart pen with no grass access. This tractor holds 5 birds just beautifully. However, these 2 sets of...
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    carcass is terrifying my flock

    Yes, it was skinned and I had carved the meat and heart and liver out. The big rooster in this pen simply lost his mind. He shoved his huge body into a tiny space. I didn't have the heart to leave it in there. Must have been the smell of a predator. It's buried in my garden now, hopefully...
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    carcass is terrifying my flock

    I'd read here that various people's flocks enjoy eating up the remaining meat on a carcass. I just dumped a river otter in my coop, and they freaked out, like one of their own had died. Might they overcome this initial response and find it edible later today? I won't leave it overnight for...
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    Wheezing barred rock w/other issues

    The 2nd photo in the original post shows the white discharge from the vent. She was drinking a good bit today. I haven't caught her today to examine her again--the chicken tractor she lives in makes her hard to catch. I've not noticed her eating, but when she was in the solo pen recuperating...
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    Wheezing barred rock w/other issues

    She is not wheezing any more! But she does seem puny. 1--she sits in the nest and does not lay, perhaps to avoid her 2 roommates? 2--she's thirsty 3--her back end leaks a whitish dribble. What is going on here?
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    Wheezing barred rock w/other issues

    The picture is showing her, on her back, with skin issues (red bump) and white business that seems very odd. Treated with soaking to clean and applying betadine. I didn't investigate her poop--there are 3 girls in the pen. No worms were seen on her. Good ol' internet said maybe gapeworm--so I...
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    Wheezing barred rock w/other issues

    Today I found this hen wheezing on inhale and exhale and being pestered by her 2 roomies. I had sprayed her within the month with BluKote on her exposed belly skin, so she's still slightly purple. However, I have so many questions about what's happened to her. She has white grossness and a pink...
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    super odd egg situation

    Yes, I do! This is just a pullet, still figuring out all the things.
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    super odd egg situation

    Yep! On the griddle, they looked perfectly normal! And she's been laying before and since then just regular eggs. Just a one-off.
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    super odd egg situation

    One of my pullets was behaving weirdly the other day, shoulders all hunched, kinda squatted down in the grass, right after I let them all out to free-range. I watched her for a while, wondering what was going on. Then she squats lower and pops out this: Has anyone ever seen anything like...
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    Goldfish in a water trough for steers?

    Interesting! So I wasn't being crazy! I stuck a cinderblock in there for shade. I'm in NC so it's hot but not as hot as your location.
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    Goldfish in a water trough for steers?

    I read somewhere that goldfish will eat the mosquito larvae and help keep the water trough cleaner for my steers. I've had them a week, and the water is GREEN. Do goldfish help or harm the water trough? Would the steers prefer clear water to green water?
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    Single 5wk chick with no mama

    Meaning, just put her in the adult pen? Or let her forage with the big folks and see what she chooses?
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