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    Rooster age and fertility

    I have had a cockerel for about 3 years and he isn't showing signs of waning. Produced a clutch of 10 fertile eggs just 4 months ago.
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    Sexing half BSL and half BO Chicks

    UPDATE: Turned out those three with the different wing development (pictured above) were hens as I had suspected. The other five are roosters.
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    Will momma hen adopt 10 2 week old chicks?

    I have a brood hen (Dashiell) that hatched a clutch of eight chicks back on June 21st and the chicks have been hanging out with her ever since, learning the ways of the chicken. It is probably past time for her to separate from them. We just purchased 6 baby chicks. I have seen answers to...
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    Sexing half BSL and half BO Chicks

    Thank you I will be waiting to see. Hoping for at least a few laying hens.
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    Sexing half BSL and half BO Chicks

    I have read about color sexing a Blacksexlink but do the same rules apply if the Chicky Daddy is a Buff Orpington? My Broody BSL hid a clutch and now I have 8 little ones running round my garden. Two are Buff and the rest look like Blacksexlink. They are about 9 days old now and three of them...
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    chickens eat slugs?!?!?!?

    I came to this post to find out about chickens eating slugs and learned about them eating toads & frogs as well. Now I have to rethink allowing them to free range in my pond area. ...But about the slugs: I brought my lame chicken over to where I had moved some bricks and exposed a feast of...
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    Buff Orpington Gender Behavior

    Thanks for the help. Looks like there is a consensus that I have two boys in my hen house.
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    Buff Orpington Gender Behavior

    It is just one comb flopping in two directions. It is a very tall comb with long spires (?) - not sure of the correct term for it.
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    Buff Orpington Gender Behavior

    First time Chicken owner, first time posting. I have 7 Chickens, two of them are Buff Orpington. The Orpingtons are the same size as each other, they both crow and they both mount the girls. But the one in question is less aggressive has lighter and only slightly smaller comb and waddles...
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