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At that age you should keep them in the coop , locked in if possible, so they know they are in their forever home. That also depends on if you have bigun’s in with them. When we put our RI Blues in the big coop last weekend they stayed in the coop all day as the big girls walked in and out, and...

We have some twerps from the last clutch of 26 that still aren’t roosting at 4+months. They stand on top of the nesting boxes or on the ground while the big girls are roosting on the bars. We’ve gone into the coop at night and picked them up to put them on the roosting bars where they stay until...

Our turkeys are very protective of any chicks we put in the yard. We have 3 grown Toms ,a teen Tom , and a female tween. They are all watchful of the pullets we have and will puff up and circle us when we are handling the chicks. Our bantams will stand under the Tom’s when the bigger hens pick...

We went out with about 2 dozen scrambled eggs, and shells crunched up. Of course the Donks gotta see if it’s something they want.

We have two hens in a store coop in the barn that went broody, so we closed the gate to separate them from the others. Now they are wallowing in filth of broken eggs and poop as they will not leave the nest and get almost violent along with the screeching if we try to look under.

Thank you, they are not BYC related and I am using my iPhone most of the time to use the app.

When trying to post sometimes these videos will pop up full screen. Even when I close it out and try to start typing again, they pop back open

It’s a mix called Rhode Island Blue can’t remember what it mixed with. This is them just under a week old.

Just seems small at that age, IMO, as even at 7 weeks or so, which is my preference on integrating, they get chased or bullied by many of the older hens. Maybe my hens are just mean until the twerps can fight back. We’ve got 6 RI blues that are about 6 weeks and have been in look don’t touch for...

We have 2 gal buckets in each coop and 2 -15 gal tubs in the barn. The 2 gal buckets are topped off 1-2 times a day as needed and cleaned / dumped and rinsed every weekend. The tubs are good for 2 weeks before they get grungy looking and need dumped and scrubbed out. We will drop the hose on low...

Those are some pretty birds

Sorry for your loss.😫 We integrated 25 of mixed breeds a few months ago and still have some older hens bullying the tweens. We’ve also had some older hens abandon the coop after we put the tweens in with them. They refuse to be put back in, and have run out in the dark to go to a different coop...

We’ve posted a while back about our bantam going broody, she’s dedicated to brooding but wasn’t staying on the same eggs ( she was swapping nest boxes). Went out and found another hen pecking the older eggs and had killed the half formed chicks. Our plan was to move Crowella to a store coop , so...

Was thinking of the misting outside the coop, so as not to make a sauna, although, you are right, light rain on a hot day only makes it worse. We do use an additive to the water for electrolytes and vitamins.

We are in Central Florida and the temps have been up into the 90’s with heat index of over 100*. The girls , in the past few years, have always found shade spots on the side of coops, in coops, behind barn , or under the shed and we have lost a couple to the heat. We have industrial fans set up...