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This weather will be fine for them even at night at 5 plus months old and if you can let them out into the yard for a few hours a day they will love ya for it.

Our Healer "Ginger" was very nervous at first around the hens, perhaps she didn't trust herself because one day years back she killed one. Swatted her a few times with the still flapping dead hen and she has never killed another and now guards them intensely even chasing sparrows and rabbits that get near them.

Then a year or so ago she got into the brooder and killed 15 chicks.... We almost NEVER do anything but voice commands for anything she does wrong so when she got screamed at and clobbered with a few dead chicks she again will not so much as look at them now, but we still will not leave her alone with the chicks when we are brooding as I think the peeping sounds like sparrows to her and they drive her nuts anyway diving at her from the trees actually teasing her as she jumps up snapping at them. Every now and then one gets too close and she nabs it.....

So with Ginger pullets to full grown hens are OK, but we never allow her near chicks unless we are very close.
 
Well, sounds like a lot of other folks are having a slowdown in egg production, too! Thanks for those who posted.

I bought some goodies last night, I'm going to give them the special treat that I make for them. Rice, mashed sweet potatoes, plain yogurt, and raw unsalted sunflower seeds. I mix it all together in a big batch, and sometimes I dilute it with chick grow mixed in there, too. They eat every bite, and a lot of times have a sudden burst of egg-laying right after. LOL!

I have a bunch of pullets that are on the verge of laying but haven't started just yet. Hatching was from mid May to mid June last year.
 
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Hi! I just wanted to introduce myself! I live about an hour from Phoenix, an hour from Tucson. I'll be getting chicks here mid-December for the first time ever. I'm super excited!

Just wanted to say hi!
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welcome to our group what kind of chicks
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Barred Rocks and Freedom Rangers. The Rangers are just to start...I plan on getting White Rocks for meat in the Spring.
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I just want to do the Freedom Rangers because they seem easy - I wasn't going to do meat at all until Spring, but I figured why not, if they grow so easily!

In the Spring I'll also be getting turkeys, too! Then pigs and cows for my dang bull that desperately needs a girlfriend.
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welcome to all the new people!

Gallopingfrog: your animals are great. I loved all the rescue stories. What lucky animals!

Thanks for all the compliments on my little baby boy! I think he's quite handsome myself!
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I'm off to find a different vehicle, I have a family of 7 now and need more space. Anyone have a Suburban they want to sell?
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