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    Our Rooster just died unexpectedly :(

    Healthy as could be,He was taking the hens around the yard. He was 3 1/2. We think he had a heart attack. One of the hens was squawking and as he ran towards the fence he started flipping back and forth and then just died. Craziest thing!!! He was an awesome rooster! Young George
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    Young Roosters... :(

    We took on a young Rooster this year. I have a tenured rooster George which is 3 years old. He is so good with the Hens and us. I cannot stand the young Rooster!! It's like having a teenager. Before we got rid of the other Roosters and kept him he was on the bottom of the pecking order and...
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    4 out of 4 Cornish/cross surviving!

    Last year we had a 50% survival rate. This year we had a broody hen with two she hatched out take on a buff orpington, 1 turkey and 4 cornish cross babies on as her own. They free range during the day and all have survived! By this time last year we had already lost two. Next year we will do the...
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    Baby chicks play fighting

    Does play fighting determine if they are a rooster or hen? or it's just normal like with any other animals? We have two that we have no idea what they will be since our hen hatched them. Thanks for the silly question of the day :)
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    Brooding Hen was killed :(

    She was laying on 18 eggs. They were cold. We put them in the incubator anyway. It's day 4 now. The incubator stinks, not sure if that's normal as we have never incubated before. We are sure there are probably some dead. I saw one moving this morning so I'm hopeful! How do I know if the others...
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    NEW BABY CHICK!!!

    Our Hen hatched out baby chick! I was checking under the hen to see if any new eggs had been tucked under her from the other chickens and noticed a broken shell... At first I was upset thinking she had brok it open then.. walla a baby chicken!!! aww :) So exciting and so nervous! lol :) So...
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    Cornish Chicken Beginner

    We bought 4 Cornish chickens around march 8th, we lost one two weeks later the 2nd one 4 weeks later. The other two did awesome. Today we processed the two last ones that are HUGE. Now we understand the 6 week mark as they are tough already. Still nice meat but a bit tough. I heard you can...
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    Roosters and Hens

    Being new chicken raisers we are a bit shocked and ... well chicken culture shocked to how roosters are with hens. LOL, wow! Here is our dilemma. Out of our baby chicks we had 2 roosters. That makes a total of 8 hens and 2 roosters. The older hens are about 2 year old and the new ones are 5...
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