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    Drake Behavior and Ducklings

    Ok thank you!
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    Drake Behavior and Ducklings

    I have 2 pekins, 1 drake and 1 hen that are about two years old. This year I incubated some of their eggs and kept 2 of the ducklings. I allowed them to free range with the older ducks from about 3 weeks on, they'd sleep in their coop with them and eat from the same bowl and seemed to get...
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    How long do I remove my other rooster for pure bloodlines?

    Oh wow! Ok thank you!
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    How long do I remove my other rooster for pure bloodlines?

    I am hatching from my flock and want to make sure my Rhode Island Red roosters are the ones fertilizing my girls. I have a chicken tractor I can put my other roosters into so they don't have access to the hens. How long do I need to remove them from the flock before collecting the eggs...
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    Should I lock down?

    I have 4 Pekin eggs in the incubator. All were looking good when I candled last Thursday. Planning to lock down Saturday, which will be day 25. Today two of the eggs are rocking! We are using a Brinsea Ovation EX with humidity control, so I feel pretty confident that the temp and humidity...
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    Ameraucana Crosses

    Surprisingly I don’t 🤔 He does have slate legs.
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    Ameraucana Crosses

    Thanks! That’s what I wanted to know. Assuming he is true Ameraucana. I understand if he’s not that the genes won’t line up the same way.
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    Ameraucana Crosses

    Even if he’s purebred? I thought ameraucana + white egger = blue
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    Ameraucana Crosses

    I have a black Ameraucana rooster. My hens are leghorn, RIR, and RIR/leghorn cross. Breeding my rooster with any of these hens should produce EEs, correct? A variety of blue/green eggs? I’m considering selling the chicks and want to make sure I have my info correct. Thanks! I believe he is a...
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    My rooster attacked me

    That makes perfect sense. Thank you for explaining it that way! I never thought of it like putting me in my place - I always thought he was protecting the flock. But you’re right, if he’s fine until I get too close to a hen, that’s not him feeling threatened by my presence, it’s threatening his...
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    My rooster attacked me

    Thank you all! The chicks I have right now are actually a different breed, do I’m not worried about a new rooster having his genes. Is there a balance between protecting the flock and not aggressions toward people? I mean, he was attacking me because he was trying to protect them. Isn’t that...
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    My rooster attacked me

    Thanks! That’s what I wanted to know.
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    My rooster attacked me

    I need some advice about my rooster. He’s always been aggressive towards my kids, so built a nice big run for my flock and I’m the only one that goes in, so I kept him to breed and protect the flock. We live very rurally and only ever lost a few chicks to predators once. I just added four...
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    One hen not laying

    Thank you!
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    One hen not laying

    I know they’ll lay without a rooster, but I thought maybe he wasn’t interested in breeding her if she’s not laying eggs. My pullets quit laying at all for six or eight weeks this winter. We live in PA and I didn’t have a light in the coop. I don’t think the leghorns are very cold hardy! I added...
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    One hen not laying

    I have eight white leghorn hens that I purchased as chicks last spring. I usually collected 8 eggs every day until this winter when they all stopped laying. When they began laying again this spring, I only ever collect 6-7. I figured one was hiding her eggs (free range), or we just weren’t in...
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