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Surprise! It's a rooster!
I guess this is a common problem. Thought we got six new hens (to add to our existing four layers) but one is starting to crow. I'm a newbie and am wonderful what this will mean to our eggs. We're not interested in hatching at this time, just in having eggs to eat. How is the rooster going to...- mimsky
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- Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
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Young male turkey challenging husband and teenage son
A friend gave us a six-month-old male turkey, a month or two ago. I think he's trying to establish alpha male and is in competition with my husband and 19-year-old son (who's home from college). We got him to guard our free-range chickens (who roam all day and go into the coop at night. He does... -
Will my chickens eat my mushrooms?
I am about to set up two mushroom gardens (white caps and shitake) and don't know if my free-range girls are going to eat all my effort. I've only had them about five months and let them roam from noon until nightfall each day. I fenced off my vegetable garden with temporary fencing, to keep...- mimsky
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- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Chickens and Mushrooms
I am about to set up two mushroom gardens (white caps and shitake) and don't know if my free-range girls are going to eat all my effort. I've only had them about five months and let them roam from noon until nightfall each day. I fenced off my vegetable garden with temporary fencing, to keep... -
Laying eggs I can't get to
We have our girls in a chicken tractor and let them roam the yard all day. Here's my problem. Our house (people house, not chicken house) is raised and my girls are just starting to lay. They are going up under the house during the day then later I'll find the eggs they laid under there out in...- mimsky
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- Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying