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    6 weeks old cockerels fighting to the death already?

    Not at all! Actually I wanted to keep the aggressive one to replace his father because he already has some stunning colors and was interested in a easter egger male of that particular crossing, but holy cow, he's already such a beast I might keep a dual purpose instead. He dominates the dual...
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    6 weeks old cockerels fighting to the death already?

    I hatched 6 cockerels on my last batch. My plan was to invite them to dinner at 3 months old. They are 2 bantams and 4 dual purpose. The 2 bantams decided to fight to the death today, which I didn't even realize because the fight was completely silent and they were fighting under some large...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I've spend most of the day looking for that source (it had a very nice tab) but I can't find it to save my life. I found this one which isn't exactly the same thing, and the results are not as dramatic as the one I saw (they used insignificant commercial yoghurt to ferment the thing), it also...
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    Help! What do I feed my mixed flock??!

    What you are planning to do sounds perfect to me, I have nothing else to add.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I just wanted to let everyone know that the last part about vitamin C and kefir is not correct. There is no significant variation in Vit. C content. Instead there are variations in vitamin B complex content and certain amino acids like methionine. But that refers to kefir milk specifically...
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    Broody trying to kill babies!!

    It's not the hen's fault. Next time leave her alone and let her hatch some fertile eggs. Messing around with a broody hen is never a good idea. She'll be a great mom if you just let her do her job without interfering.
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    Do you add stuff into your commercially available food?

    If you have the setup for it, you could try to buy or harvest wild chicory seeds and plant them in the pasture. I basically built my pasture by harvesting seeds from wild herbs and just throwing them around my property.
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    Do you add stuff into your commercially available food?

    I would never mix commercial feed with a seed mix. Better leave the 2 things separated in 2 different feeders, the chickens will self regulate and eat whatever they feel like eating. When both options are available, the chickens will eat from both feeders. They don't fill themselves with...
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    Do you add stuff into your commercially available food?

    They eat maple seeds with no issues, but they don't go crazy for those black fava beans. But when the rooster started to eat them, all the hens started to eat them too.
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    Rooster attacked for the first time

    yep that's the best rooster article on the site
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    Do you add stuff into your commercially available food?

    yes, I mean flax seeds or hemp seeds, or a mix of the 2, but not more than 0.3 kg of either one, the other, or both together. The mill doesn't have always the same blend, but they all have similar nutritional values. But it's usually maize, wheat, pea, sorghum, green rice, fava bean, vetch. Not...
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    Rooster attacked for the first time

    A fire will always burn. If you throw gasoline in the fire, it will explode. Roosters are not pets, they're not domesticated animals. Their behavior is the same as wild animals. Fear is the fuel for every naturally aggressive animal. Roosters are naturally aggressive. If you see a hog in a...
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    Rooster attacked for the first time

    That's a different situation. That's 70% the person's problem and 30% rooster problem. Being afraid of a rooster is an invite for the rooster to attack. My rooster would destroy a fleeing human, and a fleeing human would ruin my rooster.
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    Do you add stuff into your commercially available food?

    My easy recipe: 5 kg wheat 3 kg race pigeon proteic seed mix 0.5 kg dried peas 0.3 kg hemp or lin seeds 0.3 kg sunflower seeds Meat or fish or cottage cheese/yogurt 3 times a week Free range. I leave chick starter available free choice for the whole flock. Oyster shell and gravel always...
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    How did your flock annoy you today?

    Yeah. Sheet survived 2 years. Today they realized that below the aluminum foil there was a soft material that they registered as styrofoam. Then they proceed to eat it whole. Now their coop will be 5°C hotter.
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