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    Chicken tidbitting at owner

    I have even juvenile pullets do that when kept singly. I think it is a means of getting me to approach even when the signal is not honest in reference something like a patch of food. When I put out little piles of live meal worms where a broody hen and chicks are foraging and a chick comes...
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    I have been able stimulate abandonment of a given roost cite by simulating a predator knocking them off a roost. If the birds bales from the tree in the dark on its own accord, then more likely than not it will find a new roost site the following evening. In some instances the bird will become...
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    Unusual sleeping / napping posture

    This emmersion in close chicken interactions around the clock are yielding additional observations. Firstly, consistent with a student trial a few years back, no cecal poops produced at night. Secondly, Shelly is very prone to “cuddle” with even a modest drop in temperature. She is in very good...
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    Anyone ever "re-tamed" a rooster before?

    Spend more time in close proximity without actually handling him. Don’t do treats or offer feed during these bouts.
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    Chickens in nature

    Keeping chickens out in such a free range setting will more likely than not require dogs to provide an exclusion zone for predators. It would work even better if coupled with a fence to serve as a marked boundary that will serve to slow predators’ approach and ideally keep dogs closer to where...
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    Chickens in nature

    Growing up we used black and tan coonhounds. They were not to trash on chickens.
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    Chickens in nature

    Half my dogs the time of that thread were German short hair pointers. They were my main guardians. You do some dog training.
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    Chickens in nature

    Parts of thread may be of value to you. I have dogs to keep most of bad guys you deal with away from nests. Thread 'Elevated Nest to Make Viewing Easier From Window' https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/elevated-nest-to-make-viewing-easier-from-window.1364258/
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    Chickens in nature

    Do you intend for the hen to incubate clutch and return with chicks to roost?
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    Unusual sleeping / napping posture

    Her name is Shelly. Great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter of Sallie, a hen that was the subject of such a thread. I’m a mad scientist, not a trucker.
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    Unusual sleeping / napping posture

    I respected more responses like yours. I have never seen even chicks in a brooder laying down like that unless breathing there last.
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    Unusual sleeping / napping posture

    The pullet was hen-hatched and hen-reared through six weeks post-hatching. There was limited contact between she and I when out in the yard. Free-range reared to that point. My son complained that hens brood was small and flighty to I took pulley and kept her with me around the clock except when...
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    Unusual sleeping / napping posture

    This 10-week-old pullet spends way too much time with me. Stays in truck all day and roosts on fan in bedroom. Immediately after work we came in and I passed out doing the sheets. Woke up to find this.
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    Hawk in Yard a Lot

    I having a Cooper’s Hawk spending a lot of time around my chickens. It is a female molting from subadult feathering into her first adult pelage. You can barely make her out in image below where she is perched on left corner of the roof. She allows me within 30 feet if I don’t look at her. When...
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    Training a puppy to guard chickens

    The process takes me 18 to 24 months to get a dog to point where it can be with chickens unsupervised. Not all dogs fully reliable in the end although most can be. Early on there is lots of supervision and limited direct access to chickens. I have all life stages of chickens in a variety of...
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    Wing Clipping

    Most chickens will have set the first adult flight feathers in wings by about 7 months.
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    Just think about what you post. You attacked the reason behind doing it without even taking time to learn what was actually being done. Even an abandoned thread it not yours to commandeer. I see no clear indications you understand what I was doing.
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    None of what you add has been along the lines of what I set out to do. You simply high jacked a thread with a bunch of random ramblings.
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    If you could only understand my dissappointment
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    Location where applications carried out was well ventilated.
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