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  1. Jeanne Deaux

    Salpingitis Home Treatement - Lash Egg

    Okay, thank you. So if I find her and end up treating with antibiotics, I would need to separate her in order to be sure to keep any eggs she might lay out of collection?
  2. Jeanne Deaux

    California - Northern

    Hi to Northern Californians-- My daughter lives in Berkeley now and would like to find someone local with a small flock of organic free-range hens from which to buy eggs. She's vegan but eats my eggs when home because she knows the hens are loved and happy and never mistreated. Anyone in or near...
  3. Jeanne Deaux

    Mean mature hens

    The outer pen area is about 500 square feet and secured top and bottom from predators. So partial free-range, just safe. I think it's enough room for 3 mature and 12 adolescent birds for the time being, no?
  4. Jeanne Deaux

    Mean mature hens

    Yes, the nest boxes have fresh straw and pine shavings in a nice soft nest. I can't get near these hens to put them in there unless I were to do it while they are sleeping, which doesn't seem like a good idea, no?
  5. Jeanne Deaux

    Mean mature hens

    Okay, thanks. Can I expect eggs from the new, mature hens anytime soon?? Or is the fact that it is hot as well as a new lodging going to mean a long break for them? And will they find the nest boxes on their own??
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    Mean mature hens

    Hi, I have 12 chickens at 11 and 13 weeks of age (Dominiques, Black Australorps, and RIR-mixes) but am anticipating culling 4-5 roosters so I got three new mature hens (Barred Rocks) last Saturday. I separated them until Sunday night when I put them in to sleep with the others. Now they are...
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    11- and 13-week old chickens--need to manage the flock. Please help with identifying and selecting?

    I did it!! Moved the mature Barred Rock hens in the dark into the hen house (had help with flashlight) and then the three Dominique roosters outside to separate area. Tomorrow I will put in a roosting pole for this pen. I left both red roosters because everyone was waking up and jumping down...
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    11- and 13-week old chickens--need to manage the flock. Please help with identifying and selecting?

    Wow. Okay, thanks for all the advice! I would try to catch the new girls in the pen (not easy in the light let alone in the dark!) and carry into the house tonight but they squawk so much I'm afraid they'll wake all the others.
  9. Jeanne Deaux

    11- and 13-week old chickens--need to manage the flock. Please help with identifying and selecting?

    Also, do you really mean you put on a leg band? I'd love to be able to keep track of the three Dominque roosters that way. How/what do you use?
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    11- and 13-week old chickens--need to manage the flock. Please help with identifying and selecting?

    Thanks for the welcome! So even though some are crowing and fights have occurred, they are still to young to cull? I added three Barred Rock mature hens yesterday and though I have them separated by chicken wire, there have been spats. Also those three have not laid an egg since I got them. I'm...
  11. Jeanne Deaux

    11- and 13-week old chickens--need to manage the flock. Please help with identifying and selecting?

    Thanks to you both. Advantages of Dominque roosters vs. RIRs or whatever they are? I'm not planning to breed (or eat them), just keeping one cock to help protect when I let them free range. But at the moment NONE of the 5 roosters let the girls eat first. I guess they are still too busy...
  12. Jeanne Deaux

    11- and 13-week old chickens--need to manage the flock. Please help with identifying and selecting?

    Hi everyone. I'm new here and to chicken raising. I have four 13-week Black Australorp pullets and eight 11-week straight runs of which four are Dominiques and four are a mystery. Of the latter, one is all white (was a pure yellow chick) and three are reddish brown. I don't know if they are EEs...
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