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    Stinky Acres Farm

    Stunning photos, love them!! Such characters :D
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I really was answering all the assumptions, not specifically to you <3 I think SOME hens like him, and some do NOT. After reading this all this morning and realizing a few things, and discussing with my husband who listens to all my chicken worries, we just don't want to make any rash...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Just read that response after I posted!! Okay, so yeah -- that is good to know. The hens that have feather loss DO in fact, steer clear of him and do not 'hang' with him. The food thing?? I free range all day long and they forage, it is hard to say -- but when I toss treats or bring treats...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Everyone is assuming (naturally, I guess) that Chuck is HUGE. He is actually smaller than the hens he's causing feather loss on. I picked him because he was small and tidy. He's an Easter Egger, and the size of a regular hen. He is smaller than Blanche, the Buff Orpington who is so slow she...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    He's been mating for over a year, so I don't think so, no. Just saw Cracker get on Blanche (he is 18 weeks old) and he only touched once, too I think Chuck is too extreme potentially
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    He is almost 18 months old -- which I know is the "setting" age for behavior. When mating, he does 3 touches. Oscar only does 1. Maybe the boy is just taking too long up there, and hence, the feather destruction. EVERY girl almost always fluffs/accepts. They DO like these boys and hang...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Listening to all this talk lately of great Roosters, I am beginning to suspect my Chuck is just an average Rooster and isn't fantastic, but nor is he terrible. I have literally a dozen Cockerels coming up behind him, zero of them are aggressive so far - but whose to say? Oscar chases the...
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    GINGER IS TRYING TO GO BROODY AGAIN I cannot! I'm just gonna let her sit on fake eggs, as soon as Tilly's eggs hatch, she will abandon those and try and help Tilly lolol 3 eggs were deposited with Tilly today -- WHEN do they do it? She's almost never off the nest lol I think Tilly tells...
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    Windy hill chickens - first flock(s) of my own

    omg the faces on these chickens are just SO CUTE AHHHHH :love :love
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    lemme dig up the books - it's been awhile and they could have sourced new DNA - iirc, it was a team from Oxford that spearheaded DNA geneaology from matrilineal DNA. This was years ago. Found it; Saxons, Vikings and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain, Ireland and America by Brian Sykes His...
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    Wrath's Marans

    Oh those are *stunning*
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    fascinatingly, there is almost zero roman DNA amongst people in the british isles - because they did *not mix* with the peasants at all.
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    Y'all these cockerels/rooster. Chuck is feeling so insecure some evenings. Oscar is trying to chase everyone. Cream WENT AT CHUCK full attack mode, but Chuck was busy flying up to the fence, and was oblivious to it LOL the 10 week olds are crowing every morning like WHAT even Cracker and...
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    fuzzi's Chicken Journal

    Fuzzi this was such a great idea - I have steps up to the nipple waterers but this doesn't help <1 week olds who can't use the horizontal nipples yet. Was gonna buy a canary waterer this go around with Tilly's second brood and see how that goes... but I'm gonna be using your idea and put a step...
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    Wing It Ranch

    Ehhh, I wouldn't 'break' broodiness, I think it's a horrible way to treat a chicken in my own opinion, personally. Go with your gut! I live in NC too so have the same heat index -- it's even WORSE inside the hen house by 2-3 degrees, I have fans going though so air movement helps. I have 2...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I don't know if this was a joke or not? Anyway, no. edit; I see quite a few people have already said as much. There has been quite a lot of work done on genetics in the British Isles. Loads of books by scientists with loads of documentation to back up their findings. I've read a few of...
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    Yeah tbh, I love the look of just a bunch of various bits and bobs. We have "official" nest boxes and then, repurposed crates, nightstands, etc
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    I don't anticipate her being ready to deal with chicks -- I could be wrong, but when this girl is off the nest she's running around batshit crazy LOL She kinda IS crazy, typically - and FAST and... zany af. I just don't see her behavior as being calm enough to let slower baby chicks catch...
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    I wasn't gonna waste a perfectly good broody -- I didn't have to do a SINGLE thing for her chicks, they all survived, they all thrived - and are 9 weeks old and lovelllyyyy so, I figured, why not get some more actual Ameraucanas lol
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    The lady gave me 1 each extra, LAWD so 4 lavender 4 chocolate (mottled, possibly) Ameraucanas under Tilly. She was DELIGHTED to receive them. Last time Tilly managed 8/8 but these might not have the same coverage Chuck manages :lau We will see in 3 weeks!
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