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    Chicks Arrive, Hens Stop Laying

    My (three) year-old-plus hens suddenly stopped laying when I moved my six new chicks (not the hens') into the coop. The chickens (Rhode Island Reds) all free range and the hens intimidate the chicks. The chicks are now seven weeks old. The hens are generally not aggressive with the chicks...
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    Hens have raw shoulders, how to heal?

    While mounting my hens, my rooster clawed the shoulder feathers out of two of my three hens. Rooster is now gone, but some questions remain. First, is this par for the course or might this have been simply an overly aggressive rooster? Second, rooster has been gone four or five weeks but the...
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    What's the value of a Rooster?

    I started out with six chicks of which one turned out to be a rooster (all Rhode Island Reds). The rooster got to riding the hens pretty hard, so that that their shoulders got raw (they also squawked a lot and ran away from him in the morning when he tried to chase them down). Rooster also...
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    When to switch from chick feed to ???

    When I got my new chicks (Rhode Island Reds), I also stopped at Blue Seal and bought a bag of chick feed. Three weeks later, they've been eating like crazy and I'm running low on the chick feed. What's next? Do I buy more chick feed and feed them that for how long? Or do I buy something else and...
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    How Old Are These Rhode island Reds Chicks?

    How old are these Rhode Island Reds? I bought them from a local distributor 12 days ago and he said they were only a couple of days old. But they've gotten feathers, have begun to fly, and have gotten big quickly, and I now suspect they are older. Any ideas? It doesn't matter other than I'm...
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    Exterior Nest Box Access Door: On Top or on Backside?

    On researching my coop design, I noted that some exterior nest boxes had access doors that opened on top (the roof) and others the backside. I had a hard time deciding which design was better, as I could see advantages to each. So I broke down the variables as follows: access, weather, cleaning...
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