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If you already have a .22lr, Aguila sub-sonic ammo is the teets.  Doesn't cycle in a semi, so make your shots count.  Bolt gun or lever action would be optimal.

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3 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

If you already have a .22lr, Aguila sub-sonic ammo is the teets.  Doesn't cycle in a semi, so make your shots count.  Bolt gun or lever action would be optimal.

This is the way.  I had a fox that nabbed a half dozen or so chickens and two ducks at my last house (in a neighborhood).   Smell is one thing.  If they ever get the taste of chicken, they'll be coming back indefinitely.  The day it nabbed the ducks, I found the head of our drake about a half mile down the road in Godfather fashion.  Foxes are some of the coolest animals... until they gain that affinity for your birds.  

Finally got him with a sub-sonic .22 round in the cloak of darkness.  Held the spot light under the stock of my old lever action iron sight .22 and popped him between the eyes at about 30 yds.  

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Get a .22 pellet rifle. Bigger pellet and subsonic. Less noise than hammering a nail. 

I know. Need to get subsonic rounds. Issue is the house behind me. Put a pellet in his ass last night. West German rifle. Pretty good pop.
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Pretty new to the chicken game. This is our first "flock." Got 12 eggs from a friend of a friend. Five hatched. My wife was told the possible breeds, but she forgot all the names except Easter egg. Looking for some help on a few things... identification, concerned about the health of one, and I need to get rid of the rooster(s).

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Identification: After a bit of digging, I've got some ideas, but looking for confirmation from those of y'all that have been in the game longer. I'm guessing the two white ones are leghorns? The speckled white one... that the easter egg? The plain brown one...no idea. Then the one that's obviously a rooster, I don't really care. He'll be discussed below.

Health: The plain brown one. Doesn't really have a comb, and its beak is all over the color spectrum. Anything to be concerned about? If I knew the breed, I'd probably be able to answer this question on my own. Should be able to zoom in on this one to get a better look at what I'm talking about.

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The rooster(s): I think there's only the one, but if any of the others look like roosters let me know. I'd rather deal with them before they piss off the neighbors. My wife thinks it's a great looking cock, but I've never seen one in person so I wouldn't know. First, is there enough meat on this guy to be worth the trouble? Second, if not, anybody wanna take him off my hands? 

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You sure he/she is a rooster?  I only ask because we’ve had a couple Cochins and at least one ayam with largish combs. 

Not enough meat to eat yet.  How old?

They can look pretty unusual young, especially if they’re mixed, so I wouldn’t say anything is unhealthy about that one.  If it’s eating, drinking, and not shitting blood or worms you’re probably good. 
 

Not sure where you live, but be careful w the chicken wire.  Raccoons can tear through it.  My wife goes overboard on the 1/2” cloth wire, but you might want to have a 2’ wide roll around the bottom

 

Lays eggs, comb to body ratio made us think she was a male when she was 2-4 months:

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1 hour ago, UT_OB1 said:

You sure he/she is a rooster?  I only ask because we’ve had a couple Cochins and at least one ayam with largish combs. 

Not enough meat to eat yet.  How old?

They can look pretty unusual young, especially if they’re mixed, so I wouldn’t say anything is unhealthy about that one.  If it’s eating, drinking, and not shitting blood or worms you’re probably good. 
 

Not sure where you live, but be careful w the chicken wire.  Raccoons can tear through it.  My wife goes overboard on the 1/2” cloth wire, but you might want to have a 2’ wide roll around the bottom

 

Lays eggs, comb to body ratio made us think she was a male when she was 2-4 months:

 

They’re about 15 weeks old. 99% sure about the rooster. It’s just started its noisy morning routine the last couple days. Still hasn’t perfected it, but it’s getting pretty loud.

I’m in West Lake Hills. Never seen a coon around. Plenty of foxes and coyotes though!

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On 8/29/2025 at 3:07 PM, SquishMitten said:

They’re about 15 weeks old. 99% sure about the rooster. It’s just started its noisy morning routine the last couple days. Still hasn’t perfected it, but it’s getting pretty loud.

I’m in West Lake Hills. Never seen a coon around. Plenty of foxes and coyotes though!

If you weren’t 4 hours away I’d take him off your hands. Probably can get someone to take him for free on FB, Nextdoor, or Craigslist. 
 

another weekend, another coop. I’m exhausted and soon to be broke building coops.  This one is for the Silkies. Wife wants to raise them and sell them.  They are a little smaller so it is a little smaller. Still need a door and ladder, and I have to put bird netting up around the fenced area for them before they can roam. Will get the kids to paint the non pt siding on it. 
 

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Another week, another coop. Hope to wrap this one up tomorrow so this little guy and a few of his friends can have more space 

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Finished except for staining after the pt wood dries (forgot to take a pic after roof). 18 more eggs in the incubator tonight. Wife said I can stop building pens/coops when I’m dead. 
 

 

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On 7/30/2025 at 9:55 AM, BabaYaga said:

If you already have a .22lr, Aguila sub-sonic ammo is the teets.  Doesn't cycle in a semi, so make your shots count.  Bolt gun or lever action would be optimal.

 

On 8/1/2025 at 9:29 AM, InkaUtexas said:


I know. Need to get subsonic rounds. Issue is the house behind me. Put a pellet in his ass last night. West German rifle. Pretty good pop.

Maybe this was just me, but my 10/22 takedown will cycle using Aguila subsonic ammo and a Q El Camino suppressor, provided that the lockup is clean and tight. 
 

YMMV

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We’ve been mixing a few leghorn hens with our Ayams. It down-poured yesterday and the Ayams wouldn’t let the leghorn in the hoop coop, and the hen was just too dump to walk under another shelter in the pen, so it just gave up on life and stood there unmoving for about 10 minutes. Wife had to go grab it and put it in the barn. stupid chicken. 
 

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I have a neighbor who lets his chickens free range. For some reason, a rooster heads my way and has been waking me up crowing between 3 and 4 in the morning all summer. I’ve complained to him about it and he basically just shrugs his shoulders. The little bastard was crowing in my yard this morning, so I shot the fucker with a .44 magnum and deposited what was left of the carcass on the hood of the neighbors truck on my way to work. Very much looking forward to that conversation if he has the stones. 
 

Hens are cool, roosters suck. 

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3 hours ago, mooseoutfront said:

I have a neighbor who lets his chickens free range. For some reason, a rooster heads my way and has been waking me up crowing between 3 and 4 in the morning all summer. I’ve complained to him about it and he basically just shrugs his shoulders. The little bastard was crowing in my yard this morning, so I shot the fucker with a .44 magnum and deposited what was left of the carcass on the hood of the neighbors truck on my way to work. Very much looking forward to that conversation if he has the stones. 
 

Hens are cool, roosters suck. 

Based on some of your stories I think I’ve read, hopefully this is not a neighbor that will try to shoot you. 
 

Our roosters stay in our yard (well except the time the coyote got in). They only wake me 🤦‍♂️

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22 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

Based on some of your stories I think I’ve read, hopefully this is not a neighbor that will try to shoot you. 
 

Our roosters stay in our yard (well except the time the coyote got in). They only wake me 🤦‍♂️

Nah, this is another idiot that moved in recently. It’ll be their first winter. I doubt they make it. 
 

Update on my psycho neighbor…I heard through the grapevine he has severe heart failure (insert that’s a shame gif). I’ve been wondering why I haven’t seen him around all summer. 

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