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    Best Broiler Feed?

    Served raw. Mice are served whole. The others are split open so they can get to the insides.
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    Best Broiler Feed?

    Depends on what the additives are but to some people soy or additives are important, to some they are not. To me soy is OK as long as the nutrients in the total of what they eat is balanced. Could you please post a link to those videos? I'd like to see them in context. What you feed them has...
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    Eggs in cold weather

    If the eggs have frozen and cracked, no. Boil them up and feed them back to the chickens. Even if the eggs are frozen but they are not cracked they are safe to use.
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    13 week old silkie squatting??

    Hi, welcome to the forum, glad you joined! The squatting is submission, regardless of sex or age. It is not a sign that they are ready to lay. It is not even a sure sign that it is a female, though it probably is. A lot of people like to read a lot into the squatting. I don't. I once had...
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    Day 19 1/2 and humidity went from 65 to 45 during the night..did this drop just seal their fate?

    I understand hatching is a stressful time. There is noth9ing I can say that will stop you from stressing. But please try to not stress over this, that temporary drop in moisture was almost certainly not important.
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    One out of eight hatched

    That's hard. Some chicks can take a long time to hatch. They need to absorb the yolk, dry up blood vessels in the membrane surrounding them, and do other things before they hatch. Some do a lot of that before external pip, some do it before external pip. If that chick does hatch I'd expect...
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    Day 19 1/2 and humidity went from 65 to 45 during the night..did this drop just seal their fate?

    First, there is nothing you can do about it that will change the outcome. It is what it is. I assume you raised the humidity back up? If not, do so immediately. There is no need to panic. If no eggs had pipped, that temporary drop should not bother them at all. If an egg had pipped it...
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    One out of eight hatched

    You can read anything. Some of it might be true. Chicks absorb the yolk before they hatch. They can live off of the nutrients and moisture in that yolk for 72 hours or more. Nature set it up that way so the hen can stay on the nest and hatch the later chicks instead of having to take the...
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    Moving outdoors

    12-32 C = 54-90 F 8C = 46 F I've had chicks a little younger than that go through nights below freezing. Yours are feathered out, those lower temperatures should be downright comfortable for them. They should be able to handle that heat also. I don't see any reason to acclimate them, they...
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    Rooster Spurs 🐓

    I only trim spurs when I see an actual need. That is really rare. The time that it is actually needed usually doesn't come. I use a Dremel and the disc meant to cut metal. I don't remove the entire spur, just blunt them by cutting off the sharp tip.
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    Hens attack rooster

    When he matures the flock dynamics will change. Going through that maturing phase may be hard on the flock and you (or it may be pretty easy, not every time is an absolute disaster), but if you can get though it he will become flock master. He may be a good flock master or a bad flock master...
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    Small flock with one rooster

    You do not get guarantees with living animals. Anything can happen. Those four may be fine with him, they may not. Your highest risk is when they are immature. At some point that cockerel will want to mate the girls. Things may go really smooth or they may get fairly hectic. If you can...
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    run question

    Welcome to the forum, glad you joined! I would. You never know when you will need to go into the run to deal with an issue. Lots of different things could happen that you would want to go onto the run on a moments notice, let alone long term maintenance. The door could be from the coop to...
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    4 month old pullets..... do I need to do lights for them to start laying?

    The normal cycle for chickens before they were domesticated was that they started laying eggs and hatching chicks in the spring when the days are getting longer, kept laying eggs and raising chicks in the good weather days of summer, but stopped laying eggs and hatching chicks when the days get...
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    Which one?

    What are your goals with having a boy? Are you planning on hatching chicks? If so, which male do you want the chicks to take after? If you are not planning on hatching what role do you want that boy to fulfill? To make a decision you need some criteria. Your 6 month old cockerels are still...
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    Buff Orpington stopped laying

    Hi, welcome to the forum, glad you joined! I don't know what was going on with her in October. It is possible something happened that will affect her future egg laying, but I think it more likely that the stress of what she was going through started a molt. Are you seeing any loose feathers...
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    Hens attack rooster

    HI, welcome to the forum, glad you joined! It is a matter of maturity. Your pullets are more mature than your cockerel. It is not unusual for more mature chickens to bully or even brutally attack less mature chickens. About the time my pullets start to lay they are accepted by the older hens...
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    Rooster tried to kill other rooster

    Then flip a coin. For that purpose breed is not relevant. I know it is not easy to make that decision, not if you don't see any differences in them that matters. But I'll make a suggestion. Get rid of the RIR. Why? He lost the fight so his confidence may be shaken. Do I really believe...
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    Rooster tried to kill other rooster

    What are your goals for keeping a rooster? Are you going to hatch chicks? If so, which rooster do you want the chicks to be more like. A Marans rooster would give you darker eggshells. If you are not going to hatch chicks, flip a coin if you can't otherwise make a decision. It is your...
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    Grower/Layer Feed Mix to Laying Hens

    You can find anything on the internet. A lot of things can seem "logical". Remember that I'm on the internet when I respond to this. Commercial laying chickens are bred to lay a lot of nice sized eggs and have relatively small bodies. With their bodies smaller than the dual purpose chickens...
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