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    How many Chickens can my Rooster handle.

    We’re free ranging and all the hens housed in coops that are close together. So 2 roosters would probably fight. I may end up incubating a lot of unfertilized eggs.
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    How many Chickens can my Rooster handle.

    We have 35 hens and about to get 10 more. They are all free range. We are also getting a new rooster to bring in fresh DNA. Can 1 rooster cover 45 hens? We incubate the eggs and try to brood naturally as well.
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    Antique Chicken Feeders.

    This Buttermilk Feeder and Poultry Fountain belonged to my Grandfather.
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    Chickens coming back home.

    We want to give our Nextdoor neighbor some hens. They live a bit away but can hear our roosters. We only have wire fencing and they plan to free range. Is there a risk of the chickens trying to come back home?
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    Chickens coming back home.

    We want to give our Nextdoor neighbor some hens. They live a bit away but can hear our roosters. We only have wire fencing and they plan to free range. Is there a risk of the chickens trying to come back home?
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    Trying to Incubate - Most of my eggs are unfertilized

    His name is Presley because he does this little dance when I come around. I have another gold laced Wyandotte rooster in the other pen making barnyard mix chicks. He’s fertilized all but one of his hen’s eggs that we tried to incubate with his first batch and of those we had a 100% hatch rate...
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    Trying to Incubate - Most of my eggs are unfertilized

    We have 3 pens with Hens and 3 different roosters. We collected eggs to incubate. 2 of our pens have had great luck with all but 1 egg fertilized in each pen. The third pen has a Gold Laced Wyandotte Rooster, 4 Gold Laced Wyandotte Hens, and 2 Cuckoo Orpingtons. From this pen, on 2 separate...
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    Fire Ants - Using Molasses To Drive Out Colonies

    Very interesting. I know it’s supposed to be feed molasses not good grade. Feed molasses are awful. Sometimes science doesn’t support old wife’s tale’s and farmer’s tricks but they still seem to work. If it was a well known proven soliton the price of molasses in the south would...
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    Fire Ants - Using Molasses To Drive Out Colonies

    I’m not sure what it does. I heard about from some West Texas Farmers. I used it on my lawn when I lived in a neighborhood and saw no ants but saw plenty on the neighbors lawn. I may run a test in an area away from the chickens and see what happens. I’ll post the results if there are any.
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    Fire Ants - Using Molasses To Drive Out Colonies

    Hi All, In the past, I have sprayed molasses on my lawn to drive out fire ants. It seemed to work. Has Anyone used this method inside coops and runs? Could this be dangerous to the chickens?
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    Barnyard Mix, Premie Hatching

    Do you have a specific brand you recommend?
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    Barnyard Mix, Premie Hatching

    I guess I got lucky getting 18 chicks from 21 eggs. Beginner's luck.
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    Barnyard Mix, Premie Hatching

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    Barnyard Mix, Premie Hatching

    I haven't so far. I've been looking on Amazon for one to use for the next set.
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    Barnyard Mix, Premie Hatching

    I have a Naturewise 360. The temperature was doing good, humidity is hard to regulate, but it never went below what was recommended.
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