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    Broody Hens with too many eggs

    Thanks for takng time to reply. I dont want them all to hatch because it's too much work.. and I'm tired!!! We have four hens and a rooster in the wild, in a secluded holler by a creek.. and a cabin.. they are completely free range and get some corn occasionally... the one hen there went broody...
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    Broody Hens with too many eggs

    Help! We have 12 hens and one rooster. 10 of the hens are game hens, feisty, one is a Silkie and the other is a regular big red hen.The games were given to us. AND they're sitting on too many eggs. Two of our hens have gone broody. One of the game hens and the Silkie. True to form, the...
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    Roosters comb sliced off

    Our American Game Rooster, think that's what he is, is in a cage - we got him with 11 game hens as part of the 'gift' deal. Yesterday found him out of the cage fighting with our other roo. He had no comb. Found his comb on top of the cage.. It was sliced clean off. I put woundkote on it...
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    Our new Rooster - what am I?

    Pretty certain he's game.. thanks for your responses. Will look up the breeds u suggested. He was not bred to show, but for fighting and he was not good at it.. which is why we got him. Plus he came with 11 hens cos the guy needed the space. Fighting is common round here. HATE it, but that's...
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    Game Hens?

    Thanks chicken peeps.. really appreciate the input as we are really chicken virgins and they just keep turning up. We've had two sets of chicken babies from our silkie and she nurtured them all, but out of 6 only 1 turned out a hen and that wasn't one of her eggs!!! When the Game Crew...
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    Our new Rooster - what am I?

    Here's a collage of our new rooster. I just posted about the game hens and put up pics. He came from the same guy. Anyone got any idea. The guy who gave us the hens and him breeds 'game' roosters and apparently this one was not so great at it. HATE this idea, but glad to rescue him and the hens.
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    Game Hens?

    When we got these hens, our dogs ran out and they flew off high into the trees, on the roof etc. Now we have accommodated them with our regular chickens. We had 6 chickens - one laying silkie mix who is very broody and has raised two sets of babies including a big red that hatched out of a...
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    Game Hens?

    Someone gave us 11 hens - which are apparently game hens. Anyone got any comments on this one and the two pics below? They are laying eggs, not sure which ones, but we have found 3 eggs in one day. They are apparently 7 months old.
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    Killing our roosters

    We are about to cull two of our roosters who were born in May making them 5 months old. We have two. One is now in a cage but the other is loose and running away quite intelligently it seems!!! Is it best to boil them or would they cook up good as a roast? They are silkie mixes and not huge...
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    Any ideas on these two's gender

    We think these are hens, but the white one has started crowing and the other has occasionally. A rooster born with them, from same parents [mixed silkie and something else] has a proper comb.. Sunny 10 chickens, 3 guineas, too many roosters, bullied Sultans.. overwhelmed with lack of...
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    Georgia Chicklets

    Wow how nice of y'all. I love this forum - for a beginner like me it's great. I've always liked Forums and gotten so much info..and shared some too! Saw your rabbits and chicks from Cairo.Sweet...so sweet! See you all around... Chickens are pooping on our porch...not amusin.. but I cover...
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    Georgia Chicklets

    I'm Sunny and I live with my husband Forest on some rented land in the Georgia/TN Mountains. Last year our young neighbor asked me to swap some of my famous venison jerky for two chicks. We ended up with what we thought were part Silkies. The hen is very silkie, the cock not so, but he has...
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    Hen Pecking Little One

    Just wanted to take the time to express my deepest appreciation of all your advice. I now have the chicks in the 'garden room' [where we moved all the containers in winter!].. they are in a square high sided cardboard box, with sawdust shavings I gathered from where we cut wood... plus...
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    Hen Pecking Little One

    Thank you. My husband said she was trying to make it strong!! I knew she was rejecting it.. just instinctive..Anyway. I have removed the little chick and sure enough it has a scar on its back where she has pecked. I haven't got any of the things on the page you directed me to..and my...
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    Hen Pecking Little One

    Hi, I'm totally new to this. My Black Silkie was sitting on 4 eggs. Two hatched out 5 days ago and then after two days the others weren't hatched, soon the advice of a neighbor who has tons of hens and chickens I took the last two eggs out as I thought they might not be OK. [I put two eggs in...
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