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    Baby crowing and STILL not weaned! What age is your oldest chick to wean from mama?

    Omg how adorable!!! You know if that was a pullet she could’ve very well been laying. Can you imagine her running off to lay, and running back under her mama?!? lol So my mama is a standard size and daddy is a bantam. The chicks are definitely taking after daddy, they’re small..well short but...
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    Baby crowing and STILL not weaned! What age is your oldest chick to wean from mama?

    Hi, so I’m just curious. How old was your oldest chick that was weaned ? Typically my chicks are weaned by 5 weeks old. But I’ve got a clutch, they just turned 7 weeks, one of which is CROWING and mama still mamas them. It’s fine with me, they’re healthy and happy. But it hysterical to watch a...
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    My hens are making my roosters look good!

    My og flock of 12 hens and my primary rooster have got the grouch bug or something. I’ve also got a bachelor flock of 4 roosters. The boys occasionally bicker nothing serious. And usually the og flock is quiet and calm unless singing the egg song. But here lately, my hens have been just been...
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    Should I add a Rooster to my flock?

    What a handsome boy! Im trying to think, how old was my Cochin when he lost his hormonal mind..he crowed at 9 weeks and I THINK he was about 12-15 weeks when he turned into the cockerel nightmare. For about 6 weeks or so I really disliked him. He was awful, to me, the hens just a nightmare. But...
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    I HATE the “pecking order”!

    Yes! Every time!
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    I HATE the “pecking order”!

    No none of us would but the HENS do lol. They even have little cliques. And I think they talk about me behind my back. They’ll be all squawking in the coop but when I go out there, they get all quiet. And they look at me all judgey.
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    I HATE the “pecking order”!

    Right!? “Omg Betty, guess who slept beside Fred last night? Sheryl!” “What a skank, I never liked her. She thinks she’s all that, because she has feathers on her feet-ugh mutant” OR “Did you see Mary’s babies?? Omg girl they’re all yellow! I heard she was sneaking around with Charlie.”
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    I HATE the “pecking order”!

    You are 100% correct. Hens and roosters want to be with the flock. With my broodies if they’re going to hatch a clutch, I try my best to keep them with the flock. It’s just easier and better that way. In this recent case, my bantam hen laid a few eggs that weren’t fertilized (I don’t know why)...
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    I HATE the “pecking order”!

    Oh I’m sure there’s biological reason for it, but getting a specific dirt hole isn’t for survival it’s just being a buttface. I don’t intervene I let my chickens chicken, but I hate it!
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    I HATE the “pecking order”!

    I’m not a chicken but it seems unnecessary to me. I’ve got a new mama, reintegrated into the flock, she’ll be dirt bathing, and another hen will boot her out of her hole. There’s tons of other holes!!! And these girls were flock mates since day one! Or mama will be eating and get chased off...
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    I HATE the “pecking order”!

    I hate the pecking order. I’ve got a flock of 25. And they’re really friendly docile chickens, no bully’s. Until… every time a hen is broody or sick or whatever the case, and need to be separated from the flock, once returned, that hateful pecking order cr*p starts. I hate watching them pecked...
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    Hound Thread!!!

    Lazy goofy dogs? That’s my kind of dog! I’m seriously thinking I’ll get one. @oldhenlikesdogs you are an animal enabler! 😊
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    Hound Thread!!!

    I’m not a hunter either. (I will however take and eat as much venison as I can get!). Hm I have fenced in property. Maybe I should get a basset. They’re awfully cute with those ears, and my coonhound needs a buddy.
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    Hound Thread!!!

    A basset hound, I know the bawl, I know the ears and short legs..I’ve never had one:( Are they good hunters too? Wonder how they’d be around chickens?
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    Hound Thread!!!

    Black and tan, blue tick, redbone..I love them all! Coonhounds (at least mine) is a good hunter. I’m set back in the country and he’s treed SO many raccoons. Opossums, wild cats..he’s pretty good. Now if I can just get him to jump up and get a hawk I’d be set!
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