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    What did it?

    Okay, so I lost some chickens. There are no bodies, very little feathers lost, but there was a small trail into my neighbor's overgrown yard. My dog found and killed a 'possum near the trail, but I am still not convinced. There were piles of feathers nearly 100 yards from the coop, and I...
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    Someone talk me out of this...

    There is a person down the street getting rid of 9 cornish hen chicks and 9 laying hen chicks, all three weeks old. I have a flock of bantams that are about 9 weeks old. Someone please assure me that I'm making the right choice not raising these chicks a few more weeks then adding them to the...
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    Hatching a double egg?

    I have seen plenty of doubled yolked eggs, and I was just curious, what happens if you incubate them? Are they mainly infertile or do the young inside just not survive or do you end up with (conjoined) twins? Also, I have seen hens lay that odd ball "tiny" egg. I had a bantam lay an egg...
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    The Impossible Flock

    My photos are being slow to upload and these ones are not so good, but what happens when you raise guineas, pheasants, and bantams together and then let them free range? Apparently, they just pile up in the sun...
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    Mixed flock (chickens, guineas, pheasants)

    So I have 5 guineas, 21 bantam chickens, and 2 pheasants that are all about 9 weeks old. They are a very close group, and instead of roosting, they just pile up in the coop (there will be questions at the end of this post, hold on). Of the chickens, there are 6 roosters with a possible 7th that...
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    How far will they go????

    Okay, so let's just say 5 of my chickens go separated from the flock. It's the first weekend I have let them free range as they are 9 weeks old. They wandered off… and my question is how far will they go if they cannot find the run??? All of my other birds (including two pheasants and 5...
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    He? WHAT IS HE?

    Now I'm 90% sure it is a cockerel although it's developed way slower than the others and acts like a girl… Obviously, based on that second picture he is not as rooster like as my other boy, but hey, no judgment. BUT WHAT BREED IS IT?!?!
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    Rooster "Bull Pen"

    So, I have 6 (and a possible 7) young roosters developing with 14 (or 15) hens. The roosters are my boys, so to speak, so I don't want to kill them all (maybe one or two), so I was thinking of having a separate pen where I kept them together (and they could not see the hens). I heard this is...
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    How not to build a perfect coop

    Hi ya'll. My chickens grew a lot faster than I was ready for, so by myself, with one hand in a cast, I had to build a coop this past weekend! Step 1: Make a frame… One of the hardest parts and unfortunately the part that made the rest challenging. Why? Because it is very hard to keep...
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    WHAT ARE THESE?

    Breed wise.
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    Flavored Feed

    Two questions, what the heck type of chickens are these two, and does anyone else flavor their chicken's feed? I admit, red kool-aid wasn't the best choice since that my blood train them, but they love it more than little kids. The picture is after most of them have eaten for a while. I used...
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    Suicide Squad

    These guineas (aka the Suicide Squad) are the most aggressive birds I have deal with so far at least when they are this young (4 weeks). One of them started picking a fight with everyone, and it was fighting two pheasants (4 weeks) at once. It was like watching a T-rex fight some raptors the...
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    Roof color

    Does it matter what color shingles I use on my coop roof? I live in Ohio. Some posts I seen seemed to shy away from black roofs for the heat they generate, which would make sense in summer, but what about winter?
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    Cockerels or Pullets?

    I have 21 chicks, and they are nearing 4 weeks. I identified a couple cockerels and quite a few pullets, but I have some tweeners that I am attempting to prepare for. I'm not sure on the breeds, likely cochins. Of the millefleur, I already identified my rooster. This is the one I am...
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    Bantam Rooster and Standard Hens

    I might end up with too high of a ratio of roosters to hens (bantams), and I was thinking of getting a few more hens. Would my bantam roosters be satisfied with standard size hens, or will those be too big of women? I say "more to love" in this case, but I am not a rooster so I have no idea what...
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    What's the BIGGEST breed?

    What breed of chicken is the biggest? I know some of those cornish crosses get fat, but they have a lot of problems because of it. So I want to know if anyone knows the biggest breeds that are natural growers, and not meant for food only because they are too fat to function and have heart...
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    Rabbit Waterer

    Has anyone ever seen chicks figure out how to drink from a rabbit waterer where the end is blocked by a metal ball? I filled one up today and left it as an addition to their other water, and they figured it out. I was impressed!
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    Pros and Cons of getting a turkey with my chickens

    I have 21 bantam chicks, 5 keets, and 2 pheasant chicks. All between 2-4 weeks. A local guy is selling turkey poults between 1-3 weeks. What are the pros and cons to getting one? It would be American Heritage Bronze, and I am nervous it would just get way too big to join the flock. I hope to get...
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    Bell Training Birds

    I decided to get a bell and bell train my birds. They are still too young to be in the coop so I figured now would be a good time to plan it out. I am thinking it will be like Pavlovs experiment with the dog and bell. I'll ring it when I feed them, and so whenever they hear the bell, they will...
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    Coop - Run Size - Design for guineas, chickens, and pheasants

    I have 21 bantams, 2 pheasants, and 5 guineas being brooded together right now. If I need 3 square feet per bird, I am looking at 84 square feet. I never heard of the 3 square foot rule, I just knew about roosting space. I always raised my birds with just a small coop, maybe 10 square feet for...
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