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  1. Delmar

    How long will it take a rooster to do the job?

    I am keeping 6 hens for a friend for a couple of weeks.I am thinking about putting a rooster with them for a while so I can hatch some chicks while the girls are in my care. My friend is fine with this. If I introduce an experienced roo to the girls how long should it take before I can count on...
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    I'm back

    After losing our dog a few years ago we had a horrible a horible preditor problem and gave up. This week an old buddy of mine that I had given a few hens to asked if we could keep his hens for a few weeks due to a family emergency. I tok the day of today and reasembled the old chicken tractor...
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    Free chicken protecting dog in Northern Indiana

    I have a 5 year old black lab springer spaniel mix that is a wonderful chicken protector. He has co existed with my free range chickens for a couple of years now, and though he spends most of his time indoors in that two years we have lost only two chickens to predators. One to a hawk and one to...
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    My broody gave up a day early!

    My broody has been on the eggs every time I have checked and I expected that tomorrow would be the day. Instead I came home today and she was off the eggs and they were sort of buried in the dirt and they were cold! I busted the eggs open and they seemed to be well on their way and none of them...
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    My dog won't eat my chickens!

    I have been known to brag about the fact that my Black Lab Ziggy is such a good protector of the flock. I didn't really have to train him. I just said no when he made any aggressive moves toward my birds and he caught on to the idea that the chickens are under his protection. One of the last...
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    Going broody in the winter

    I have a hen who is trying to go broody right now in an outside nest. If I built a shelter around her and kept her in feed and water is there a downside to having chicks hatch outside in December? Will she keep them warm enough, assuming she is a good mom?
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    Is it fair to call them free range?

    At night my birds stay in a fenced area about the size of a small city back yard, but during the day most of them go over the fence and make use of the rest of property. My wife's friend has chickens too, that are always in a chicken run. She told my wife we don't dare to advertise the eggs as...
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    Who layed the little blue egg?

    I have five adult chickens only one of which lays blue eggs. She went broody and had a hatch 4 weeks ago. I also have a group of girls that are 21 weeks old some of which should be EE. Yesterday I got a little blue egg. About 2/3 the size that my EE was laying before she stopped. So the...
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    Pullet or roo

    Is this bird a pullet or a roo? I am leaning toward roo because I think his tail feathers are looking rooish. Plus every other bird I have had with that basic color pattern has been a roo. The thing that make me wonder are, The legs are thinner than all of the other roos that age, and if this is...
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    Ever heard of "Beggar’s Chicken"?

    Here is the story from the website that tells about it. http://redcook.net/2009/07/08/chicken-clay-grill/ "A starving beggar in China during the Qing dynasty is said to have stolen a chicken and was hotly pursued by its owner. In his haste he buried the chicken in mud near a riverbank to hide...
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    cliping wing feathers

    Would clipping wing feathers keep my birds (at least most of them)inside a 4' fence?
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    Egg laying aftr broody?

    Now that my broody has hatched her eggs, how long will it take to get back to business laying?
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    Black sex link from a EE mix?

    I just had 6 barred rock eggs hatch this AM. The dad is an EE mix that is mostly red. Two of the chicks have a Yellowish dot on the head and four have the white under the chin and chest. I think these are black sex links. Am I right?
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    How long do I need to keep the broody and her new chicks separate?

    All my birds have been free ranging for the last month or so. All five adult girls still lay all their eggs in the one nesting box. It's just an upside down plastic tub with a door cut out. The last 2 evenings the EE was not giving up the eggs to my wife. Sunday night I took them out anyway and...
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    Can different age chickens free range together.

    I have a group of adult chickens and a group of chickens that are 8 weeks old. Currently I keep them in two different tractors and free range them in shifts. I am aware that I can't house them together, but I was wondering if the adult birds would leave the young ones alone while they are free...
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    Losing a kidney

    I found out yesterday that have a tumor in my left kidney and the kidney will need to be removed. The good news is my other kidney seems to be doing OK. My Dr is scheduling a chest Xray blood work and some other test to see if has spread to other parts of the body. I hope to know more early next...
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    Birds that won't go to bed / How long till the new home is home?

    My first batch of chicks is 4 weeks old. I moved them from the brooder a week ago to a small tractor that seemed big enough at the time but they grew like weeds this week! I swear one morning that they were bigger when I got off work, than they were when I left in the morning. So I got a bigger...
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    Do I have twins?

    I was candling my eggs a few days ago and one of them didn't appear to be as far along as the rest. Veins not as dark, that kind of thing. Two days later I noticed that instead of one dark spot that the veins centered around, there are two dark spots. Does this mean I have twins developing? If...
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    raising layers to sell?

    Is there money to be made by raising layers to sell? I would seem to me, that to make any money you would have to raise them in the spring and summer, so that feed costs are lower, and have them ready to start laying in the fall. Is there a good market for girls that are ready to go, heading...
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    If you have enough chicks do you need a heat lamp?

    I was thinking that since they are able to ship day old chicks by putting enough of them in there, it should be possible to safely brood chicks without a heat lamp if you have more than a dozen or so. Am I wrong?
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