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    Broody hen barely eating/drinking

    Trust me.... she knows what she needs a lot better than you do. Leave her alone and she'll be happy. Their body changes when they go broody. They don't need near what you think a normal chicken does. In fact, the more you mess with her, the worse off she is. Don't stress her.
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    How often do grown roosters crow?

    I always think the other rooster is trying to woo my hens from afar and my rooster has to respond immediately to let them know he's on the job. Really have no idea since I've never had a hen break the flock to go find her far away rooster love. But they do make a racket competing with each other.
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    How often do grown roosters crow?

    We have a rooster within earshot and so ours talks to theirs that's about 1/2 a mile away all day long. Both my neighbors have big dogs that occasionally go nuts barking and carrying on so they have no real gripe. But both say they love hearing the rooster. We're in the county though, but our...
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    How much land to avoid bare ground

    I understand what you're trying to do. I had 100% free range chickens until a couple of strays cut my flock by half. What we did was take an area where their coop is which is in the shade. Then we made about half an acre electric fenced in for them. Most of it is shaded and in the trees. But...
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    What am I doing wrong I feel like a horrible chicken mommy 😔

    I hate to say it, but sometimes sweet little cockerels end up being huge jerks who attack everything and don't get along with anyone or anything. Doesn't make you a bad chicken momma. It means he's probably just being a rooster.
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    Are my chickens defective lol?

    It won't be long that you'll wish they'd go back in that coop when you're trying to catch one. I agree with shadrach above. They'll brave up soon enough.
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    Is my rooster just a teenager or a jerk

    What sometimes seems violent is just him figuring it out. Same with the girls figuring him out. Chicks aren't very friendly and caring towards each other.
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    Broody hen barely eating/drinking

    Trust me.... the less she eats... the better. You'll already have plenty of broody poop. Ours was so determined to sit that she pooped right off the nest. If you haven't experienced broody poop yet... get ready.
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    Is my rooster just a teenager or a jerk

    My current cockerel is around 6 months old and maturing. Around 4 months he started crowing and mounting the 2 hens he hatched with and chased them. The would try the bigger girls, but they put him in his place. Then about 5 months they started letting him mount them. In fact, some actually...
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    Can my chicken be friends with a stray cat?

    The chicken/cat dynamic is a curious one. At first the cat is greatly interested in the little chicks because they want to eat them. But after a month or so, those little chicks aren't so little. My cat is a great hunter/tree climber cat. But when it comes to taking on chickens... nope... No...
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    When do I start to worry??

    It's also early in the year for egg laying depending on where you are. Heck, I'm in Middle Georgia and am just now starting to get 4-6 on 10 laying hens. They'll get to laying when they're ready. I suggest either putting out oyster shell or switching to a layer feed. I don't like oyster shell...
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    Angry Rooster

    None of that ever worked with my rooster. He just didn't like males and half the time my wife either. I got to where I would carry a rake around with me just to keep him off me. I tried holding him down. I tried kicking him. I tried about everything in the world except killing him. Why? Because...
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    [wing injury] f****** dog

    We had a dog attack and weren't so lucky. However we did have 2 hens that escaped but with some obvious signs of a struggle. One had a bare spot on her left leg quarter behind where she was missing feathers. She never had any problem with the flock. The second was one of our 'tamed' hens that...
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    Possible 2 cockerel situation

    Had a tragic stray dog attack that killed my awesome rooster who fought for over 1 hr while most of my hens got to safety a month or so ago. My new introduced chicks and their previous broody mother are integrated. Yesterday we heard a faint crow. Then again and again. We were so happy to have...
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    Our first predators and it's eye opening.

    Not yet. I'm waiting for them but also have a semi secured electric netting/fence perimeter for them now. I put a 50 mile charger to light them up if they try it. I genuinely hope they keep them in. The second to last thing I want to do is kill dogs. The last thing I want to do is have to deal...
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    Neighbor's dog attacking chickens.

    The OP is already in a neighbor war. They just fail to understand it. I chase off strays with a pellet gun. Any dog on my property even if they aren't attacking my chickens get run off. If I catch one attacking my chickens then I won't hesitate to kill it. If it's the neighbor's dog and they...
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    Hen meets cat

    My hens and cats get along just fine. Mainly because the cats know that the hens are scary and big and can be mean to their own type, much less a cat who messes with them.
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    Our first predators and it's eye opening.

    We had a few tornadoes in our county last month with one a direct hit over the house. I assume those dogs are from that. But none of my neighbors up and down in the area knows who they belong to. I'm going to work on fencing a large area that is wooded but thinned a lot from the tornado. Around...
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    Our first predators and it's eye opening.

    Came home Friday to a dead rooster and a dead 7 mth old hen and 2 missing hens. Looked on my cameras and found out someone's 2 dogs were wilding on my chickens. 4 out of 12 lost. The worst is my poor rooster. He was awful and always having to watch him to keep from getting attacked. But video...
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    Aggressive Rooster

    Now that it's getting cold, I have sleeves on and can hold mine. During the Summer that little ground pecker will bite the fire out of my arm, hand, and anything else he can. Oh and also he's gotten some of the hens to try and jump up and get me as well. Mine met me at my truck as I was leaving...
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