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I culled 25 roosters last weekend and we’re canning them today. I cull roosters when the hen:rooster ratio gets out of whack. Hens, I cull when they start sleeping in places they shouldn’t or when I need to reduce the population. Or when we want to make soup.

No help for northerners I guess, but in the south you may be able to get rice hulls and that's what I prefer to use. Not dusty, doesn't clump, and allows moisture to pass right through.

are they getting sunlight? Free range time?

That sounds like a lot of feed. Are they fat? Fat hens won't lay.

Are they getting enough protein and calcium?

This is one of the juvenile toms the Naragansett hen produced in January. So I'm guessing by the barring on the wing feathers he is carrying one Naragansett gene?

Went to Mexico on. 4 day vacation and got back yesterday. The hen was missing. I was devastated. The boys were out searching for her last night but no sign and again this morning. Close to noon I looked out of my bedroom window and spotted her bedded down in tall grass on a hill obviously...

Just cause I think they're pretty.

I just brought 3 geese home and while they've settled in quite well I would like to deworm them as idk their history. I know Levamisole can be used in geese, but can Praziquantel? The dewormer is have on hand is a levamisole/praziquantel combo. TIA

And thank you very much for all the info. I love my turkeys but the colour genetics are even more complicated than in chickens lol!

Well I guess we'll see what I get. She requested the services of my Tom yesterday for the first time so I 'spect we'll see eggs shortly. I guess she likes the food here. Here's a few of my Tom. He's a very nice Tom. Not in that he's friendly, but he's very calm and not aggressive at all...

I picked up a hen from a small village last week(just driving by and the colour caught my eye) Once we got her home she was pretty dingy so gave her a bath. She cleaned up pretty good. I'm curious as to what colour both my hens are.

Peeps is def a roo and he needs a swift kick in the hiney. Personally I just go by the rule that the mean ones taste better.

All of my solid blue chicks have turned out hens while the Roos have contrast...but mine are B.Y. mixes and not pb.

I'm with mrs k. Give them meat or hb grated eggs. Or mealworms. Whatever, just up the protein. What is the p% of their current food?

How are your chickens?

I leave my Roos with their spurs, it's their defence against predators and other Roos.

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I live in the tropics so my experience is likely different than yours, but best I can remember( nearly two years) he went out before he was fully feathered and was fine.

I live in the tropics so my experience is likely different than yours, but best I can remember( nearly two years) he went out before he was fully feathered and was fine.