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Oh I am camera happy at the moment with my chickens, our White Cochin hen has 7 babies with 3 more hatching tonight!- Pnoah1
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First baby taking a peek out from its new mama.- Pnoah1
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Look at all the babies our mama has, shes got plentry more coming to! The father of the Chicks, Mr Einstein.- Pnoah1
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Well I haven't done it I was just saying I read you could do that, but I am just sticking with trying to keep fake eggs built into the nest boxes. How do you get a hen to take to chicks might I ask? https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/657764/how-do-i-encourage-my-hens-to-go-broody#post_8881988...- Pnoah1
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I read on a different forum that if you bring a bx with a door built into the house if you stick like golf balls under the hen and keep her in the box, let her out once a day to get food and water like a hen would when shes broody it will stimulate her to become broody.- Pnoah1
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Pennsylvania
I live in Montrose, PA I have one Frizzle Rooster with 12 hens. Anyone around there?- Pnoah1
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Does anyone know a good way to start getting hens to get broody and set I would like our Cochin Bantam to set soon or our Silkie hen to set soon but they are only laying eggs and abandoning them, I have tried to put fake eggs in there nest boxes to trick them into gathering eggs. Any ideas?- Pnoah1
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Sick chick.
We recently got a cluster of Bantam chicks (2months old) and one of them a Buff Silkie recently started showing signs of sickness so I removed the other chicks and moved them to a new holding pen and kept this one by herself. She won't get up and walk around and sleeps mainly I checked her Vent...- Pnoah1
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Rooster Attacking Me
Another thing you can do if Sam is being far to dominant it is because he sees you as a rooster I had this problem with a Silkie rooster, he would get angry and attack me. The other silkie rooster was subordinate and wouldn't do anything. So I would pick up the dominant rooster and carry him...- Pnoah1
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Ah, I see! I find it odd that white is more dominant then black, normally Black would be a more dominant trait but for chickens it seems otherwise.- Pnoah1
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So if I get a barred cochin frizzle will it still be a barre frizzle in APA mind set?- Pnoah1
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Well we have a hen of the bottom one, are you saying we cannot breed that one to the white frizzle roo?- Pnoah1
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I have spoken with professionals at a competition for show chickens called the Harford fair, he stated that if you breed a regulare Barred Rock Bantam with a white Cochin Rooster you have a chance of getting a barred rock Frizzle.- Pnoah1
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Awesome!- Pnoah1
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There is no real good grass for the winter as most chickens tend to stick to there coups during the cold seasons, when the grass starts growing again during the spring then the grass you have already should be fine. Though Perennial fescues is a good year round growing grass that should work...- Pnoah1
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Question on my roosters...
Well the roosters we have, where I live out in the Boonies. We have observed out roosters tussling with a Coon we intervened in time before things got far out of hand, if you have a rooster and it was confronted with a coon in broad daylight and his flock was nearby don't you think he would...- Pnoah1
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Hahaha, they get lazy if they don't scratch. I love to sit on my cousins swing set and watch them all clutter around scratching at the ground and leaves hunting for food! Hahaha, he is an iffy chicken he lets you pick him up sometimes or sometimes he will run away from you. I love when he...- Pnoah1
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Of course, I love talking about chickens it is a great passion for me! What kind of grain do you feed them, I normally spread some scratch grain in there yard during the winter so they have something to look forward to when they wake up and a filler to get them bigger. I noticed the filler...- Pnoah1
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Bantams tend to lay less then regular standard breeds, and my frizzle when she lays they are normally small like a Silkie bantams eggs. How old is your Frizzle hen?- Pnoah1
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Question on my roosters...
The thing about roosters is that they will protect there flocks with there lives, I mean no rooster is not rough on its hens its what they call establishing the pecking order. It is the way chickens are and how they will always be, even hens are mean to one another because they have to set up a...- Pnoah1
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