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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.

    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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    Another broody

    We had a broody hen. So we put her in our tsc cage and let her hatch 3 chicks. Now the chicks are 5 weeks old. Broody mom has laid 2 eggs but still mothering them. Now we have another broody. We have tried putting her in a cage with wire floor to give her nothing to heat up against. But on...
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    Broody hatched 3 of 4 eggs How long to give the last egg?

    So proud of our 6mth old broody momma. We had called her crazy girl because she had stopped going into the coop at night and slept high up in a tree. Then of course she turned incredibly broody a month after she started laying. So we gave her 4 EE eggs. She's been so dedicated and sometime in...
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    6mths old and Broody?

    I SO wasn't ready for this. One of my Red Stars that has only been laying since early July has a spot on the nest with an egg underneath her. It's our first broody hen so please bear with my ignorance. She's on a brown egg which means it's one of the 6mth olds egg. I'd rather raise a couple of...
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    One of my Welsummer finally Laid

    On February 25th, we got 2 Welsummers, 2 Red Stars, 2 Black Stars to add to the flock. The 2 black stars laid first, then the 2 reds. Yesterday we got the welsummer egg. Nothing else to add... just excited when a girl finally starts laying. Here's yesterday's eggs from the existing flock and...
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    Backoff Rooster!

    I have an almost 1 yr Cockerel who about every other day is feeling his hormones and wanting to spar a few rounds with me. I've done all the other stuff like holding him or 'mounting' him. The only thing he seems to really understand is a couple of kicks. Not really hard but enough to give him...
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    Chicken PANDEMONIUM!

    Last night, my automatic chicken door closed before the hens were ready. The cockerel is always first to head to the house so he was just sitting in there waiting. Then a Hen came in and the door closed the other 3 outside (Totally Unknown to me!). Around 9pm, it was pretty much dark so I went...
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    Integrating chicks with existing hens and rooster

    We're on day 6 of trying to integrate our 6-7 week old pullets with our existing flock. We've had them in the old coop and run for almost a month doing the see but don't touch thing. We let them out to free range and now we have two flocks. At what point will the rooster accept the pullets? I...
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    So proud of my little chicks

    Our chicks are 4 weeks old (almost 5 weeks now!) and we brought them outside for the first time. We have a circle of chicken wire for them to hang out in for a few hours. We brought them out and they were so lost at first. Our rooster/cockerel told the other girls to steer clear because he's...
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    New coop acceptance

    I searched through the forums and found bits here and there about new coop acclimation, but thought I would make a post and get ideas. We're getting our storage building retrofit coop finished up. Right now the 4 pullets and the cockerel are using an old TSC coop. It's ok to get started with...
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    What's in stock at your TSC Chick Days?

    We've been eagerly anticipating 'Chick days' at the local Tractor Supply to get some more girls to help the 4 pullets taking the brunt of Mr. Cockerel. He's really good with them, but still 4 hens need relief. When we purchased the first batch of 6, they were supposed to be sexed pullets...
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    What age to use eggs?

    We're interested in raising chicks from our girls, but am curious if there is a certain amount of time to wait before trying this? Right now, they have only been laying a few weeks and still waiting on the eggs to get up to normal size. Rooster has been doing his thing all the time any time...
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    Chicken parenting on the fly

    Well I guess I need to introduce myself. I'm Doc and this is my wife Charity. She doesn't post here (yet) but we're proud chicken parents. My wife is getting more in tune with self sufficiency and so we've started gardening and these chickens are our first farm animals. We had no idea how to...
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    No pressure or anything

    3 places to lay and yet all they care about is the one occupied. Of course the rooster is right there on top.
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    Repurpose shed for coop (pictures)

    We're trying to plan ahead for when this spring's chicks are old enough to go into a coop. Right now, we're using a Tractor Supply Premade coop and it fits 5-6 chickens. The problem is there is no room to feed them etc. Like everyone, we want more chickens! Here's a picture, excuse the cat he's...
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    Finally all hens laying. Just got big egg

    Yesterday our last holdout hen layed her first egg. The other 3 have been laying all week but the eggs are small. They're still small, but today someone layed a whopper. It's been so fun watching them progress.
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