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  1. WVBassFan

    Trashy dogs!

    Not all dogs and not all pits... My, (pit mix) lives happily with my chickens. They all roam freely and hang together put that took some work. I would say one of those electric netting fences with the juice cranked up pretty high should do the trick for future birds
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    Comment by 'WVBassFan' in article 'What To Do With Unwanted Cockerels'

    It chaps my rear when people complain about a rooster crowing but seem to let go the other sounds that persists in neighborhoods today... Harley Davidson's, diesel trucks, briggs and stratton engines, leaf blowers, wood chippers and even kids playing all are just as loud or even louder than a...
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    How to turn eggs in an egg carton?

    I’m too late for sure sorry just saw the post ... any tilt is enough it’s just to keep the fluid from drying and sticking to the shell... did your incubation work out? How many?
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    Eggs for food vs eggs for chicks...sound off please

    I only have one rooster and he has 6 hens... one went broody this year so I left her alone (mark eggs with marker and remove her each day to get the fresh ones) 21 days later she hatched 5 ... I went and purchased a few more and she raised them ... her brood is done and I’m 9 chicks to the good...
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    Complicated Situation

    I appreciate all the tips... I have been brooding separately but thats what I'm trying to avoid. Mama is taking her little ones out and teaching them to hunt and peck. We free range so I am hoping for a more natural approach... I think I'm going to try to reintroduce... P.S. Mama has been...
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    Complicated Situation

    I have a rather complicated situation and looking for some advice... Not even sure this is the proper thread... I had a hen go broody so I let her sit on 10 eggs. we had 5 that hatched and she was doing well. Within a couple days we purchased 6 pullets hoping for adoption... she adopted some...
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    How to turn eggs in an egg carton?

    What I do is put eggs in paper carton... point down...prop something under the side of the incubator... I use a foam roller... two or three times a day I switch sides... my incubator doesn't ever set level... I add water through a hose i installed, I have to do it more often but other than that...
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    Older Rooster or same age rooster

    I've also read that it might help to have a couple of Guinea fowl in there also... any thoughts on that? are they better for predators? they get along with chicks in the coop?
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    Older Rooster or same age rooster

    So you see a benefit to a mature rooster but don't even get one until the hens are mature... I'm also thinking protection. While I am going to do my best to secure my coop I'm not sure any coop is 100 percent...I had a young rooster that didn't fair so well with the possum... wouldn't a more...
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    Older Rooster or same age rooster

    besides farming I'm learning the art of trapping too ;)
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    Older Rooster or same age rooster

    now I am ripping it all down and will build it right... I built a "bombproof" one at my other place so I know how, just seemed nice to already have one...
  12. WVBassFan

    Older Rooster or same age rooster

    I have a great neighbor... I just moved here and there was an existing coop so I put a few hens and a roo in it... one by one I found them dead... still can't figure how it got in but I eventually trapped a possum in the coop... a few days after it killed the last chicken :(
  13. WVBassFan

    Older Rooster or same age rooster

    incubator ... neighbor is giving me some fertile hatching eggs
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    Older Rooster or same age rooster

    well thats another thought... makes sense, thanks
  15. WVBassFan

    Older Rooster or same age rooster

    Hopefully this is the right group to ask this question... wanted some input... I lost all my chickens over the winter to predators so I'm starting all over with a new coop... hopefully predator proof this time... I will be hatching my own eggs (barnyard mix) however there are some young roosters...
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    Help Identifying Please

    seriously ??? WOW just my luck... I really hope your wrong but I have really worried... I incubated 12... 7 hatched... what are the odds that only one be female???
  17. WVBassFan

    Help Identifying Please

    I have 7 total.... the little black one that everyone thinks is a rooster...the white one... the all brown one.... 2 brown and blacks and 2 that are mostly black with brown.... here is the all brown... and one more of brown with black
  18. WVBassFan

    Help Identifying Please

    another pic of the white one another pic of number 2.... i think he's a rooster ...
  19. WVBassFan

    Help Identifying Please

    Today the chicks are 7 weeks old ... we hatched them on March 22nd we were hoping we could get a little more information on what may be hens and what may be roos.... thanks in advance for any input same bird another pic
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    Help Identifying Please

    That particular one does act strange... Not sure what's going on with it...
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