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    Rooster Blues?

    Do you know what age you normally kill a chicken to eat it? Ive heard they taste really bad when they're too old... George is a little less than 4 months. Just started crowing.
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    Pictures of my babies...

    Oh interesting! I've never heard of that! Is it very absorbant?
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    New scenario! Dogs!

    They're talking about reporting because thats a realistic issue to think about when deciding what they would do. No one thinks you actually did that. I personally would make some really loud noise to scare it away... maybe fire a gun (but not AT the bird), just to spook it. Then again, if I had...
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    Pictures of my babies...

    They are so cute!! What material do you have in the bottom of their box?
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    Rooster Blues?

    I recently adopted a rooster from a neighbor who was looking to get rid of his after my precious baby boy (Mr. Happy, the one in my profile pic) died this weekend I decided to put him in the pen at the same time as adding my 4 adolescent hens to the flock, just to get the whole integration...
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    LOudmouth, give it rest already! Sheesh...

    Haha I have an Orpington hen who does that too... and oftentimes she gets all the other chikens squaking! She just sits in the pen and squaks her little heart out for no apparent reason. When we first got her we thought it was when she was laying an egg, but now its apparrent she just enjoys...
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    Predator eating eggs?

    Yeah possoms, ferrets, raccoons, rats... Do you check your nesting box every day? You need to make sure any broken/partially eaten ones get removed as soon as possible so your hens dont eat the remains, or else your chickens will start breaking them and eating them on their own (if that isnt...
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    whats the next step????????

    We had a similar situation and we separated the chicks (brought them inside under a heat lamp) just because the other chickens were getting a bit aggressive and we didnt want the babies to get pecked. Also, i dont know if this happens but I was also worried about her getting squashed by the...
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    All about oyster shell?

    I had a few weak egg shells and so I started buying oyster shells... I had them in a little tray and they seemed to ignore them so I started scattering it with their scratch and it helped. I have also heard that giving them eggshells helps, but I would REALLY make sure there is no egg remnants...
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    What breed to get?

    Hello! Congrats on starting your chicken farm! I have Buff Orpingtons, Black Australorps and a Rhode Island Red and they are all WONDERFUL! The Buff Orpingtons are quite chubby and they have been great layers for me! They also always seem to go broody (want to lay on their eggs and hatch them)...
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    Old Fashoned Hen Incubation HELP!!!

    I have 8 hens and a rooster, and decided to let one of my hens, a Buff Orpington, (sp?) incubate her clutch of eggs after she went broody. She'd been on them for about 2 weeks, but when i went out to the pen yesterday night another hen, a Black Austrolorp, had kicked her out and is now on the...
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