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Still looks like a she to me.

To update on my scared hen. She is much more comfortable now. She has even become attached to one of my roosters. She allows him to breed her now with no upset. She is still a bit odd. She is now scared of the younger hens that she herself used to harass. Apparently they remember that and now...

The (2)roosters as well as the scared hen are 5 months. A total of 18 hens at the moment. 1 rooster is breeding and is behaving like a very good rooster. The other rooster is slower to mature and is just more shy and is not breeding anyone yet. I'm not going to debate the meanings of "bossing"...

Fair enough. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. And there is nothing wrong with disagreement.

I'm sorry but the one from 1906 is NOT a study. It's an opinion, to quote them "absurd" but yet they offer no evidence. No tests.

yes a lot of it only a scientist would understand but here's a few key points, hope it helps The present study was carried out to determine the sex of the fertilized white layer eggs with using morphological measurements. A total of 300 Super Nick White Layer (54 wks of age) eggs were...

Here's a pic of eggs laid by the same hen a few days apart. I can see why sexing by shape doesn't work for some people if your hens don't have a difference like this in their eggs. I'm thinking that it may be similar to feather sexing( doesn't work on all breeds).

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-635X2013000300006 Here is a link to a study that was done on egg shape determining sex, they also included size and volume in the study. It's a bit hard to understand in spots with all the scientific jargon but worth a read. They...

In an earlier post you said you were running an experiment. I'm wondering why you bother if you are so sure egg shape sexing doesn't work? To answer your question, yes I have a few hens that I know for sure which eggs are theirs and they do vary from more rounded to more pointy. They do have...

Lol! Yes I have had the same thought. Especially when she started squawking at me until I paid attention to her. Thus my frustration. Then I see the fear in her eyes when a roosters comes near and I cave

If anyone has had success getting a hen over her fear of roosters I would love to hear about it. No more "alternatives" please. I am strictly looking for ways to get my hen over her fear. Not what to do with her if she can't recover and behave normally I can figure that part out myself. I...

I expect it will never be an accepted method as their are so many variables at play. I just find it very interesting that some people report very good success rates. I need to test it much more myself to see if I will be one of those lucky few consistently or not.

Ok getting over myself. I'm sure you didn't really mean to imply anything other than an alternative.

She is always on the top roost and she has always kinda been the odd one out in the flock. Definitely she doesn't seem to consider herself part of it even before she was traumatized by roosters. She never tries to boss larger hens though, just the young ones.

Wow that's one horrible rooster you had! It was an olive egger rooster that instigated my hen's rape but she was not injured just scared. I have been using mealworms to help bring her around and it does seem to help as long as the worms last anyway( not long). I have tried putting her in a...

Perhaps I have not made myself clear, by my saying I'm losing patience I more mean I am frustrated. I have been very patient with her. Spending hours with her so she can enjoy being outside. She is not picked on by the other hens in fact she herself tends to pick on the younger birds. I...

To prevent mites and other pests I use a combination of DE ( diatomaceous earth FOOD GRADE ONLY) wood ash and dirt in a large box for them to dust bath in. So far seems to work. I also mix the DE into their feed often to prevent worms. There are many many benefits to feeding diatomaceous...

Wow and here I thought I was a chicken lover that is trying to find a way to help my hen get over her fear, but I guess in actuality I'm just a cruel person with no feeling whatsoever!

Anyone have any ideas for how to get a hen over being scared of roosters? i have one hen that is rediculously scared of the roosters. She was gang raped once by a group of young roosters but she wasn't injured (they got sold or went in the freezer). The roosters I have left are about as nice...

Sexing eggs by shape does work but not 100% by any means. Most people that claim success with it say they get 60%-70% success overall. So for all you nae-sayers that argue it can't possibly be true that it could work at all because large hatcheries don't do it because it would save them money...