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I have a mix of ages my oldest was hatched in 2008 she is my baby. Some hens retire and stay here for their natural lives others are culled, if they are flighty or mean they tend to go to freezer camp other culls are sold or given away.

Trying my hand at homesteading.

Killing a raccoon is the only way to get rid of it, raccoons will take chickens during daylight hours as well. I wish you luck catching it they are extremely smart.

Raccoons have been our worst taking 20+ in a single night it doesn't help that they kill for fun. Next would be domestic dogs. Between both I have lost over $500 worth of chickens.

They all appear to be female.

New babies sleep a lot to regain their strength from hatching. In my experience (I have been hatching chickens for 10 years) they do not usually (there are exceptions) begin to get active and really run around until they have been out of the egg for 12-24 hours at least. In nature the first to...

I love having rooters around too they can be so sweet I am the type who would still keep roosters even with no hens as I tend to become more attacked to my rooters than my hens. How does caponizing not cause the birds to go into shock? I am curious because every bird I have had with a opened...

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