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    How to choose a roo

    As usual @Mrs. K gives good advice! My problem with getting an adult from another flock has to do with biosecurity, and introducing Marek's disease or Mycoplasma, either would be a disaster for your new flock. Raising chicks next spring would be good, for sure. And if you want one of these...
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    Overwhelmed with feeds

    We also feed a 20% all flock feed, with separate oyster shell and grit. Our birds can free range sometimes, and during winter get very little worth eating out there. Pay attention to the mill date on each bag of feed you buy! Here we plan to feed within two months of the mill date if at all...
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    Cockerel suddenly aggressive after I was gone for a week

    Maybe you already have a candidate, one of those chicks in your flock right now? Mary
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    Cockerel suddenly aggressive after I was gone for a week

    We love having roosters in our flock, and have learned that they come 'good, bad, and ugly' and only the good ones get to stay here! There are many polite roosters out there, you can raise some straight run chicks in spring, and hopefully have a good one turn up. Mary
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    Cockerel suddenly aggressive after I was gone for a week

    Bless him, he's growing into who he wants to be. Sorry, this isn't going to turn out well, if you or another human (children around?) are injured. He'd be dinner, for our family or someone else, if he lived here. Do you have a cage or separate area where he can reside until he's gone? Get out...
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    Advice on chicken breed compatibility.

    I like having birds of different breeds and colors, more interesting, easier to tell them apart, and egg color variety. Also, nobody molts at the same time, so someone is usually in lay, definitely better. You will figure out who you like, and which breeds you wouldn't ever order again! And I...
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    Advice on chicken breed compatibility.

    Welcome! I've had hens of all these breeds (different colors in some) except the Legbars, and none stand out as notoriously difficult. Our Wyandottes have been fine with no issues. Salmon Favorelles, not on your list, tend to be very mild mannered, and having them with red sex-links, also not...
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    What type of feed do you feed your chickens/ducks

    I feed Purina Flock Raiser, which only comes in crumbles here. Pellets would be nice, but then I'd be changing to crumble with younger birds, and changing back to pellets later, and chickens do hate changes. Nothing else of the same quality is fresher or less expensive here either, so it's...
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    Is this enough ventilation?

    Here we get fewer tornados and more snow! Adding insulation to the roof will help in summer, as long as it's not inhabited by unwanted critters. And as long as your birds can't get to it either. We have good shade in the south and west sides of our coop, and insulation in the roof still helps...
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    Is this enough ventilation?

    One more thing, sorry. Electrical issues, important for fire safety, and insisted on by our insurance company: all wiring in conduit or other chew proof cable, outlets exterior grade, and line to coop buried up to code. Essential! Rodent damage is real, and chickens may bite exposed wires...
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    Is this enough ventilation?

    Don't cut into your framing! It looks barely adequate already. Agree with openings as recommended by @KyCoop, at least. And remove the windows, use hardware cloth there instead. Maybe cover the lower sections in winter, at least on the windward side. Those ready made louvered house vents can...
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    Looking for Suggestions

    So true about bears, which is why the recommendation is to bait the fence with bacon strips or something, so the bear will do a 'taste test' and get really zapped, definitely not a pleasant experience. Also a really hot fence charger, and preferably having the electric tape backed up by a...
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    Guide BYC Trophies Points - Get A Trophy Easy Peasy!

    Glad I checks here, I've also wondered what happened to the 'trophy points' awards. Hope it gets fixed someday... Mary
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Im did too, and several times the loose birds were my d'Uccles! The episode at the store parking lot, with my Chantie rooster, was a time I didn't bring that net. Stupid on my part, for sure. Mary
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    How to manage a rude rooster?

    I was talking about trainability, and agree that someone happy to work around a difficult rooster can certainly do that. (Same with difficult individuals of other species.) It's also totally reasonable to decide what behaviors a person will decide to deal with. And children's safety is most...
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    How to manage a rude rooster?

    Blaming the victim, not better. And fear is a reasonable response, often life saving, not something to blame. Horses, dogs, and humans all have more 'brains' than any chicken! Mary
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    Horses!

    Very sweet! Good find! I think splash, look it up. And an individual spotted horse can carry genes for several patterns. Mary
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    Treating Tapeworms - Under Construction

    Fenbendazole for five days at the correct dosage kills a very few tapeworm species. Otherwise, praziquantel gets all tapes, but isn't approved for poultry in the USA. Mary
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    How to manage a rude rooster?

    I have two hens who are less polite than most, and neither will have chicks here, ever! One is Speckled Sussex, who took real work on my part to stop her biting, at my jeans for anything she wanted. Serious biting, and I kept her rather than moving her on to someone less experienced, or with...
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    Chicks!!

    Chick bins at TSC are dangerous places, it's so easy to fall for those babies! Happens to me often... Mary
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