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    Too Many Roosters?

    I have a setup with basicly two flocks next to each other. I have my established flock, and I have the new young adolescents next to them , hoping to eventually let them all be together when the young ones are old enough. I have a rooster with the older hens , and I now see I have a rooster...
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    Hens not laying much, thinking I have at least one sick hen.

    We have some juvenile chickens we are raising. I saw one was looking real droopy and sick, its droppings were runny brown, very different than all the others. I separated it from the others and the next day it died. Not sure why, something internal, worms ?? there was a lot of flies on the...
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    How do I bring younger chicks in with older chicks??

    I have four young chicks that have outgrown their small cage. I need to bring them in with 5 adolecent chicks in a larger 10x10 coop. I figure I would bring them in at night while the older chicks are roosted, that's what I have heard works. But what do I do with the young chicks?? Do I take...
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    Why does the flock start to pick on one chicken??

    I have 9 chickens, one rooster , the rest are hens. I have deer netting around the fence 7' high to keep them from flying over the 4' chain link fence. One hen got stuck under the netting, and the others all started pecking her, till she had bare spot. i got her out and she survived. But now I...
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    What do you do with chickens that are done laying eggs?

    Well thanks for the input everyone. I guess what we are talking here is how to manage your flock basiclly. That is for us that have more than just a few as pets. We have 11 hens and one rooster. We are getting about 7 eggs a day now. My wife is so cute, she loves having the chikens now. They are...
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    What do you do with chickens that are done laying eggs?

    I was just wondering as my wife and I have talked about this. We have like 10 chickens that are just now 8 months and laying, pretty soon they will all be laying eggs. My wife is all excited as she already has people lined up to buy the eggs. So what do you all do with them when they get too old...
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    Chickens cant fly out so far

    When I first set my chickens up I didn't realize how easy they could fly over a four foot fence. I lost a Rooster in the process. Taking you all's advice , I found some 7' deer netting and put some bambo sticks up and then attached the netting all around. Thus raising my chain link fence to 7'...
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    Here's my Chicken coop, lost one rooster, dont want to loose any more.

    Ok , well this iswhy I ask on this forum, I dont know much about chickens I guess. I thought 4' high fence was high enough, but I guess I was wrong. I am still amazed that my rooster was able to get up on the fence with one wing clipped. Guess I will have to look at making the fence higher with...
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    Here's my Chicken coop, lost one rooster, dont want to loose any more.

    Ok I need some advice please. . I lost a rooster the other day to our dogs. They are jack Russell terriers, born hunters, so I cant blame them. Our Rooster jumped up on the 4' fence, then came down on the dog side. I guess roosters want to jump up to high places to crow???? The hens have never...
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    Dumb rooster jumped the fence, Dogs got it

    Well Im bumbed. I thought I had a good set up until our rooster decided to jump upon the 4' chainlinck fence. Then jumped down on the dog side, our two Jack Russell Terriers did what they are trained to do attack, needless to say Billy our rooster didnt survive. I have a chicken coop I made...
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    The chickens are swarming with mosquitos

    My wife went out to close the door on the chicken coop and told me she saw our chickens all huddles together in a corner because they were trying to get away from the mosquitoes. She tells me we must do something. Ok so what the heck can I do about mosquitoes in the chicken coop. I'm afraid...
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    We lost our first chicken to a Hawk

    Wow, great info from everyone. I am sure the hawk was a red tail hawk, we have them flying over and calling all the time. I was just surprised that they would take such a risk to get a chicken , since there was no way they could get back out. our chicks are maybe 4 weeks old, they are getting...
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    We lost our first chicken to a Hawk

    I have to say i did not see this coming. My wife told me she let the chickens out in the morning . I have them in a wooden chicken coop at night. then they walk down a ramp into a 10 x 10 dog fence area. I put some feild fence pieces on top to cover it and proctect the chickens while they are in...
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    How to get rid of a fox?

    You could trap ,shoot or kill whatever but that wont solve your problem. if the fox cant reach in so can a racoon or anything else. I would sugguest a an electric wire. I have a fence charger I used to keep my Jack Russell Terriers from digging out under our fence and the fence charger was very...
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    Chicken Coop is done , is it big enough??

    OK well that is what I was thinking it is too small. My problem is with my wife actually. If it were up to her she would just let them free range and then the fox, bobcats and whatever would dwindle them down, to nothing. She thinks the coop is way over done. but I try to tell her it's not big...
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