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    Buthering First "Rooster"

    Thank you so much!!! I have read a few of these, but it def gives me plenty to look up and figure out what works best for me. <3 I should have realized the meat bird section would have something.
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    Buthering First "Rooster"

    Yeah, tbh after some research and asking around, I'm thinking about using the cone method... I plan on using the meat for soup/stalk, and it just makes more sense to me (so less marign of error and waste). But I have a lady nearby whose done meat chickens for years coming in a few weeks to help...
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    Buthering First "Rooster"

    I'm not sure if this is where this goes, but I have an intersex bird (displaying more rooster as it has underdeveloped ovaries), that has gotten quite aggressive. I have told everyone that I'm not going to deal with mean birds, and that I was just going to cull them. So here we are for me to put...
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    How cold is too cold for my chickens?

    For the most part I think it depends your chickens. The guy who used to keep chickens here, had some very generic chicken from mexico.. they did not like anything below freezing (32). They litterally would huddle so close they would suffocate each other, so he had to use heaters just to prevent...
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    23 week old chickens havent laid first egg, should I be concerned?

    Oh that is interesting! ahahaha, I guess birds of a feather flock together! LOL. ❤️
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    23 week old chickens havent laid first egg, should I be concerned?

    Thanks! I will try these today! I can get some fake eggs, as I was going to get some nesting pads. Hoping to make the coop seem more appealing. Though, that is brilliant idea to distrupt the current spot (because yeah it is very consistant lol) if she doesn't just naturally move after the...
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    Post Your First Egg Pics-Part 2

    found about 7 eggs a few days before thanksgiving! <3 Wasn't expecting it during this cold front, but very happy to have fresh deviled eggs.
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    23 week old chickens havent laid first egg, should I be concerned?

    Well we are laying now! LOL. Not long after this post, right before thanksgiving and life got busy, the girls started popping em out like crazy. About one a day for most of the girls, and for the other girl it has been every other day. So we have had plenty of fresh deviled eggs and egg noodles...
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    23 week old chickens havent laid first egg, should I be concerned?

    Thank you! This helps ease my anxieties that one of them is hidding htem somewhere.
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    23 week old chickens havent laid first egg, should I be concerned?

    I have switched them almost 4 weeks ago to an all flock feed (1 rooster and one intersex 4 hens), and gave them access to the oyster shells about 5 weeks ago, but still haven't seen any eggs. I'm not sure if it is because it is cold up here, and we are on the shady side of the mountain, so he...
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    Guess Chicks Gender and Breed (Just For Fun)

    This is the last update I'm going ot make on this thread, just because the mystery was solved. LOL. Iva Jean is intersex, and infertile (we believe). My vet finally sent a blood sample for a more comphrensive test, and it came back as XXY. Then we did a sonogram to see what was going on inside...
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    Topic of the Week - Aggressive Roosters: What is the best way to handle them?

    This is what I have always learned to do too LOL. Luckily all mine are not assholes (yet they are 4 months). I have one that you can see thinks about it if I get low enough (like squatting), but when I give him a "don't f with me" look, he decides it isn't worth it. I make jokes he better...
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    Need some advice for a sloped run/coop

    Hmmmm... I've seen a lot of this kinda stuff like the picture below. Maybe if you wedged something of this kinda skirt idea between the bottom wood and another piece it might make it a tighter seal at the bottom.
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    Opal legbar rooster?

    This does make sense. I guess I didn't realize they were $68 through meyer hatchery... LOL. I got mine as a "meal maker" hen from them a few months ago.
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    Opal legbar rooster?

    That does make sense that they would have to be easily sexed really young to know... because I am assuming it would be about 50/50 every hatch for males/females that it would almost be impossible to not accidently sell roosters if they couldn't easily sex them at a day old. And yeah, I just...
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    Opal legbar rooster?

    wait... they have some breeds they don't sell roosters of?! How does that work? Do they keep all the roosters, do they sex them, do they just not produce males? Do they have sex traits to identify them more accurately young? ... I feel this just made me have so many questions! To me it looks...
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    Advice on Automated Coop and Run Design

    OHHH and here is pictures of the offending "hen" 😂 ... (I still can't imagine it's 100% hen by any means). I only got it tested because when it was younger felt so much more "mixed" in traits, and I just wanted to know.... but I was still more expecting it to come back rooster. 😂
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    Advice on Automated Coop and Run Design

    OH THANK YOU!!! these all seem a lot easier than the type I was going to build. These would be perfect though! Especially cause I only have 7 chickens rn, they really aren't going to need as much space as I keep thinking. Plus these would be a lot easier cause they are more things "on hand". I...
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    Guess Chicks Gender and Breed (Just For Fun)

    So I'm going to mix up the order a little (cause I want to put Iva/Ivan up first). This is the one that is DNA testing as a hen, but you would NEVER believe me if you looked at her 😭 She's even got the metalic green color to some curled saddle feathers.... (stock picture to demonstrate below...
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    How did your flock annoy you today?

    tbh I'm not exactly sure. DNA tested as a hen, but it's go soooo many signs of being rooster? LOL. So basically I just assume its intersex, and still have a few weeks before if I know if it will pop out eggs or not 😂
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