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    How to Keep Chickens Cool in Upcoming Heat Wave?

    That is a gorgeous coop.
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    What do you do with cockerels that you can’t keep?

    Where are you?
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Okay, thank you. My husband has a coworker who may be able to take him too, I’m still checking. I’m not absolutely positive that we’re getting rid of him, I keep wavering on that. I mean if no one has complained yet maybe we’re safe?? And he really only crows during business hours...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Vancouver.
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Oh sorry, he’s from Wilco last year in March. Not sure which that is.
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    This little booger got a beat down when he tried to mate with one of our RIR’s in the rain. She’s been sick lately but starting to feel better, and since he’s so small he takes advantage of their lethargy. It used to be the other Red that would knock him around (for no reason, though! like out...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Any advice on how to make sure a Craigslist post is legit? There’s a place that says it’s a small rescue and they’re specifically looking for a Silkie rooster...i just worry. I’d hate to send him away to something awful, he’s such a sweet little bear.
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    What is the link for the auction thread? Of a thread for rehoming roosters...I have a black Silkie roo and a sneaking suspicion that our 4 week old Lavender Orpington is a roo also...😭
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    What are some uncommon breeds according to everyone else

    We didn’t know she would go broody until after we had taken her egg, so we put a new Pio egg under her a few days later since we’ve seen Georgie at least try to mate with Pio and her eggs are smaller than all the others. Princess’s eggs are wee things (truly perfect as bite sized hard boiled...
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    What are some uncommon breeds according to everyone else

    I have a white Frizzle named Princess Buttercup who is currently super broody But the most adorable chicken I’ve ever seen. She’s my favorite of the flock. We have a black Silkie that turned out to be a rooster, named Georgie. Otherwise the unique ones we have are: Margaret (Peg) the Lavender...
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    Help! chicken not coming out of nesting box

    Back to this...our Frizzle is doing all of these things described here. She stopped laying five days ago and just sits in the same nesting box. Some other hens want to use that box even though we have six others 🙄 so she occasionally gets kicked out, but goes right back in. We bring her out of...
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    Why did my water turn hard?

    D’haran!! Is that from the Modesitt books? Man, I need to get back into those...
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    Adopted neighborhood stray chicken

    Awww, she’s floofy and beautiful! I get what you mean about challenges, my husband was born and raised in Puerto Rico. Gorgeous but not easy to live there! I’d still take it any day over rainy, gray western NY where I grew up. When we got our chickens he named his Pio and said that was what...
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    Adopted neighborhood stray chicken

    You had me at “I live in Belize” Also, I feel you! I couldn’t leave a hen all alone over there either 😊
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    How to cull a rooster when you don't want too?

    Oh man, I wish you were closer! We’re in the Pacific Northwest. We have an accidental Silkie rooster (unsexed chick) that I don’t want to kill or get rid of for fear of someone else killing him. His name is Georgie and he’s a sweet little bear but we really aren’t allowed to have roosters so I’m...
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    Can a dog and chickens safely coexist in a small backyard?

    Our Chug was already here when we got the chickens and he’s been fine from day one. No interest in chasing them. We adopted a one year old Shepherd mix about a year ago and he wanted to chase them badly. He would chase, but once they stopped running for whatever reason (as we were trying to stop...
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    Rooster of the week!

    Our little Silkie who turned out to be a rooster, Georgie. The sweetest punkin who refuses to defend himself against a murderous older hen, who is now incarcerated indefinitely for her crimes. The collar reduces the volume of his crowing a bit, but not much else. It’s currently lost in the...
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    Old hen attacking new rooster, viciously

    He’s been very docile and sweet so far, and perhaps that will change. But the attacks occur without any mating attempt, as far as we have seen. He can just be standing there, feeding, preening, drinking water, doing anything really, and she will run at him and strike. I would understand better...
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    Old hen attacking new rooster, viciously

    No worries. :) He also has only very short feathers around his head, so there is nothing to trim. His cushion (Silkie version of a comb) is what she attacked and what was bleeding. And I fear he’s close to full grown, but Silkies are naturally smaller and docile. So he might just be doomed. I...
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    Old hen attacking new rooster, viciously

    My Frizzle turned out to be a hen, thankfully, and so far her head feathers are very short. But she’s still pretty young, maybe 20 weeks. The rooster is a Silkie and he has a cushion that kind of flops to one side, so his vision on his left side isn’t great, I would imagine.
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