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    When do your cockerels crow?!

    I have a hypothesis that the time a rooster crows in the morning is directly correllated to the amount of light the animal associates with "night time" "morning time" and "day time", the factor of whether there are other roosters within "crowing range", and the time of day these other roosters...
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    Oyster Shells?

    I pour it into a metal dog dish and keep it next to the feeder. The birds seem to know what it's for. You could try mixing it with feed, in the ratios on the bag, if you feel your birds aren't eating enough of it.
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    EE's dont look CLOSE to ready...Take a look please

    Yeah, old boy Aku doesn't put the moves on my Ameraucana/EE's yet either, but he definetly maks a run for the Marans and Wyandottes ladies.
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    Chickens digging around water bowl

    I hang my waterer from a chain about five inches off the ground or so (about chest height for the birds). It keeps the birds from knocking it over or making it messy when they scratch around it. They don't seem to mind the fact that it sways slightly in the breeze. I also hang the feeder, but a...
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    Feedback on Learning Center "Treats Chart"

    This isn't on the list, but in a way it's represented.... but we feed our birds inexpensive cockatiel feed we buy from Wally World as a treat. They tear it up like mad, and it has all kinds of different grains and seeds in it, including sunflower seeds. We take a handful of the stuff and scatter...
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    What happens to your chickens when they get old and stop laying?

    Ours haven't reached that time in their lives yet, but ours will wind up in the dumplin's pot, or sold, post butchering and plucking, to soemone who likes organically raised partial free range soup hens.
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    What time does your flock go to sleep?

    Entire flock starts to hop on onto their roost pole about 6:30, but they'll go back and forth from the pole to the ground for a bit, usually, and old boy Aku waits until all his ladies are up for the night before he really gets settled in and tries to get some shuteye. They're not asleep till...
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    Does anyone know how to make a roo crow less???

    The roo across the way is probably making him even crowy-ier, sadly, but if you're attatched and don't wanna go the dumplings route, definetly rehome him somewhere. Try posting ads at the feed store, or even craigslist. Aku, our "keeper" roo, crows every morning, starting like clockwork at 4:30...
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    EE's dont look CLOSE to ready...Take a look please

    Quote: More support to my growing theory that EEs and Ameraucanas are just late bloomers somehow. Mine still look really pullety (small, and leggy, and leanish sort of) , and their same-age counterparts Marans and Wyandottes look like fat young matrons, and are all kind of squatty. I've heard...
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    Hens Crowing Like Roosters - Need help!!

    Yeah, that's definitely a cockerel, I'd agree. We had what looked like a flock of ten young ladies, until we bought our big pretty boy Aku, and then one of our largest, more aggressive "Hens" (I felt that the bird was just taking the "rooster role," because it really looked like a hen to me--...
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    EE's dont look CLOSE to ready...Take a look please

    When I say good amount of time, I mean that the Amaraucanas were about 2-3 wks when purchased, and that was in like... mid-late April, or maybe early May.
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    EE's dont look CLOSE to ready...Take a look please

    Our Ameraucanas (probably EEs, actually, they're just hardware store birds) are similar to these guys. It's been a pretty good amount of time since they were bought/hatched, but they still seem to be "lightfaced" and aren't getting squatty. Our cockerel doesn't try to mount them yet either, like...
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