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Chicken doesn’t like me
Hey BYC, I’ve got a couple questions. I just had to swap my cockerel out for a pullet. She’s being quarantined. The problem is she, along with the rest of the chickens at the farm I got her at, don’t particularly like human touch. She looks to be about 9-10 weeks old, an ISA brown & leghorn mix...- Sliiiq
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- 9 week old chicken angry chicken fiesty little chick isa brown leghorn new chicken new pullet pullet quarantine scared bird
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- Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
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Questions about Swapping a Rooster?? :(
Hello, second ever post here. I’ve got three chickens, and they’re about 9 weeks old. After realizing I had a cockerel, I wanted to make sure neither of my other ones were as well. Now comes the issue of swapping him (he seems to be the top of the pecking order, considering my hens follow him...- Sliiiq
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- cockerel flock additions flock behaviour giving a rooster away loud chicken pecking order rooster rooster call suburban chickens swapping
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- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Sexing and determining breed of 6 week olds, and other questions
First time user, bare with me here, you can answer whichever you like… 1. I’ve got 3 chicks, and I don’t know what their breeds are. Leghorns? Orpington? The two bigger ones (1&2) are supposedly 6 weeks and the 3rd is 5 weeks. Might be stupidly obvious, but I also want to know which is male...- Sliiiq
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- 5 week old 6 week chick 6 week old breed & gender determining breed grass in poo grit hot chickens panting sexing
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- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks