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    Question about behavior - aggressive/cute conundrum

    I have seen several posts where people are advised to not allow their chicks/pullets to jump on them because it can lead to aggressive behavior but there seem to be an equal number of people who have cuddly hens. How do you tell the difference when they are young if they are beginning to be...
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    Silly nesting behavior

    This may simply be entertaining for you but if anyone has any ideas I'm all ears. My five April 2018 girls started laying this fall and are really pretty consistent about it. At first one preferred a spot in the hayloft - I finally found it and was collecting from up there but then she...
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    New babies!! Can you guess the breed?

    My Silver Wyandottes were more black on their body color but they had similar racing stripes on their backs. So my guess is another color Wyandotte. I named them Danika Patrick and Julie Krone. And then Danika had to be renamed Nikki Lauda. :(
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    Chicken seem scared of me

    4 of my 6 week old chicks love to hop on my lap and be petted and held. The other 2 don't want much to do with me. For all of them, though, if I pick them up from the front, sort of scooping with my hands, they accept it much better. Which sort of makes sense if you think about how being...
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    when to allow free ranging?

    So my 6 week old chicks are getting really nosy about going beyond their stall - the big girls have actually been less interested in roaming lately, and everyone is getting along inside. 4 of the youngsters are very interested in me - they want to sit on my lap or perch on my arm. The other 2...
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    Another hen/roo ID

    Handsome!!
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    Another hen/roo ID

    Rats. Well he will be given a chance to become a model citizen and if that doesn't happen, then freezer camp. Any idea why he and the other Wyandotte hang together? I got 6 chicks - these 2, 2 Barred Rock and 2 Buff Orpingtons. They areall just over 4 weeks. These 2 are far less...
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    Another hen/roo ID

    I am suspecting this little one is a boy - he has a red wattle and very different feathers than the other Wayndotte chick. She is in the background. Her tail is much fluffier -his is stubby and he's blacker.
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    Integration success - they get all the credit!

    I've read with interest all the threads about integrating your new chicks to the existing flock. I put my littles out into a section of the coop (a converted horse stall) where they can see/be seen by the "bigs" but can't interact. When I am tending to them, the littles have come out and...
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    MAMA Heating Pad....I'm getting cold feet!

    Mine are here and happy as well! They are in the house, in part because they are so cute I want to keep watching. They just seem too tiny to be outside - it was 25 last night. One of them, today, has decided she's too cool for school and has been hopping up on top of the pad and snuggling...
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    MAMA Heating Pad....I'm getting cold feet!

    Got it! I am using a cookie cooling rack to hold up the pad and will adjust when I see how big they are.
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    MAMA Heating Pad....I'm getting cold feet!

    I created a MHP setup in a box for the 6 chicks arriving tomorrow/Friday. They said they are hatching today, so they will be pretty tiny. In my 60-65 degree house, underneath the cave is only reaching 75/80 when the probe is on the floor of the box (paper + shavings). I bought the Sunbeam...
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    Adding to flock - adults or chicks?

    Ok! Chicks it is! I hope my remaining three girls live long and happy (and healthy) lives and wouldn't want to jeopardize them. Thank you - this board is a great resource.
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    Adding to flock - adults or chicks?

    Wondering if it is better/easier/less stressful to add adults to a flock or to get chicks. I acquired 5 hens of unknown ages about 18 months ago and this (VERY COLD) winter, 2 of them have died. The remaining 3 are happy, but have not laid since December, and I would like to have eggs...
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    Winter treatment of scaly legs

    Thank you for the advice! While the girls were not enthused by the treatment, it clearly has helped and their legs look significantly better.
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    Winter treatment of scaly legs

    Thank you - I was concerned that putting anything on their legs might affect how the legs cope with extreme cold weather (not sure how bird feet don't freeze but apparently it works). I will try the castor oil and treat all of them just in case some have started and just aren't showing any ill...
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    Winter treatment of scaly legs

    I tried to read the 70 page thread on treating leg mites, but did not find the answers to my specific questions so please bear with me. I have a small flock of 5 hens I got about 15 months ago - they were all laying adults of undetermined ages. 4 Red Stars and one Buff Orpington. One of...
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