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  1. Mischief

    Chicken Psychology 101: Solo Chickens?

    What a beautiful hen! Love that color. I hope integration goes to plan and everyone settles in comfortably by/in fall! Something sort of similar happened with our/my mother's most recent batch, the one I think I mentioned in the OP. We had 3, and after about a decade one of them died (we...
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    Chicken Psychology 101: Solo Chickens?

    Over the past year, I've been doing a lot of reading. There doesn't seem to be much research put forward into solo chickens raised from hatching and their longevity, general health, temperament differences or happiness in comparison to chickens raised in flocks. I just can't help but still...
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    Chicken Psychology 101: Solo Chickens?

    Yes, I suppose animals should be thought of in many cases as lesser than children- mostly, I was speaking from an emotional, empathetic standpoint in that comparison. Practically, however, animals are not like children at all. I'm not sure this approach is going to change my mind. Animals...
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    Chicken Psychology 101: Solo Chickens?

    Thank you very much for your input! And I absolutely agree with you, as I've read countless accounts of chicks doing better when allowed outside. I believe the exercise and sunlight are vital during their development cycles for optimum health later in life. Vitamins obtainable only from sunlight...
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    Chicken Psychology 101: Solo Chickens?

    I do think I've made it pretty clear that if it becomes irrefutably apparent that it is, indeed, inhumane to keep a chicken in such a way that I won't do it. There seem to be arguments and evidences for both sides available, and I'm weighing all of them as such. Solo chickens are rarer, but...
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    Chicken Psychology 101: Solo Chickens?

    Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts and experience! I appreciate it! Unfortunately, I'm not sure if I have that much linoleum at a stretch to provide to an inside chicken for such a setup! I had the idea of mostly free-ranging until bedtime, at which point the chicken would go into its...
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    Chicken Psychology 101: Solo Chickens?

    I did miss it! Whoops! I see, but I'm curious about how they were kept inside. Were they kept in a box only? I know the idea of house chickens often bring to mind really sad ideas of chickens kept in cages for copious amounts of time, but that's not how chickens biologically are built to...
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    Chicken Psychology 101: Solo Chickens?

    I don't like rodents, really. I just don't inherently click with their behaviors like I do with birds. When you say the quality of indoor life is crappy, why is it so? Can a routine and setup not be managed in a healthy ideal way, at all? I had honed in on seramas and bantam also because I'd...
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    Chicken Psychology 101: Solo Chickens?

    Thank you for your help! I do have a couple of questions about your house chickens. About your house chickens, were they brought inside after having been outside first? How large were they/what breed were they? And, were they hatched with other chickens, and used to living with them already...
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    Chicken Psychology 101: Solo Chickens?

    Finally, I'm posting my first topic! It's kind of a weird question, too, and I wasn't sure where to put it. I'm sorry if this is the wrong place! I'll delete it and move to the proper section if it is! Anyway, on to the meat of the matter- I know chickens are flock animals, and I've read...
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    A slightly late hello!

    Thank you everyone so much! This is such a friendly community. I'm trying to figure out where to post my first topic right now, which I think would be kind of a general outline of what I want to do and might cover a few different subjects... I was thinking maybe "Managing Your Flock" might be...
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    Unusually Large Egg - Surprise! 1 in 25 million!

    When I saw the topic title, and then the picture, I thought about a goose or duck sneaking in to just lay one egg amongst your hens' eggs and then mysteriously disappearing into the night. Similar odds maybe? lol! A triple yolker though, wow! Super cool. :clap
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    A slightly late hello!

    I actually created my account yesterday, then got completely distracted reading other threads and articles before I made it through creating an introduction topic! Whoops! I do that a lot. Better late than never, though! To keep myself from rambling too much, I'll stick to the suggested...
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