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    8 Month Old Barred Rock Rooster

    8 month old barred rock rooster free to good home in Bellingham, WA. He's been such a good boy, but he's become very protective of his hens. He would be ideal for a free-range flock as he is very big and an excellent protector. He only attacks when someone is messing with his girls, but this...
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    Thermometers

    Hey, has anyone used a digital probe thermometer (culinary type) for hatching? It seems like you could just put the probe in the incubator and set an alarm to go off if the temperature gets to high. My understanding is that most of them are thermacouple based; would they be accurate enough to...
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    First time Incubating

    Hey, all. We lost some hens to a raccoon and are considering replacing them by hatching some babies. We've never incubated before and we have an old-fashioned styrofoam incubator that we can borrow. Here's my question: I know humidity is important, and we live in Western Washington, and the...
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    Cheer me up!

    Missing our rooster tonight. I know you guys love to post pictures of your beautiful boys, and seeing some photos of gorgeous roosters will cheer me up immensely, Rooster pics anyone?
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    Barred Rock and...

    Hey, everyone. We adopted a 2 year old barred rock hen to add to our three pullets, she was getting beat up in her original flock and we thought adding her to a group of younger birds would give her a leg up in the pecking order. That worked out great. But I've been looking at her, and I...
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    Nippy Pullet

    I have a six month old BR pullet who just reached point of lay; for a few weeks before hand, she picked up this nasty habit of biting me. Nobody else in the house has complained about being bitten, and it's not little exploratory pecks, either. I can't sit with the girls without her sneaking...
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    First Egg Questions

    One of our Barred Rock pullets was missing yesterday, and after a brief amount of searching, I found her in the coop, SITTING on her first egg! She gave me heck when I took it from her, and afterward was still sitting until I kicked her out. Then she ate and drank a bunch and sulked under a...
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    Rooster Upset?

    Do roosters crow when they're upset? A couple of our pullets hopped over the chicken gate in the yard, and he couldn't get to them as he's too big and heavy now to get over the four foot gate. He crowed non-stop until I got the girls rounded up! I didn't get a picture of him crowing, but he's...
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    Camper Coop

    Hello, all! The folks on these forums are always so helpful, I thought I would post this here for suggestions/opinions. We have four chicks around eight weeks old that are outside in a coop that will eventually be too small for them once they're grown up. We're looking for inexpensive coop...
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    A Visitor!

    So it seems that the occasional feed spill is bringing around the hen from down the street. She came by today while I was chicken watching and got a photo of our little rooster giving her the stink-eye through the mesh of the run! They tried to peck each other for a good five minutes. Pretty...
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    Mulching the Run?

    We just moved our first ever batch of chicks outside, and they're in an enclosed run until they're big enough that the cats won't mess with them. We're mulching the floor of the run; which is to say that we've covered it over in leaves from last autumn, and the plan is to rake the leaves out...
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    It's a little cockerel, isn't it?

    S/he's around five weeks old. Tried to get some shots of his tree-trunk legs but you know how quick these little guys can be.
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    Urban Turkeys?

    I started trying to convince my sister that we should raise our own Thanksgiving turkeys one of these years. From what I've read, it's not so different from raising chickens... the turkeys are just bigger. So here are some questions that I want to be clear on before I continue to talk her over...
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    Chicken Math?

    We have four chicks. Three barred rocks and an "ameraucana" that I'm pretty sure is an EE (who cares as long as she's sweet, am I right?) Well, at four weeks, one of the rocks is DEFINITELY looking a bit rooish, so I'm contemplating getting a chick to replace him now, while the babies are...
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    Chick Field Trip!

    Just took our chicks out for a field trip while we upgraded their brooder! It was the first warm enough day so far this spring. They had a grand time, and hunted bugs like crazy things, but there seemed to be a lot of sneezing. Is this normal? Do my chickens have allergies?
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    We've Been Had.

    My friend and I are keeping chickens together. Chicks are about two weeks old so not ready to be outside full time yet. Anyway, my friend purchased a used coop from someone for three hundred dollars, and I just got a look at it today. The coop is a screened in pen, with a removable roof. The...
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    Brooding Chicks.

    We have some Barred Rock chicks and they're about two weeks old now. I'm AMAZED at how fast they're growing, they seem bigger day by day. Long story short, they're about to outgrow their cardboard box brooder and we are going to have a hard time finding a cat-proof area of the house that we...
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