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    Rooster shaking head like a wet dog

    My 10-month-old Brahma rooster, who weighs about 6 lbs & looks very healthy, started a week ago shaking his head multiple times per hour, briefly, almost like a dog shakes off water. No one else in the very small flock does this. Surely it shouldn't be ear mites, since I treated them all with...
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    how did I live without chickens?

    Just 7 of them, none quite a year old yet. Two turned out to be cockerels and did not get along, so I separated them into 2 tiny flocks. Everyone's happy now, and I'm exhausted!
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    How to entertain a single cockerel feeling lonesome segregated from the flock?

    We have a tiny flock of 2 cockerels & 3 pullets who just started laying last month. The beta male was terrorizing at least one of the girls, so yesterday I put him in a large run all his own, but he can still hear and sometimes see the flock. Yesterday he paced nonstop, didn't eat, didn't...
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    is my Brahma (mix) rooster going to injure our 3 smaller hens?

    We asked a local breeder for seven 8-week-olds, barnyard mix in the spring. Four turned out to be roos, of which we kept 2. The big guy is sweet, mild-mannered, and takes good care of this small flock (5 total now), but he's twice as tall of the hens, and probably 3x heavier. They're fond of...
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