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    She just left?

    Hi, i'm rather puzzled. yesterday, i was outside in my garden/backyard with my baby around 6 pm and both my barred rock hens were around. about 8:30 when i went to check on them and feed and refresh water for the new chicks, there was only one hen in the coop. they've been free ranging for 2...
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    is she broody and what should i do?

    Hi, i have 2 barred rock hen and 2 roosters. a few days ago we started to notice one of our hen sit in the box every time we go in. we got them as day old around the 24th of june 2011 and they started laying last fall. she sit low in the box and just make gentle, quiet clucks. and since that...
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    freezer time for some roos, which goes and which stays?

    i have 12 barred rock, 2 turned out to be hens and 10 roosters. we're thinking about keeping 2 roosters with our hens and getting rid of the other 8. they are not show bird, just commercial grade but i'd still like to cultivate them to have a nice flock. we're taking them to be butchered in...
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    first week in coop/run but not going in coop on their own

    about 4 days ago, we finally finished the coop and run and got the chicks out of our house. we only made one door to the run and realized that it was difficult to move the run around, need 2 people to do it and 2 people are not always available to move it around morning and evening to let them...
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    i think we build the coop too small. newbie dilemma

    hi, we have 12 barred rock chicks and hubby build them a 4'x4'6" coop we originally made 8 nesting box (4 wide by 2 high) but learned that we don't need that many box because more then one use the same box. so if we take down all the dividers for the bottom, it gives them 4.5' x 4' of floor...
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    Hello from Atlantic Canada

    Hi, i'm a new mommy to a dozen barred rock chicks. we got them as day old almost 3 weeks ago. i found this site while googling for some info. trying to figure out how many hen/rooster i ended up getting. there's also a youtube video i saw about an automatic feeder that gave a link to this...
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