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  1. z3lda3

    Questions about coop and run for separate MINI flock with rooster

    Sigh oh the issues in chicken world are never ending..apparently. I’ve got a flock of 27 hens with 2 roosters. They have a large coop, yard and run. (They also free range in the evening). Then I’ve got a bachelor flock of 4 roosters, coop yard, run and they too free range (at different times...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    It’s definitely a good reason. I just can’t do pants when I’m hot. I’m miserable either way..bring on the cold weather!!
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Oh yeah we’ve got ALL those disease carriers as well. I’m in the country surrounded by woods so they are definitely prevalent. My husbands like “why don’t you just wear pants?” Uh because I don’t want to sweat to death!
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    No skeeters where you are??? You live in the arctic? I’d move to the arctic, no snakes either lol
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Wow it took me minute to see it lol. Aww that’s awesome of you to save those little guys.
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    Dealing with a 1 year old rooster

    4-h for sure. They almost always have roosters they need to rehome. I’ve had really good luck (so far) raising a cockerel with the flock. My hens tend to school them really well. Of course it helps that with one exception, my roosters are bantams and most of my hens are standards.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Aww it’s a baby? I’ve only seen bigger ones. What do you do with them?
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Awwww I love the little first eggs. My little pullet laid her first today. She’s about 18 weeks. Her mother is a white bantam Cochin, and daddy is a HUGE Wyandotte. Her egg was small and cream colored, just like her mother’s. I would’ve thought it was Morticias (her mother) but she’s broody-AGAIN.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I don’t know what haying season is, but from May to October I wear nothing but shorts and no show socks or barefoot. They definitely hitchhike a ride into my house on the husband. They’re horrible disease carrying terrors. And I recently found out they’re ARACHNIDS AHHHH!!!! Spiders! Blood...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Thanks!! I’ll try it, I have plenty of essential oil.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I googled mafia plant…I got nothing, except a restaurant called the mafia lol. And I’m not judging..I’m just saying I’d be a bit apprehensive eating there. 😆
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    They’ll blend right in lol. I’ll have to pass them off as mutant chickens to my husband. “Are those new animals?!?” Me- “nope. The new chicks must’ve mutated. Must be the heat 🤷‍♀️.”
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Apparently so! I only have chickens, but I wonder if guinea fowl would help..
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I’m only laughing because it’s true. My legs are eat up. Last year I got into poison ivy and itched/scratched like a crazy person. This year mosquitoes! I’ve tried everything. Bug spray, a bucket of water with “poisoned”mosquito food, I’m pretty sure they just use that to breed. It’s been over...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    “Feed the mosquitoes” lol. Aren’t they TERRIBLE this year?!
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    Dealing with a 1 year old rooster

    I know it difficult. I couldn’t cull a perfectly fine rooster, concerning health. I’ve got 7 roosters total. Two are in the flock. Actually 3 are in the flock but my latest one is a Cochin bantam he’s 10 weeks old, and so far the hens are doing a great job schooling him. (I’ll see how that...
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    Dealing with a 1 year old rooster

    I’ll add my 2 cents. Do you need a rooster..I’m not sure. Do you need a “bad” rooster? No! I’ve got 30 hens and they have two wonderful roosters. The boys are great to the hens and my family and I. They keep hen bickering down, and my primary has shown my pullets where to lay. Neither rooster...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I’ve never processed a chicken before. Is 7 lbs a good weight? I’m thinking..the turkey I buy for the holidays are 18 ish pounds..so 7lbs for a chicken..wait my biggest rooster is 12 lbs so 7 lbs is…wait my smallest bird is 1.5 lbs..ok it’s obvious I have no idea. Is 7lbs a good weight?
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    I'm guessing I have a bad roo

    Throat? With roosters anything is possible, but I don’t understand how the rooster would manage to slit a hens throat while mating. (Or trying to).
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I feel you! Our heat index is 112! Last week we also got rain but all that did was make it soo humid. I’m over this summer thing!
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