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Ok so I have 6 - three week old chicks, 2 or 3 are hens, which i am keeping, the remaining Roosters are going to a friend who has a farm, I just hatched out 14 new babies today. I want to wait about a week and then move the new chicks - hens and 1 Roo in with the older hens so that I don't have...

New rooster mom here. We have been hatching out eggs this year to increase our flock, we will be keeping one rooster with the girls but the others we will grow out and cull for meat. My question is this, if we build a grow out pen for the roosters and have various age roosters together...

I have searched through the threads here and narrowed down what is locally available to me to grab today. I started my eggs 4 days ago in a Kebonnixs 12 egg incubator. Before the eggs were in the humidity was great, now I can barely keep it above 45%. Was going to get a better model, have it...

I have a Broody Golden Comet. At first I thought she was just cold or ill, but nope she is Broody. We got the eggs from under her and today I went out and she's sitting on more today. When I tried to get them she went mad! Mind you we have NOOO Rooster so it's not like they can hatch...

A couple days ago when I was out of town my daughter found a snake in the coop. She removed said snake and all was fine the first night, then last night the girls all boycotted the coop, refused to go in at bedtime and choose to sleep in the run. We are fairly secure, not many night predators...

Hi there, my first winter with my girls. It's currently 16 degrees outside with a real feel of 5. It is going to be getting colder over the next few days with a couple days in single digits. My coop is fully closed in, except for vents at top, not insulated but girls have a thick layer of...

We bought an auto waterer that holds 4 gallons of water and has the little red cups that they just peck and the water comes out, this is outside for them when they are in the run and than a typical waterer in the coop for inside. They do not use the outside one in the run, nor when outside are...

We have 6 - 6 week old baby chicks, fully feathered it appears, they have been moved from the brooder to the coop 2 days ago. The coop is closed with a fully enclosed run attached. I would like to be able to let them out at least during the day and than in again at night. These girls are...