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    Success rate of sneaking chicks under broody hen?

    What's the success rate of sneaking chicks under a broody hen in the middle of the night? Any anecdotal evidence from anyone, any tips for success? Worried about my broody hen, she's been on a nest of non-viable eggs for way too long
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    How much meat am I losing if I cull a cockerel at 14 weeks?

    He is a regular Americana. Supposed to be female, though I suppose even the hatcheries only guarantee 90% accuracy on sexed chicks. We have like seven of the roosters we have to butcher this week (long story). Anyway, I was wondering if it was worth just getting the meat on him now as opposed...
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    When to Mercy kill an egg bound hen?

    We left for 5 days to go to a wedding, and had an automatic water and feeder in their coop. When we got back, one of them is laying on the ground with her feet in the air twitching. She ate and drank a little when we put her in a separate box, but she can't really stand. I'm afraid she's badly...
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    DIY recipe spray to replace veterycin spray?

    I'm way out in the country with three small toddlers, and my husband is gone on a business trip. I have a wounded chicken. I've washed her and salt water and applied triple antibiotic ointment to her wound, but I want something to spray on it regularly. She's away from the others in her own...
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    Large Bloody 4 inch gash in back of 1 yr old Wyandotte Hen

    Large Bloody 4 inch gash in back of 1 yr old Wyandotte Hen. I was wondering if it was the roosters over mating her (we have 4 roosters to 8 hens, will be culling roosters soon), but my husband says it looks like a wild animal attack. It's been gusty here, we have a lot of hawks. Our chickens...
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    Rooster vs Cockerel libido?

    We're having issues with over mating of our hens and are deciding which roosters to eat. Is it true that roosters are more mating crazy between 6 and 11 months then after 12 months? We have a 11 month old rooster (maybe 9 months if the lady I bought him from was confused) who is otherwise a...
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    Tractor Supply Mandatory Chicken registry?

    When I went to buy my chicks from tractor supply, the lady at the counter insisted that I had to fill out all my personal information in a chicken registry, including my phone number, email and home address. She made it sound like this was a legal requirement. Something about having to keep...
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    Americana Tractor Supply?

    I picked up eight sexed female chicks from Tractor supply that were marked "Americana" with Legbar parentage. I'm trying to find more on this crossbreed, but all I keep finding is stuff on the true breed Ameraucana. At the moment I just want to make sure that I actually do have female chicks...
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    Can you freeze a whole chicken and process it later?

    Can you freeze a whole headless chicken and process it later? We already drained the blood and cut off the head, scalded it and plucked off the feathers. So ... Can we just stick it in a gallon Ziploc bag and freeze it... And just thaw it out later and then scrape out all the guts and chop it...
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    Coq au vin? Tips for cooking year old roosters

    I've only ever cooked baby 8-week Cornish cross from the store before. I've been told that real grown chickens are a whole another story, and these were tough free range roosters that lived a full life.... Someone said that once upon a time Coq au Vin was a recipe designed for tough old...
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    How long does it take to pluck a rooster by hand?

    So our straight run chicks grew up to be 50% rooster as is expected, but our hens only pullets turned out to only be 2/3 female. Now we have 8 roosters and 10 hens, and we can only keep three roosters at the most. Probably 2 is better. (They all free range and there are some predators about...
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    Do young hens stop laying for the winter?

    I know older hens will stop laying for the winter, but what about hens that are 7.5 months old and have been laying since about 5 months old? It got really cloudy here, and at night time started dipping below freezing. It still warms up into the 60s during the day. Our hens free range during...
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    Can Pointy vs Round eggs tell the sex?

    Someone told me that cockrells are more likely to hatch from pointy eggs, and pullets I'm more likely to hatch from round eggs. Is this true? 🤔
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    Neighbors cat hanging out around my chickens

    The neighbor's cat has been hanging out around my chickens. The cat makes them very nervous, they all sort of go stock still, and the full grown ones flutter up to the top of the coop. The poor little pullets though just huddle in the bushes. What's the chances that this cat's going to try to...
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    Purina All flock Pellets -- terrible smell

    I just bought a new bag of Purina all flock pellets, and they smell terrible, like the awful smell of dog food but a little worse. Is this normal? (My previous bag of feed was nutrena nature-wise 20% protein all flock, and it smelled like basil pesto). Typically, does chicken feed smell bad...
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    Adopted skinny pullets don't recognize feed

    I bought nine six month old pullets that look like they're three months old, as they were free rangers with just a little bit of kitchen scraps before. They were also from an enormous flock of over 40 free ranging hens, and I think the majority of them were at the bottom of the pecking order in...
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    Most humane way to kill a rooster?

    What is the most humane way to kill a rooster? We are rather attached to them but we've got too many and we need the meat. Also the three we're going to call are very nice to us but abuse the hens. Today they went after a sexually immature pullet, she was pretty terrified, throwing herself...
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    Hatch rates of broody hatch vs incubator hatch?

    What are the typical rates between a incubator and a broody hen? I'm aware that there's a wide number of factors to the point that this might be a stupid question to ask. But for someone who has a choice between a budget breeder and a hen, is the hen the better bet? Our hens tend to be...
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    4 Cooped up hen's yolks are all getting a little paler...what should I feed them?

    They're 6 months old, currently cooped up when they used to free range a month ago because of our rooster problem (we currently have a free ranging bachelor flock, at some point we will harvest some of them and get more hens before we free-range them all together again). Anyway, their yolks...
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    Chicken wire on coop floor?

    Chicken wire on coop floor? Or is this a really bad idea? My husband is redesigning their coop, and he thought it would be more predator-proof if he had chicken wire wrapping the entire wooden structure (it's an 8x8x8 cube), including the floor. I was worried that they would obsessively...
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