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    male...female..or other

    Really? Thanks that is good news because another rooster is something I can't have lol
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    male...female..or other

    So I have 2 Rhode Island reds and they are both about 2 months old and I am suspicious the one might be a cockerel (even though all were supposed to be Pullets) if the one is definitely a roo I need to find a home because I have 4 already, the feathers that are supposed to be saddle feathers...
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    Do roosters/cocks like to take dust baths?

    I never saw my roos take a dust bath until today. Omg I was laughing because it was the first time they did it while I was watching and they did it where the girls couldn't watch them
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    Sick or broody? How to tell the difference

    Turns out that my two hens were neither sick nor broody, they both tried to lay two eggs in one day. It apparently was a bit stressful for them which is understandable. Both are back to normal now.
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    Sick or broody? How to tell the difference

    I had one hen just do the sitting and not really doing much of anything. She wasn't herself and had some liquidy stool and someone or someones have been having German Shepherd sized poops lol but after a few days of her odd behavior she is now normal again and now I have another hen doing the...
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    No crow rooster collar death beware

    I have those for my boys we are allowed to have roosters but the neighbors on one side are real a-holes. I tried rehoming the boys but no one wanted them (I didn't want to get rid of them but at the time it was my only option) this morning I went out and found my one roo gasping and he had thick...
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    Chick days @ Tractor Supply

    This is true and sometimes they aren't even labeled correctly. I walked out with what I thought were 4 Australorp pullets.....they were 4 black sex link roosters. imagine my surprise when I realized that my girls were boys and not even Australorps it's funny now but still 4 roosters lol I...
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    How do you keep chickens from flying over the fence ?

    I found that out with my hens, I couldn't figure out how the one was getting out to the front yard. She found a small opening the first time second time she hopped on the generator and onto the fence. Lol they are clever though
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    How do you keep chickens from flying over the fence ?

    I have this problem with my roosters. They haven't flown over the fence yet and if they go in the yard fine but I live in an area where my yard is next to the neighbors and I don't want my boys going into THEIR yard (They will kill my birds) I clipped both wings on each bird and found out that...
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    Rooster problems....overly mating, rough on certain hens.

    Yeah the other three try to test the waters but then they turn around and walk away and shake their feathers. CHAOS pecked my foot (not hard I think he was getting the straw I had on my foot) but I turned around and mimicked a dominant rooster behavior, he took a small step toward me, I walked...
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    Rooster problems....overly mating, rough on certain hens.

    I am planning on keeping them for as long as possible although Chaos may find himself in a stew pot if he doesn't cut his crap out. I had a rooster before and he was great but he was also older. Now I have the equivalent of 4 teenage boys going through puberty he bit my leg yesterday when I...
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    Rooster problems....overly mating, rough on certain hens.

    So glad I found this thread, I have 4 roosters and ugggh it's like being in a frat house lol they are messier than my hens and just downright rude and horny. I keep them separated from my girls and was thinking about letting them free range with the girls when I'm outside with them but after...
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    Rooster problems....overly mating, rough on certain hens.

    So glad I found this thread, I have 4 roosters and ugggh it's like being in a frat house lol they are messier than my hens and just downright rude and horny. I keep them separated from my girls and was thinking about letting them free range with the girls when I'm outside with them but after...
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    ROOKY MISTAKE TO SHARE

    I will try that this time around when I get chicks again. I rigged up a different heat source when I brought home my 4 chicks last time but that heat lamp fiasco still gives me nightmares. It was my rookie mistake
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    ROOKY MISTAKE TO SHARE

    Sorry for your loss and having to learn the lesson the hard way. I learned a scary lesson with a heat lamp. I had the heat lamp on and the chicks were just starting to learn to fly well I was cleaning the bathroom and I hear frantic peeping, and found out they knocked the heat lamp into the pen...
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