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Yes, he's alone. He handles it fine. It's just life to him. He wants to mate, but he never has. So, there's some of the 'don't know what you're missing' going on, too. We don't breed ours, so he was just an accident of day-old-chick purchasing. We only get them now when they're old enough...

Jackie is a superb rooster, but we really don't want the fertilized eggs. We are vegetarians and have hens for animal rights reasons. Fertilized eggs are one step too close to a living animal. We haven't figured out a way to allow mixing that wouldn't also allow births, some of which would be...

Thank you so much! I've been trying to figure it out, but am not really closing in on a good idea. I don't want to clip wings, because I want them to be able to get away if a predator should wander through during the day; but I also want to protect them from those at night. Sigh. Catch 22.

Yeah. They used to roost low at my friend's house. But, they'd started going up to the roof, and then up into trees from there. But 6' might be high enough for the others.

The rooster does not free range. I don't want fertilized eggs. He couldn't possibly roost with the hens. He has his own coop, with a lot of room. It's not ideal, but it's where we are. He has very high roosting options in his coop.

No, I haven't! My coop is a 'bought on amazon' coop. The nesting/sleeping part is on a second level. I had a large/tall coop, but the hens all free range all day, and the tall one now belongs to the rooster, who doesn't (we never intended to have a rooster, but got him as a day old 4 years...

Thank you so much! Yeah, my friend's mom gave them so many mealworms that they would ignore actual worms! I would like them to stay home, first and foremost, but I would like them as tame as possible. Part of the reason is that my hens have decided the porch is where they should roost...

So, there's a side view, a front view, and one to show the difference in combs. They're all three different as far as combs. Two have green legs, one has bright yellow. The green legged ones (Sam and Frances) have larger eyes. The yellow legged one (Serena) has the middle sized comb.

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To show the difference in combs.

I'll have to wait until daylight.

Thanks! Yeah, I wish I had a covered run, but I just let them out all day and put them away at night. I usually put new additions in for 10-14 days anyway. I'm just not sure if that will be enough for these gals. You think it would be? I should have quarantined. I know that. I didn't...

My friend asked me to take some of 'her' hens. It turns out these chickens have been living in a highly populated old downtown neighborhood for decades, but are 'wild.' Her mother started feeding them and building them coops 50 years ago, so they come back to their house to have babies, and to...

We've removed all the intestinal pieces so that we'll know for sure if it happens again that it's new. I don't know how stable she is. She's weak, but she's been sick (first with a very bad illness) for 3 weeks (maybe more, as I said, I didn't know her well enough to recognize signs). So, she...

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/82/infectious-coryza Her sister died from this (they were both new to my coup, so I didn't recognize early signs of 'seeming different'). So, I started treating this one right away, as well as my other hens who had been exposed to the one who died...

When I first wrote this, it was on my phone. I put 'Choriza' and it autocorrected to chorizo. It is spelled Coryza.

I think I spelled it wrong, so I'm trying to find what she had.