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  1. CamJa

    Pecking new chicks

    Our chickens are pets. Our flock was decimated in December by coyotes with the rooster and one hen surviving. A friend gave us 2 of her chickens (who were not pets),1 of which picks the other's feathers out. I put the one being picked on in with our 6 week old chicks and she immediately started...
  2. Letting Your Broody Hen Hatch Her Eggs

    Letting Your Broody Hen Hatch Her Eggs

    I’ll never forget waking up on an early October morning to hear the undeniable sound of new life unbound—PEEP PEEP PEEP! I was shaking like a leaf with excitement. Our Easter Egger hen Lucille 2 (from the show Arrested Development, also we already had a Lucille, so it was perfect!) had turned...
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  3. kianoosh

    Adding new birds to an existing (mean!) flock

    I have two adult chickens, 11 month old, lovely, playful, excellent layers, and I have two 2.5 month olds. Raised all of them from 1 day olds. No rooster. To get them introduced, I had the two young ones live next to the two older ones but separated by chicken wire, since they were 1 month old...
  4. EggMan207

    Does anyone feed meat birds grain?

    I know typically you want the high protein count, but does anyone feed grains to the meat birds? How does it change the taste and texture of the meat, if at all? What grains would you recommend?
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    • Forum: Feeding & Watering Your Flock
  5. D

    Mean girls!

    I have 4, 4 month old girls that I have had since they were chicks. I inherited a 3.5 month old Ameraucana 2 weeks ago. The initial integration was a disaster. My original 4 attacked the new girl and I ended up having to separate them. I split the new girl and 2 of my more docile girls for a...
  6. citychknraising

    What to do with outcast chicken?

    I have a blue cochin that, despite being timid and sweet, gets beat up CONSTANTLY by 2 other hens in the flock (I only have a flock of 5, one of the other hens is a chick that the cochin hatched). I separated her and the chick (who was an egg when I separated them) to save her from getting beat...
  7. Steph S.

    Reintroducing a Chicken to the flock

    I am having an extremely hard time reintroducing a Golden Comet to my flock of 8. Here is my story: In the spring I noticed my golden comet "Peep Junior" was getting picked on by the rest of the flock. One day she had a bloody comb and an injured food and was hiding in the corner of my coop...
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