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    Rooster Question

    Okay, just figured out why my poor roo is outside the chicken house. When I went to check last night and put him in, Ellie is intimidating him and almost pushes him out. I can contain him in the open area area underneath the chicken house and then he'll go up first and then opening up the...
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    Rooster Question

    Just changed my info -- located in Southern California. My hens are fully grown and this roo was a chick my husband brought home from a motorcycle ride in his tank bag 11 weeks ago - he was probably 6 weeks old. Just crowed for the first time last week - we were hoping for another hen even...
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    Rooster Question

    Yes -- the roof completely opens and for summer I prop it up a bit and it also has a small door with wire on it. There is a ramp that leads down to a small "coop" area also all wire so air comes up through that way as well. House is set up on a platform in a large hardware screen house. This...
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    Rooster Question

    Coop house is inside a screen room and sits up high. Only 2 hens and plenty of room for everyone to sleep. He's been sleeping there all along and usually going up first. Just started roosting on the top of the house the last few nights. I have put him inside and he stays. Thanks.
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    Rooster Question

    Just discovered that my new chicken is a rooster although so far a very quiet rooster - a couple short crowing attempts in the morning and maybe one in the late afternoon. He is quite large and gorgeous - a Black Copper Maran. Skittish, but calms down once he is caught. A couple of nights...
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    Introducing Chick to Best Friend Hens

    I have 2 hens who are best friends -- Thelma and Ellie. Ellie is Thelma's third best friend. I put Ellie inside the coop in her own run so they could get used to each other - waited the 2 weeks suggested. When I finally let them be together, Thelma stormed Ellie very quickly and made sure she...
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    Hello from New Member

    I live in the mountains outside San Diego, California in a place called Deerhorn Valley on 8 acres. I grew up in another valley not far from here. My mother was born and raised in Nebraska on a farm and we always heard about life on the farm and gathering eggs before going to school so having...
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