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    Minifarm in Mississippi

    Welcome to BYC.
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    Plymouth Rock pullets nesting box dramas.

    I have barred rocks. At 21 weeks, depending on season (light levels), you are somewhere between any day now and a month from your first egg. The coop is their bedroom. You gave them a beautiful lounge and dining room, so the only reason they will use the coop is to sleep or lay.
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    Hen doing the wingdance to a cockerel

    I have four hens. My flock dynamic is eerily similar to the TV "Golden girls" from decades ago. I think Betty White would be thrilled to see my Goofy, reprising her role as Rose.
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    CLEAN Jokes, Memes, and Pictures!

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    The nighly roost rumble

    My rooster currently sets himself up between the two three month old chicks and the adult hens, to keep them from getting bullied off the roost.
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    Hen laying eggs at night.

    Been laying about five months I think. Mostly in the nest, a few anywhere in the run or straight off the roost. Shells are really strong, so usually are just fine. This one seems to have landed smack on the edge of the ramp, which has a frame made of angle iron though.
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    Hen laying eggs at night.

    Goofy is just over a year old. Shells are near bulletproof. Not resistant to falling perfectly on angle iron frame of the ramp though.
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    Hen laying eggs at night.

    Right now I heard a kerfuffle out in the run. 22:32 to be exact. 2 hours and 15 minutes after sunset. Pitch dark out. Lights on, grabbed flashlight and went to investigate. Found a broken egg (laid by Goofy on the roost). What is making her lay on the roost at night and how can I stop her from...
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    "Big Chicken"

    Oh, those boys have a chickenality already. Only hope there is showbiz or raising a family on the old homestead. I hope you find a great place for them.
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    How to reduce unwanted behavior?

    Whole flock? Yes, a great disturbance in the force has happened. I know this, not because I am a character in a movie, but have had the same thing happen. Number one, they need more food. Not all in the same place, spread out so the mean girl can't be everywhere at once chasing everyone away...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Still have half the girls sleeping with their chicks and using the soup ladle to reach in and gather the harvest. One today. I so wish the hens would not insist on laying in the broody nests. :he
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    "Big Chicken"

    Use my solution with a twist. I went to Claudio (my butcher) and told him that my hens gave me six chicks and then another nine on top of that two months after. Out of space and he can have the roos for free. Done deal. All my black star roos will go off there and be raised by him. I plan to net...
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    Chicken not following the others

    Goofy is my special case. Lovely docile nature, but clearly not the sharpest beak on the roost.
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    Chicken not following the others

    A guiding hand at her age should work. Once they get the idea, they are usually fine. Rather than picking her up and putting her straight in the coop, it might help to pick her up and sort of "float" her up the ramp. Like when you are holding a toddlers hands to steady them when they learn to...
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    Aerodynamic eggs.

    Too late on that score I'm afraid. If my luck holds out and these are pullets, I may have more torpedoes to look forward to. :wee https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/what-gender-are-these.1683639/
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    Aerodynamic eggs.

    Goofy is the flock oddball. In both chickenality and general behavior. She typically lays her eggs in a nest, but occasionally will leave one somewhere in the run or toss bomb them into the run, from up on the roost. One of her oddities, is variation of eggs shapes. Usually they seem pretty...
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    What gender are these?

    Apologies for pic quality, they don't stop moving very often. I have two little ones that will be three months old next week. They look pretty much identical to one another, The father is a black Orpington (in my avatar pic). I think the mother is too. Are they cockerels or pullets?
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    Why is my 4 yr old cream legbar (formerly a blue egg layer) now laying green eggs???!!!

    That and she may have read a bit from Dr Seuss during winter. Probably a good idea to check on the ham in the larder. :idunno
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    rooster trophy's

    As a kid, my roo stuck three other roos into the taxi going over the rainbow bridge. Never saw anything about tail feathers happen.
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    Pullet Pulled Dog's Tail!

    Probably just curiosity.
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