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  1. saildog

    keeping multiple roosters

    Can you have a rooster house - keep 4-5 roosters in one house and just let one out on any given day to be with the hens . Will the males fight if they are alone in a pen with NO hens?
  2. saildog

    worm visible when I cracked egg to cook

    What type of worm/ parasite do you find inside the egg? I Cracked egg open for breakfast and there was a 2 inch thin worm within the egg. I deworm with albendazole and piperazine and am now going to do spot on ivomec. My cycle is every 6 month deworming as my flock freeranges. But I would...
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    trying to combine 2 flocks

    I have a flock of 11 hens - I have removed the roo as they all seem afraid of him. I want to put this flock into the coop which has 2 roos and 15 hens so that I can deep clean and leave vacant the one coop for several months. One flock is 3 yrs old - with the 2 roos 9 total of about 15 ...
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    sudden death causes

    hens in the coop on the perches last night, and today one was dead on the ground still a little warm but rigid - it hit 32 degrees last night, no wounds or marks on her, and had no signs of illness, laying eating, weight good. she was a dominique just 2 years old. any ideas? can mareks just...
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    3 rooster/ cockerels for give away - 6 months old - good time to eat, would be good roos for a flo

    McClellanville SC 3 mix breed cockerel/ roos - 6 months old, just started trying to breed hens. ( I have too many males ) photo 2 Speckled sussex buff orpington mix , beautiful roo . one on the left in photo. photo 3 White leghorn cross 3rd photo photo 1 White leghorn...
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    which fertile eggs to use for broody chicken to sit on and raise that is not chicken egg

    I want to use other eggs for broody chicken, cause I want no more chickens. Will the quail or pheasant or duck eventually just fly off? Which would be the best eggs to choose for this purpose ? I am going to get some fertile non chicken eggs to let the broodies be mamas (I am sick of...
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    new chicks and a new coop - how to ease the introduction - ( have 2 other coops and older hens and o

    OK I have 60 chickens now. I have 2 established coops and in each right now there is a hen with her own batch of chicks along with other adults. I just built a 3rd coop and have 12 baby chicks that I mail ordered. I am wondering what will happen once these chicks grow and start to go...
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    For how many days or weeks will hens lay fertilized eggs after breeding?

    How long are eggs fertile after the rooster breeds with hens. One hen went broody a few days after rooster died so I figure that clutch of eggs is likely fertile, but now 2 weeks later another hen is broody on a clutch. What are the chances those eggs are fertile? And for how long after...
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    hood for hens head to protect if and let it heal up ???

    One hen is bullied, they free range and have 2 large barn sized coops she moved herself out of her original coop ( where the rooster lives ) to the other , her head just starts to get healed and it seems the rooster and then once bloody, the other hens peck at her head and get it all...
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    commercial feed molds outside : will home made rations do this also ?

    I feed my hens a lot of vegetable matter, melons , mealworms, etc, and scratch, but also the commercial grower or layer ration When they spill that commercial stuff and it is rainy and wet it molds on the ground wherever it spills forming huge cotton ball like tufts of mold, I bleach it and...
  11. saildog

    2 hens with new chicks, can they stay in same pen?

    I have a hen with one chick, hatched 2 days ago, and a hen with 2 chicks hatched today. I have one set up in a coop by herself, can I put the other hen and her chicks in the same room or will the hens go crazy at each other, i would divide it with what lumber I could but the hens will be...
  12. saildog

    5 month roo problem

    I have adult rooster and 17 hens, kept one roo along with 2 pullets and they are 5 months old, the roo is at purberty and is a really aggressive breeder. He is nice about food and gets all the girls in the coop at night, and is OK with me and fine with other rooster. But he is beating the...
  13. saildog

    chicks 3 weeks old no mama

    the mama hen ignored the chicks and sat on other eggs so i have them separated since ay 3 . they are 3 weeks old . now i want to put them back in the coop - is it too early? i will try to segregate them within a corner of the coop for a few weeks , but at least the others can see them...
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    does having a rooster encourage or increase broodiness in hens?

    I have a mixed flock and the buff orpingtons are my most broody breed by far. I will not get them again. I have 4 and at least one is broody all the time. But does having a rooster seem to encourage broodiness? or are hens just as broody whether you have a rooster or not?
  15. saildog

    elevated coop - open underneath for chickens

    I am building a new barn/ coop and my old coop is elevated about 18 inches and the chickens like being under it when it is hot. My question is : Is it OK to wall off 2 sides of the area under the coop floor, and hardware cloth the other 2 sides or do you think they would then lay eggs under...
  16. saildog

    roosters wearing out hens

    I have 2 roosters and 16 hens. One hen is bald on her saddle and one hen is bald on her head from the aggressiveness of the roosters. 1. Is there something I can put on the bald areas? It is not inflamed just featherless, but, especially for the head bald one it seems to make it a target for...
  17. saildog

    raising baby chicks with hen when can i let them all free with the group

    I have 7 chicks now 11 days old. I have kept them with the hen in the coop cordoned off in a 4ft sq corner section where the other 16 hens and 2 roosters can see and hear them but not get to them. Am I safe to let them all mingle now? Will the chicks be able to get back up the ramp into the...
  18. saildog

    new chicks today and I want to leave them with the mama: help w instructions

    Please let me know what I should alter or not do with this plan. A broody hen is hatching eggs today. 4 have hatched 3 to go. I plan to leave them with her. So I am going to move them all ( they are in a nest box about 18 inches off the ground ) to a fenced in 4 by 4 ft corner of the...
  19. saildog

    oh crap!

    well i discovered a hen had set up a nest in the woods and i figure it is day 10, ......i fretted over what to do - lots of predators here and decided that it was unlikely she would survive another 10 days out there without being food for someone, so i went out an hour before dawn and moved...
  20. saildog

    adding a new flock

    i have 19 chickens 2 roosters and 17 hens all raised from chicks. i want to add a 2nd coop and flock of about 20 hens and 1-2 roosters started form chicks again. is there a distance apart i should make the coops? i would like to get a rooster for the second flock, i have about 2...
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