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    keeping multiple roosters

    Can you have a rooster house - keep 4-5 roosters in one house and just let one out on any given day to be with the hens . Will the males fight if they are alone in a pen with NO hens?
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    worm visible when I cracked egg to cook

    What type of worm/ parasite do you find inside the egg? I Cracked egg open for breakfast and there was a 2 inch thin worm within the egg. I deworm with albendazole and piperazine and am now going to do spot on ivomec. My cycle is every 6 month deworming as my flock freeranges. But I would...
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    trying to combine 2 flocks

    I have a flock of 11 hens - I have removed the roo as they all seem afraid of him. I want to put this flock into the coop which has 2 roos and 15 hens so that I can deep clean and leave vacant the one coop for several months. One flock is 3 yrs old - with the 2 roos 9 total of about 15 ...
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    sudden death causes

    hens in the coop on the perches last night, and today one was dead on the ground still a little warm but rigid - it hit 32 degrees last night, no wounds or marks on her, and had no signs of illness, laying eating, weight good. she was a dominique just 2 years old. any ideas? can mareks just...
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    3 rooster/ cockerels for give away - 6 months old - good time to eat, would be good roos for a flo

    McClellanville SC 3 mix breed cockerel/ roos - 6 months old, just started trying to breed hens. ( I have too many males ) photo 2 Speckled sussex buff orpington mix , beautiful roo . one on the left in photo. photo 3 White leghorn cross 3rd photo photo 1 White leghorn...
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    which fertile eggs to use for broody chicken to sit on and raise that is not chicken egg

    I appreciate the info, and it makes total sense. I will refrain from that plan and stick to chickens only.
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    which fertile eggs to use for broody chicken to sit on and raise that is not chicken egg

    I want to use other eggs for broody chicken, cause I want no more chickens. Will the quail or pheasant or duck eventually just fly off? Which would be the best eggs to choose for this purpose ? I am going to get some fertile non chicken eggs to let the broodies be mamas (I am sick of...
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    new chicks and a new coop - how to ease the introduction - ( have 2 other coops and older hens and o

    OK thanks, I was afraid as they have no MAMA looking out for them the others might beat them up.
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    new chicks and a new coop - how to ease the introduction - ( have 2 other coops and older hens and o

    OK I have 60 chickens now. I have 2 established coops and in each right now there is a hen with her own batch of chicks along with other adults. I just built a 3rd coop and have 12 baby chicks that I mail ordered. I am wondering what will happen once these chicks grow and start to go...
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    For how many days or weeks will hens lay fertilized eggs after breeding?

    How long are eggs fertile after the rooster breeds with hens. One hen went broody a few days after rooster died so I figure that clutch of eggs is likely fertile, but now 2 weeks later another hen is broody on a clutch. What are the chances those eggs are fertile? And for how long after...
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    hood for hens head to protect if and let it heal up ???

    One hen is bullied, they free range and have 2 large barn sized coops she moved herself out of her original coop ( where the rooster lives ) to the other , her head just starts to get healed and it seems the rooster and then once bloody, the other hens peck at her head and get it all...
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    DOGS! UGH!!!

    I'm so sorry, I have stray dogs come through every 6 months or so and kill 1 or a few. It stinks.
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    commercial feed molds outside : will home made rations do this also ?

    I feed my hens a lot of vegetable matter, melons , mealworms, etc, and scratch, but also the commercial grower or layer ration When they spill that commercial stuff and it is rainy and wet it molds on the ground wherever it spills forming huge cotton ball like tufts of mold, I bleach it and...
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    2 hens with new chicks, can they stay in same pen?

    I have a hen with one chick, hatched 2 days ago, and a hen with 2 chicks hatched today. I have one set up in a coop by herself, can I put the other hen and her chicks in the same room or will the hens go crazy at each other, i would divide it with what lumber I could but the hens will be...
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    5 month roo problem

    I have adult rooster and 17 hens, kept one roo along with 2 pullets and they are 5 months old, the roo is at purberty and is a really aggressive breeder. He is nice about food and gets all the girls in the coop at night, and is OK with me and fine with other rooster. But he is beating the...
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