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    Am I doing this wrong (first broody hen)

    Ok, thank you. I think I will start with covering that nesting box at night.
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    Am I doing this wrong (first broody hen)

    I have 8 hens, no roosters. My reliable layer, Roxanne (9 month old Australorp) went broody about 10 days ago? Maybe two weeks now. By that I mean she wants to LIVE in the nesting box, 100 % of the time. She comes out to eat in the AM, goes right back in there, and has stopped laying eggs as...
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    First Rooster Experience- Advice

    Honestly, because I live in an area where roosters are permitted, I was thinking of adopting one later that was full grown and has a nice personality. There seem to be plenty of people getting rid of them just because they can't have them where they live. But I may wait a bit before I do that...
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    First Rooster Experience- Advice

    Thanks for this--I have read so many pro-rooster taming ideas, and I just keep thinking it's impossible to get this rooster to ever stop attacking the dogs--even if I did manage to train him to not attack me. There's just too many possibilities here.
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    First Rooster Experience- Advice

    This is my first time owning chickens. We have 3 hens a surprise black sex link rooster (got in the barred rock bin at TSC). We actually had another rooster (same bin) who got taken by a hawk at about 11 weeks. They are all 6 months old and two are laying. . . and 4 more chicks in a brooder...
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    Starlight Green Egger egg color.

    Just wanted to share on this thread that my SGE is so different looking from all of these, and lays light olive eggs. I got two from TSC, one unfortunately got taken by an owl before she ever laid an egg, but the survivor is a very prolific green egg layer. (Eggs are on the left and the SGE...
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    Adolescent rooster (black sex link)

    Thanks for your responses. Since this post he's actually been quite a bit better, and I wonder if it's because I was going to the coop while one of the hens started laying. He was keeping guard I think. Now she's been laying for a week and he's a lot more chill. I have teenagers, no young kids...
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    Adolescent rooster (black sex link)

    We just started raising chickens in February. We have a current flock of 4 hens, 1 rooster, and only 1 hen laying. Everyone is 21 weeks. So...we had a flock of 8 and we had 3 separate predator attacks. We now know we have hawks, owls and one fox incident. For this reason, I want these hens to...
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    Nesting boxes vs. Trees

    ok, thank you. I may do the "fake egg" thing in the nesting boxes, and not worry about their staying cool--it is hot, they are panting and drinking extra water, so I bet it's cooler under the shrubs and trees.
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    Nesting boxes vs. Trees

    I have been letting my chickens (I am just starting and only have four 17 week old Pullets) free range through our yard from like 7am to 5pm. I put them in the run or the coop after that and then they walk themselves up into the chicken house that I can lock. We have two nesting boxes all set up...
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    Owl behavior- weird kill

    Thanks--we have installed quite a few things--my husband (the coop builder) went a little over the top and is adding a lot of 2x3 beams to make the whole thing less accessible. There still seems like plenty of ventilation with the hardware cloth. Also, we found an old motion sensor light that...
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    Owl behavior- weird kill

    Thanks. I think that would help end the mystery.
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    Owl behavior- weird kill

    Three days ago my two youngest chickens got killed. I heard them around 6 am, squawking (which made no sense because they shoud've been in their coop which is pretty far from my bedroom window). I went running out to find both of them, still alive, very badly wounded (lots of blood under their...
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    Can I see the inside of your smaller coops?

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    Pullet or Cockerel (I guess this is an EE mix, lots of Ameraucana in it)

    Thank you! I'm looking forward to how puffy her cheeks are going to be.
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    Pullet or Cockerel (I guess this is an EE mix, lots of Ameraucana in it)

    Hi! I got two chicks from a local farmer (met the chicken and rooster parents). One of them is an olive egger, described as Wellsummer/Ameraucana and the other they called an Ameraucana--I don't really care, just hoping for fun egg colors. I also paid $4 each, so . . . not exactly high end...
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    8 week old chick (Ameraucana) peeps all the time

    You were both right--since I posted I have noticed that she is mostly just peeping when separated from the other (she cannot stand to be away from the other one for a moment). She does seem totally healthy, and last night she was the first one in the coop (so she got the coveted middle of the...
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    8 week old chick (Ameraucana) peeps all the time

    Hi--I'm pretty new to the world of chicken raising. We got 4 chicks and then decided to add 2 more, so we have 4 15 week old chickens (they all appear to be hens, miraculously) and two 8 week old chickens that I bought from a local farm. I am not sure on the genders yet, but one is an Ameraucana...
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