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    Alpha Rooster is dead, flock is acting ODD!

    This is how rooster pecking orders are in the animal world. I have over 35 years experience with farm birds. They stop threatening and attacking humans and never ever have problems with them after a week or two. I do not harm them. It is asserting your dominance over them and showing were...
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    Alpha Rooster is dead, flock is acting ODD!

    Waving your arms is only a temporary solution and could wind up making him worse once he figures it out. The more you scare or challenge them, which is what you are doing, they will become three times worse pretty soon. You have to immediately catch them and holding their back down with one...
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    Comment by 'TxMesteth' in article 'Interesting Facts About Chicken Eggs'

    It can take 7-10 days for an egg to become fertile after mating with a hen to begin with. I have known people to get rid of their roosters and have found hidden nests with what they thought were missing hens sitting on them, with no other neighbors having chickens for miles away. The hen would...
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    Comment by 'TxMesteth' in article 'Interesting Facts About Chicken Eggs'

    Yes, to be absolutely sure you are getting full breed birds, 6 weeks are advised.
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    Please Criticize My Coop In Progress

    To keep snakes, rats, opossums, raccoons, weasels, dogs, cats, foxes, bobcats, mountain lions, hawks, and owls, which multiple of these animals exist over every part of the US, you have to have either 1/2” X 1/2”, or 1/4” X 1/4” hardware cloth lining the entire coop and run including the roof...
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    Devastated! Warning Graphical

    From roof to floor needs to be lined with the hardware cloth including the inside of wood coop walls. Then wire needs to be buried two feet in the ground around the entire run and coop. You can use no climb horse fencing or barb wire for this. This is the only way to make a predator proof...
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    Broody Silkie, and We Don't Want Chicks...

    All you have to do to break a broody hen cycle is put a small freezer bag of ice under her in the box. No need to remove them from the coop or from the other birds. Just replace the ice as needed, but mine have never stayed long enough on it to have to replace the ice. Just watch and make...
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    What breed of chicken is this?

    Looks just like my black australorp hen.
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