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    Buff Brahma 8 weeks.

    Thanks for all of the replies. Yes, he is a beautiful bird and is quite funny and curious. I'm sure he'll end up more than twice as big as our hens. We already have a white leghorn rooster who is pretty sweet and nice to his hens (he helps them with nest boxes and performs and egg song for them...
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    Ray from NW Missouri

    Predators got 4 (coyote got one in the early morning hours after sunrise, neighbor's farm dogs (from a mile away) snatched several before I could stop them one afternoon, a racoon got one through the pen one night, and one we had to put down because it was complete Satan's Spawn (attacked...
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    Buff Brahma 8 weeks.

    Our 8 week old Buff Brahma "mystery chick" from a hatchery. We think it is a roo based on very slow feather development, a reddish comb, aggressive behavior (no attempts at crowing yet), and not much feather "pattern". But we know brahmas are slow to develop (look at the puff still on the...
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    Ray from NW Missouri

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? My wife and I got 11 "barnyard" day old chicks from a friend of hers (mixed breeds and sexes) at the end of April. We ended up with 6 roosters and 5 hens. One hen died. We keep one white leghorn rooster (DWR for dumb white roo - but...
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