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We deep clean our coop 2 xs per year, spring and before winter when we begin the deep bedding. Hubby simply opens the hatch where they brood and take out the visible droppings from their nightly roosting everyday, and adds a little more pine chips. In the spring, he does the same but we don't...

I get it. We want two more, but they require you buy 4, right?

They say they are related to dinosaurs? Not sure about that, but I am sure they've survived in the wild without any humans. The word Rooster actually is derived from two words, roosts here. The roosters has been given the instincts for breeding, finding food, finding safe places to lay their...

Just sit back and watch the "birds" outside. My Cardinals are at the feeder in all kinds of weather, as are most of the common birds that winter in Central PA.

When they wanna get warm to go inside the coop. If they wanna get really warm they snuggle next to the heat panels on the back walls of the lower and upper deck of their coop. If they want a change of scenery, they go in the dog house covered in a tarp inside with a roost. If they wanna dust...

??? I would be more concerned about the comb shrinking in size. I am putting colloidal on my Road Island, because it looks a little smaller, but it was pale. My rule of thumb is if what I am giving to them, or applying to them can have adverse effects I want to know exactly what I have going...

I noticed my Road Islands comb is pale and seems smaller. But, she is laying, acting like the "prick" she can be to the newbies and eating and drinking just fine. What I deduced is that she started getting the pale comb around the time she started molting. I still see some shafts and she...

We have two heat plates Producer's Pride. It is a combination heater and brooder. We have one in the top of our coop opposite where they roost, and one in the bottom that we close up the hardware cloth with plastic. They are great because if a chicken feels the need to warm up they can go...

We have a unique coop. It was a Tractor supply one that we built onto, using it as a guide. So our girls have a "townhouse coop. The bottom half is enclosed with hardware cloth, and the upper half is enclosed with several doorways. Upstairs in the winter we place on the wall furthest from...

Thanks, a very timely article for me. My roosters is acting fine but I was getting a bit worried because he has bald patches under his long neck feathers in the front of his neck. I checked them all for mites and there was no signs. This makes perfect sense.

Hen pecked roo too! However, this situation is a bit different. They all get along soo well, except when he is in the act of mating one of the hens. When he does several of them will run to them and begin violently pecking the roo while in the act around his neck. This behavior befuddles me...

I never looked much at it. But every time I happened to see it turn it went in the same direction.

That was overall the most informative and best reaponse to my question. Thank you.

They popped so fast. It was quite rewarding.

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They all hatched on Mother's Day! It was really funny watching them pip, zip, and pop out of their shells. The hatch in the incubator reminded me of "Jiffy Pop". Out of 22, we got 16 hatches. Several of the duds started pipping, but after a long time "nothing" so we had to discard them. My...

I appreciate your perspective. Those cutr fluff balls are beginning to exhibit a vulture appearance and mentality. Hopefully there will be moatly cokerels among them! At what age do you cull your dual purpose? And what is the quality of their meat vs the meat only?

I thought I figured out the breed of our rooster. After seeing yours, IDK. Does anyone have a clue?