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    Do pointy saddle feathers generally mean it's a rooster?

    That's what I figured, he doesn't have Spurs though, do they develop later? He still hasn't crowed, and his gait/posture is more horizontal, like a hen, when free ranging, he forages like a hen, does not scan for threats, like a rooster If it wasn't for the pointy saddle feathers, I'd think he...
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    Do pointy saddle feathers generally mean it's a rooster?

    Rooster, or Hen? This is one of my Easter Eggers I purchased in March, it hasn't crowed yet, but is mounting the other EE hens and being generally a mean jerk As you can see, both hackle and saddle feathers are pointy, the tail feathers got pulled out by my alpha Buff Orp hen
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    Pip's battle with botulism

    To be honest, I'm not 100% sure it is botulism, but based on my data it's a possibility Data point 1; moldy food Data point 2: disease progression started with wobbliness Data point 3: progression advanced to partial leg paralysis Data point 4; wing droop just barely started before I caught...
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    Pip's battle with botulism

    ...clenching up again... I pick her up, she springs back to life and climbs up to perch on my shoulder again, this time haughtily looking down on *ALL* the other chickens, as if to say "I'm the Alpha now! Bow before me puny poultry peasants, or I'll have my human pick you up, I know you hate...
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    Pip's battle with botulism

    ...the corner, I have disposed of the contaminated food in the stack of old tires that construct the majority of my backyard rimfire range, there is *no* way the hens can discover the contaminated feed while free ranging, the feeder has been cleaned and sterilized No other hens show signs of...
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    Pip's battle with botulism

    ...night, but still very wobbly and unstable, she sat most of the time Tonight, I check on her, her box, empty, I fear the worst.... .... Until she *walks* out from behind the shower curtain, chirping happily to see me! I pick her up, she climbs up my arm and perches happily on my right...
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    Chicken Math strikes again

    I'm really falling for the Wyandotte breed now, amazingly docile and friendly.... I'm nursing one of my five chicks back to health, she seems to have picked up a case of botulism , I've caught it in the early stages though, right now she is a bit wobbly and has a slight partial paralysis of her...
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    Chicken Math strikes again

    Latest updates; A couple weeks ago, my sister got a batch of six mail order chicks, Wyandottes and Easter Eggers, her first batch of 3 day old chicks, normally she gets ones a couple weeks old, she put them in her unheated barn, and lost two to chill, I stepped in and added them to my heated...
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    Chicken Math strikes again

    Went back to the agway today to get a chain for my chain saw, they looked over the saw, said there was nothing wrong with the existing chain, and I should keep running it until it dulls, and then get a new chain and have this one sharpened... Gotta love honest retailers. While I was walking...
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    My roosters are starting to exhibit antisocial behavior

    I hate to say it but Tribble has worn out his welcome, I will be solving this issue tonight I released him from "jail" this morning, and within minutes he was back to his antisocial behavior and tormenting the pullets, frustrated, I chased him into the barn, cornered him, grabbed him (and...
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    Chicken Math strikes again

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    My roosters are starting to exhibit antisocial behavior

    Today is an experiment of sorts... Tribble is in "jail" today, in a dog crate inside the chicken barn, mainly to see how the flock, and specifically, Raven do without him, it's looking good so far, Raven has always been the more rooster-ey of the two, he will find food for the girls, keep...
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    My roosters are starting to exhibit antisocial behavior

    I spoke too soon, tribble is back to his mean old self, double teaming the buff orp, I may just have to bite the bullet and send him to Freezer Camp
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    Chicken Math strikes again

    I just went to the Agway for another bag of grower crumbles for my EE pullets, really I did... But there, ready for the purchase, was a vertical brooder with a layer of Golden Laced and Silver Laced Wyandottes, how could I resist, I lost my sole remaining PPR a few days ago (not sure how, she...
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    My roosters are starting to exhibit antisocial behavior

    Just make sure the FunShell is only used in a manual action shotgun, a single shot, double barrel, bolt or pump action, they will not cycle the action of a semiauto, I'd most strongly recommend a robust single shot like the H&R, always check the bore for obstructions after the shot, make sure...
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    My roosters are starting to exhibit antisocial behavior

    I've noticed a major personally change in tribble over the last two days, he's been much nicer to his hens, no aggressive mating, no "underage" mating attempts, and no feather pulling or picking on them, I wouldn't go so far as to call his new behavior "gentlemanly" but he seems to be on better...
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    My roosters are starting to exhibit antisocial behavior

    I realize they're doing what comes naturally to them, and normally it doesn't bother me, but mating attempts with a pullet half they're size and only 8 weeks old? Isn't that a little young? Yes I know, judging chicken behavior by human standards and all....
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    My roosters are starting to exhibit antisocial behavior

    ...lifestyle"... This is less annoying than other behaviors above, more amusing than anything... And the most recent behaviors which have really ****** me off... Starting to feather pluck my new batch of 8 week old EE pullets, just to be mean and exert dominance (both do,this) And tonight, I...
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    Had a close call tonight (2 Red Tailed Hawks)

    ...just over the height of the barn roof, utterly fearless, I could nearly count their tail feathers I quickly herded in the three straggler pullets*** who, a few minutes earlier had decided to try free ranging, that ended quickly... After I got them in, and the Hawks were still circling...
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    Easter Egger club!

    ...things look to be going smoothly I moved them into the barn late in the afternoon, and it was the first time they've tasted true, real, uncaged *FREEDOM!*, the first time they got to truly spread their wings, and they were loving every second, room, space, stuff to perch on, hay bedding to...
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