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    Dealing with a 1 year old rooster

    Last year our hens hatched a chick, turned out to be a cockerel. Our flock consisted of 5 hens & 1 rooster all 4 years old. This past April, when cockerel was now a 1 year old rooster, several hens had broken feathers on their back. My husband witnessed the older rooster driving the young one...
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    What to do with bedding when trying to eliminate mites

    We just realized we have a mite infestation. I'll buy some poultry dust, we'll clean out the coop, spray it down, dust it, dust the birds, put fresh pine flakes in. It looks like most people say to 'bag the old bedding and throw it away'. I hate to throw stuff into the land fill if it can be...
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    Must I withhold food before culling our rooster?

    We have an aggressive rooster we're planning on culling tomorrow. I read somewhere that food (not water) should be withheld before butchering, but it was years ago I read it and not certain I remember correctly. I could also use some advice on the process. We separated the aggressive rooster...
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    Treating for sour crop

    Our (1st ever) chickens are 6 months old. We noticed an australorp hen not quite moving around right maybe a day or 2 ago, today figuring out it's a problem with her crop. All the articles say to separate her from the flock, keep in a cage. So she's in a dog kennel in the garage, away from...
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    Are 2 roosters (cockerels?) to 13 hens (pullets?) a livable ratio?

    This is our 1st year with chickens. They are now just over 17 weeks old; somebody has started egg-laying, hence I'm not sure if they qualify for their adult names yet. We ended up with 2 males, Chief and Brownie, both Gold Laced Wyandotts. The remaining flock consists of 1 female Gold Laced...
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    Do pullets have sense to come in out of rain?

    Our 15 chicks / pullets are just about 7 weeks old - our very 1st chicks. We moved them into the coop at 5 weeks, and let them into their protected run a few days later. On cold nights - less than 50 F - we've had heat on; and on very cold days (like yesterday, high of 43F and lots of cold...
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    Introducing Maureen in Chesterton

    We don't own chickens yet, but just started today working on prepping the area that we intend to build our coop & chicken yard. We've danced around the idea for several years...and decided this is the time to try to increase our self-reliance. I've learned a little about chicken-keeping - and...
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