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Thank you again Alex. We are going to cull out all the old birds, they have stopped laying almost completely for quite awhile and they are all healthy

Any advice on how old chicks should be before turned loose to roam in the chicken pen ? Going to get rid of the older ones first .

The black Australorp chicks we have are getting big at just a little over 4 weeks old. How old would they need to be put out in the chicken pen would you say? Have them in a smaller area now to keep them warm at night but they are about to out grow it. Live near the northern Kentucky border

Thanks for the tip Alex...

Had planned to make fryers of 3 roosters but may just make all 4 of them fryers.

Okay , thanks. We have 20 4 week old australorps chicks. 16 are hens, 4 roosters. We had them several years ago and they got old and had to cull them out. Great egg producers. Had one big rooster with 14 hens, got a dozen eggs many days ,butvhad periods with only a few a day.

I have a general question. Some of the old timers when I was young always said you need a rooster around to help keep hens laying more consistently, any opinions?