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Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! #2061345
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I know lots of you have chickens, so let's create a thread where we can share our knowledge of chickens and all that goes with them.

Having had chickens for many years now, I have learned lots but have scads more to learn and I am in hopes you all will share. I have frequented the actual Backyard Chickens forum and have truly learned much from the fine members there but think we can learn from each other too.

My first question is: Can you raise banty chickens with regular sized chickens? I have heard yes and no, so if you have any experience with this I would greatly appreciate your input.

Never having had banty chickens, I have no working knowledge but think I might like to incorporate some to my flock if they get along.


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2061395
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I have no experience with banties at all...I've raised Australorps, X-Rocks, and Leghorns, and that's pretty much it...but I can't imagine there'd be a problem with putting them together. The problem would be if one of them is a rooster and you have a standard rooster. Standards and banties can and do interbreed, so I'd think you might have a few small tiffs until all the hens settled out the hierarchy, then no problems.

I have kept, at various times, Muscovy ducks, Royal Palm turkeys, and Ringneck pheasants in the run with the chickens and/or each other, and nobody ever had a problem with anybody else, in there...


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2061429
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I've raised bantys along side regular birds with no problems...but most of my bantys are in individual cages. Most of them are Old English Silver Duckwing Bantams, very cool and calm bantys.


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2061478
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Hummm...so I have a large coop and they all run together in the coop yard as well as roosting together. I do not have an area where I could actually separate them all the time.

So, is that agreeable? I can section off my coop yard but there is no covered area where I do that where they can roost protected.

???



This is my original coop...the right front portion has a door that can be closed between the extension and the primary coop. Changes have been made also...the entire front left panel and back panel have been closed in and a wall erected between the two for the roost station.

So, am I in a playing field for integrating the two species?


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2061482
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Y'all back yard chickeners be careful about allowing anyone who has other chickens come in contact with your birds or even your farm, house, barn.

Avian Influenza has been confirmed in the state. Shut down all individual sales of live chickens, period.

If that stuff gets out of hand, it will shut down and bankrupt half of this state.


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2061485
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Maggie, the answer to your question is yes. When I was a kid, I had Bantamn hens the size of a crow in the same pen with Dominecker hens. Never had one minutes trouble.

Now if your big rooster starts mating with your tiny hens, he may break them down.....


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: FurFlyin] #2061496
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Originally Posted By: FurFlyin
Y'all back yard chickeners be careful about allowing anyone who has other chickens come in contact with your birds or even your farm, house, barn.

Avian Influenza has been confirmed in the state. Shut down all individual sales of live chickens, period.

If that stuff gets out of hand, it will shut down and bankrupt half of this state.


Oh gosh, I knew it was confirmed in TN but did not know AL...thanks!


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: FurFlyin] #2061522
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Originally Posted By: FurFlyin
Y'all back yard chickeners be careful about allowing anyone who has other chickens come in contact with your birds or even your farm, house, barn.

Avian Influenza has been confirmed in the state. Shut down all individual sales of live chickens, period.

If that stuff gets out of hand, it will shut down and bankrupt half of this state.


I saw this on the news yesterday. Looks like they are taking every precaution as in uthinising whole commercial flocks.


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2061595
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Soooo...next question. Couple years ago, we acquired a dozen Black Star biddies. I put them in our chicken tractor to grow them up enough that I felt comfortable putting them in with the 9 adult birds we have. When they were 8 or 10 weeks old, we took one of them and put her in the run with others, everything was fine, so we put 2 more, and so on, until they were all in the big run. No problems, whatsoever. After about a week, 'Huntress and I were going somewhere or other for a couple days, so before we left the feeders and waterers were filled, etc. When we got back, all 12 of the younger birds were gone...as in, vanished. Not a drop of blood, not a feather, nothing. No holes or signs of digging/breaking into the coup, and not a single problem with any of the 9 adult birds. It was like they were never even there. The roosts are all inside the coup, the run is 20x30 with top and bottom rails on a 7' tall fence, and it's got Bird-X netting over the whole thing, so no hawks or owls. What happened to the 12 younger birds in 2 days and 1 night that they vanished without a single trace?


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2061614
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Kaint no !! That's pretty strange. I would think they got out some where the rest of the big birds couldn't get through. If it were a cat,coon ,hawk ect.you would be feathers and such everywhere from my experience.


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Originally Posted By: FurFlyin
Y'all back yard chickeners be careful about allowing anyone who has other chickens come in contact with your birds or even your farm, house, barn.

Avian Influenza has been confirmed in the state. Shut down all individual sales of live chickens, period.

If that stuff gets out of hand, it will shut down and bankrupt half of this state.
Good nite... shocked


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2061632
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Really? Wow! Can't really think of what the predator was unless the big birds got them. Seems as if there were any other predator, there would have been some sort of evidence in the coop. There was no break, loose spot or anything in the overhead netting?

Exactly how big were they? Could a snake have eaten them?

That is just crazy!


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: DEADorALIVE] #2061635
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Originally Posted By: DEADorALIVE
Soooo...next question. Couple years ago, we acquired a dozen Black Star biddies. I put them in our chicken tractor to grow them up enough that I felt comfortable putting them in with the 9 adult birds we have. When they were 8 or 10 weeks old, we took one of them and put her in the run with others, everything was fine, so we put 2 more, and so on, until they were all in the big run. No problems, whatsoever. After about a week, 'Huntress and I were going somewhere or other for a couple days, so before we left the feeders and waterers were filled, etc. When we got back, all 12 of the younger birds were gone...as in, vanished. Not a drop of blood, not a feather, nothing. No holes or signs of digging/breaking into the coup, and not a single problem with any of the 9 adult birds. It was like they were never even there. The roosts are all inside the coup, the run is 20x30 with top and bottom rails on a 7' tall fence, and it's got Bird-X netting over the whole thing, so no hawks or owls. What happened to the 12 younger birds in 2 days and 1 night that they vanished without a single trace?


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2061650
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DOA, it sounds like someone went in the pen and got those 12 chickens. If it had of been an animal they wouldn't have got just those chickens and there would have been feathers and chicken parts all over the place.
My game chickens (yard chickens) all sleep in a big cedar tree in the back yard. The dang things are laying all over the place, but we get plenty of eggs from the nest I have put up.. We keep the bantams in a pen, those game roosters would kill them.

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2061651
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No tears in the raptor netting, no holes in or under the fence. They were about half-grown, I'd guess, and if a snake big enough to eat all 12 had gotten in there, he sure wouldn't have been able to get back out, after a meal like that.

I could probably accept "found a way out" if just a few were gone, even though they'd likely still have been nearby, but every single one of them?...when they had feed, water, and shelter, and were completely accepted by the older birds?


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2061655
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I've wondered about someone getting them, but there's only one other house within a mile of us that keeps chickens, and he owns the feed store I got those from! For a stranger coming into the yard, 12 half-grown chickens out of EVERYTHING else in the yard and barn seems like a really bizarre thing to steal.


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Originally Posted By: Maggie123
Originally Posted By: FurFlyin
Y'all back yard chickeners be careful about allowing anyone who has other chickens come in contact with your birds or even your farm, house, barn.

Avian Influenza has been confirmed in the state. Shut down all individual sales of live chickens, period.

If that stuff gets out of hand, it will shut down and bankrupt half of this state.


Oh gosh, I knew it was confirmed in TN but did not know AL...thanks!


The Alabama Cooperative Extension System has created a website to assist backyard flock owners with maintaining healthy birds and to provide answers for avian influenza control. It can be found at

http://www.aces.edu/eden/agricultural-disasters/avian-influenza/


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Before you know it, they'll be hopping up on the edge of the tub...containing them gets to be a challenge, right before it's safe for them to go outside!


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Fifteen is my limit on Schnitzen-Gruben, Baby...

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I've got about 30 black copper marans. Any of yall ever had any dorkings? Been thinking about getting a few just to try out. Fixing to fire up my incubators and hatch abunch of marans if anybody wants some. They lay some big dark brown eggs.

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