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  1. PoppasGrill

    Anyone found music chickens like?

    Ill call Nutrena and ask if they will pay for a comprehensive study on this.🤑 Problem is, I’m not consistent enough to do this research. Next weekend I’ll have my music on when out in the coops/yard, but it’ll be based on my mood at the time and not observing the Ladies reaction. At least until...
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    Anyone found music chickens like?

    Our Turks can get really worked up, to the point of circling us while certain songs are on and being visually agitated. On orchestra music they will stand and dance all puffed up and wing tips dragging the dirt. Music shuts off when I try to video it, but will try to get my wife to record it...
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    Anyone found music chickens like?

    Just out of curiosity, I know that when I take my speaker out to work on the coops, I get a reaction from our Turks ( they like folk music, freak out on rock and grunge, and go nuts over Hugo Montenegro orchestra). The Ladies don’t seem to care one way or the other.
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    Which rooster is dominant?

    We were in a similar situation with our incubator clutch , hatched in January. 5 Roos out of 15 hatched eggs. Around mid May the Roos started getting aggressive towards the pullets, and the older ladies, except one that followed us around and we were able to pick him up and carry. He was the...
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    My rooster did a little dance for my hen!

    I’ve noticed that sometimes , when our Roos dance, the hen will run away, but found out she wasn’t in his harem. It’s a cute courting ritual. We’ve had a few Roosters shuffle dance for other Roos. Weird, but whatever plucks your chicken.
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    Detatched comb

    Here’s a picture of the Roo.
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    Detatched comb

    One of our younger Roos picked a fight, and got his feathered butt kicked soundly. The older Roo got ahold of his comb and ripped it half off at the scalp. Problem is it now hangs down and covers one eye, leaving him with a blind side to be attacked from, and also he is shaking his head around...
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    Fermented feed vs crumbles/pellets

    Over the past few years of having chickens we have switched feeds several times. Usually it involved egg production and general health of our hens. A couple of times it was availability of the higher protein feed and twice it was convenient location of the feed store. It always came down to what...
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    Thoughts on cockerel management?

    In our case, she is attached to every feather on every birb. I had someone who was willing to take them, but she wasn’t able to let them go. Been wearing her down though, and the girls have been working on her also to thin out the testosterone in the coop.
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    Thoughts on cockerel management?

    We have bachelor coops for our extra Roos, my SO doesn’t want to cull and , well, that’s a topic for another thread.. We got upset when the boys started singling out a hen and then 5 surrounding her and holding her down. Most of the flock free ranges daily, then 1 day a week the boys are left...
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    Best place/way to buy chicks

    Are you buying specialty birds or just laying hens for production? We’ve gotten a few special breeds from RK ( white faced Spanish ) and some cross production breeds ( Red Star) but usually get straight production breeds ( Leghorns, RIR, Brahma, Americauna). We’ve had a few batches we purchased...
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    Best place/way to buy chicks

    We get quite a few from RK. Our lady does a good job at getting pullets for us, 85%<>, I think of the last 40 we got 2 cockerel, a couple more before that. We incubated and hatched 15 of our own and got 5 cockerels out of the clutch. We’ve never gotten directly from a hatchery.
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    Snakes in the hen house…

    Yea, that’s the biggest one. The other was about 4 feet long.
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    Snakes in the hen house…

    With all the rain we’ve been getting lately, have killed 2 water moccasins in our coop. One killed a hen in nesting box. Worried about SO sticking her hand in nesting box to get eggs. These were both large snakes and had to come up the side of coop to get in, as we have smaller wire lower to...
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    Moving Grown Hens to New Coop

    We’ve moved our Ladies to new coops, on the property. We free range daily, but kept them locked in for a 7-10 days just as a precaution. A few of them went to the old coop site the first time we let them out, but we herded them towards where the coop Roo was waiting outside the new coop. He...
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    Dirty beddjng

    I would do a deep clean as soon as you can. If there are maggots there already then that area has probably been soaked for a while. As Rosemarythyme stated, try to stay away from chemicals as much as possible if you are keeping the chicks in the brooder.
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    Do all coops struggle with heat in the summer?

    We have several large coops, 2 enclosed ( Half of our Barn, and an addition lean to enclosed) And 3 open air coops. One is converted from a line of dog kennels. We are in North Florida, so the heat and humidity can be exhausting. We have baby pools set up in shady areas for the girls to cool...
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    Guineas- What the hell!!

    We’ve got 2 Guineas that were raised with 14 pullets. For some reason the Guineas have started rushing into the middle of their clutch mates , and the other hens, and chasing them aggressively. Tried separating them in their own coop, but as soon as we let them out to free range they go back...
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    Poll: How often do you check on your chickens in the heat?

    My wife is out in the coops several times a day, cleaning out water bowls and adding fresh, collecting eggs and generally making sure they are well taken care of. We free range our main flock 4-5 days a week
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    6 day old chick with internally rotated leg

    We were able to use a rubber band, not tight, from one leg to the other , to gently and slowly pull the outward leg in. It took time ( a few weeks) and a close watch on the chick, but she is running around with the big girls now. On another note, it worked on one, but not the other 2. Different...
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