Awesome! That'll be fun!
I don't now how much you know about raising chicks, so if it's your first time or two, you might want to stop by our Learning Center. There's tons of articles written by our members about raising chicks in there.
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Your chickens sound so cool! Hopefully, John Wayne learns to court your hens a little better. He must be a bit young? If you have any pictures, we'd love to see them!
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Deer are scared of dogs. They had the run of this place and ate all of the hostas, like dozens of them, before we bought it. Bring out the border collie and that all stopped. Then came the corgi to help. They are all around this place and we see them every single day in the neighboring...
I was looking this up here myself as we have two ducks for our first ones and not sure exact age but most likely around four months old. Most I could find says they'll lay around five to six months for most ducks. Here was one post about it.
We use straw in our duck house, and that's working...
It looks like that's got nests on both sides, so a total of six?
You need one nest per four chickens, but most of us always have extras for broodies. Still, you could pull the nests out of one side and still have three of them. That'd give them a little more room in there.
If you have a...
No, you are fine. You did nothing wrong as you were in fact, looking to save her from predators.
Maybe you're right and she's fine, but if you never see her again, she at least knew you to be safe versus where she came from.
If she never shows back up, you could make a brooder in that new...
If it's spinning, as in, you try to type something or "like" a post, and you see a bar going across the top, but nothing's happening for a few seconds or a minute, that's slow internet.
I don't get that too often, but our internet is wireless, off of a 125' tower in our yard, so on really...
Our pen is a parrot aviary four feet from the huge growout pen these four hens and chicks are in.
If I didn't have that, I've got a couple of other places to put her, but if nothing else, I'd use an XL dog kennel. That's what many of us use as a broody jail. In her case, she's not broody, so...
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We blend chicks with hens and hens and roosters, and generally what you're doing with separate food/water station helps, as does the pen that has the rooster.
I have one pen with four hens and a dozen chickens, none of them are there's, aged about a month to two months. One hen is above...
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Your first eggs should be coming soon and gosh that's so eggciting! Sorry about having to rehome your rooster. Been there, done that, and many tears went with them.
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I so wish you'd joined before you bought that coop as we would have all told you those prebuilts hold half at most of what they say they will. Chickens need 4 sq foot each in the coop, and you're probably already over that. To avoid them picking on each other...
Since you say one is a hen and she and the pullet have seen each other for over a month, I'd go ahead and put them together and watch to make sure they'll be okay.
Once those two are fine, then I don't see any reason why you couldn't get more to add in, but are you getting chicks, or do you...
If you still have them, I would post them in this group on Facebook.
Also, there is a Rooster Sanctuary in Stevens Point, not far from you. That's nearly a two-hour drive for us, but we went there once, and she's got a really neat place there. She'd take hens too, but only do this if you're...