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    Second Opinion (to mine, lol) Needed

    Yep, googling chicken health is about as alarming as googling your own health symptoms; you can get anything from "It's just gas" to "It's cancer and you have 3 minutes to live." Not alarming at all, right? So I noticed about 5 weeks ago that one of my silver-laced wyandottes had a...
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    Separated an Injured Hen from Flock, Lonely, About to Get Chicks

    Sorry for the delayed response, for some reason I didn't get an email letting me know about your post. We had too many males at the time she was injured and her being injured lit a fire under me to cut the number of roosters; we now have 55 hens and 6 roosters and everyone is much happier...
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    Separated an Injured Hen from Flock, Lonely, About to Get Chicks

    Great suggestion! Normally I don't have empty tractors so she and I are fortunate that now there is an empty one she can use. That would be a great, safe way to reintroduce her to the flock. If I give her 2 sisters (they may not literally be sisters but there are 4 other gold-laced...
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    Separated an Injured Hen from Flock, Lonely, About to Get Chicks

    Thank you for the suggestions. She has been separated from her flock since Aug 1st, when she was injured. If I put one of her flockmates in with her now, will it be like introducing a new chicken? ::smack my forehead:: D'oh! I have indeed broken a toe but never splinted it so it never...
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    Separated an Injured Hen from Flock, Lonely, About to Get Chicks

    I have a good-sized flock of layers with a few cockerels for protection since they are pastured. The flock was all hatched on the same day so they're all the same age, and the males' adolescence has been tough on the girls. Their techniques with the ladies could use some help, I'm hoping they...
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    Harvesting hens for meat

    As someone who has raised Freedom Rangers (a slower-growing bird than a Cornish cross at 9 to 11 weeks to harvesting weight) for meat, I will say that our cockerels definitely started trying to crow (think of a young boy whose voice is cracking) earlier than 10 weeks. They started at about 6...
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    Show Off Your Wyandotte's

    Pretty ladies! I'll have to get pics of my 2 Wyandottes. I haven't had them long so they are still in quarantine. It's tough to get a pic of them in good light since they're in an old building on the property and are very skittish but I'll try. :-)
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    Best leg bands?

    Good, that's what I had hoped. Thanks for the link!
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    Best leg bands?

    BantyChooks, do the zip ties you use have a serrated edge on them? The ones we buy at HF (Harbor Freight) and use around here for "construction"-type uses (like attaching chicken wire to a cattle panel to make an impromptu wall for a chicken run, or to attach shade cloths to the chicken...
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    Had to despatch my first chicken today

    I'm sorry you had to do that! It is hard to do.
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    Best leg bands?

    That sounds do-able. I've been using the snap-on plastic bands and like them but they only come in 4 colors so I've had to use 2 bands in different orders on one leg to ID my ladies. Now the flock has grown so I'm looking for a more extensive method of marking them so I can keep track of who...
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    New rangers comin this week

    So cute!! I would definitely section off a part of the tractor for them. We used bales of shavings as "walls", stacked 2 bales high, and only gave them about 1/2 of the tractor. We had 50 of them in that space and it was plenty of room for chicks. As they got older we moved the "walls" back...
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    ALABAMA!!

    Hi Domineckers33! You've taught me something new, I didn't realize there was a Fayetteville near Sylacauga. Good to know!
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    Don't know what breed or gender you have? Click here!

    That's good to know, ECSandCCFS. Thank you for sharing that experience.
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    Don't know what breed or gender you have? Click here!

    These are gold-laced wyandottes, which is supposed to be a large breed on the size of Orpingtons. These are very small, with one being Tiny. One female is smaller than the other 2 wyandottes (there are 2 females and 1 male) but all 3 of them are smaller than our Freedom Rangers are at 11...
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