Category: Chickens
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How to Deal with an Aggressive Rooster
He grabs the back of her neck, treads on her, makes a mess of her feathers, and she shakes it off. Over time he’ll wear bare patches into the backs of your best-favored hens. It looks worse than it is, it tends to improve as he matures, and a hen saddle will protect the birds…
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When Pearl Turns Out to Be Pete: How to Tell If Your Hen Is a Rooster
She came home in April as a splash Ameraucana chick — pale and milky and mottled, the whole bird the color of the inside of a shell. That’s where the name came from. Pearl. It was the obvious thing to call her and I didn’t think about it twice.
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The Crow Brothers: Why My Best Security System Has Feathers
There’s a sound that empties my barnyard in a second and a half — the crows, hollering that a hawk’s overhead. Meet Bruce, Cletus, and Jeff, and the real science behind why crows keep the hawks away from my hens.
