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I bet it's a lot quieter around your place now, having that many hormonal teenagers can really raise a ruckus

My favorite part of having a broody hen is those little faces peeking out from the feathers. And also not having to take care of chicks :D

Just go on your instinct, and don't look back. These things need to be done, not the best part of chicken keeping but definitely a part.

Girls of course!

5 little cuties. 2 eggs pipped but not hatched. All girls of course! I think the first 2 might both be boys :(

Hatch day here, one out and two pipped :fl

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I've had SS boys sneak in under the radar until they were surprisingly old :hmm

We feed our adult chickens a wide variety of foods, including our leftovers. However, complicated to digest, nutritionally unbalanced foods like cheese may not be a great early food for chicks. Their digestive tracts are not really ready for much of a challenge. Even things like grapes, high in...

Looks fine. So happy you had a decent hatch from shipped eggs. I also had one that pipped that did not progress, died in the egg.

Chick Hatch Football

You say Tamar was off the nest - were the eggs cold? You might consider putting all of them under the other hen, they may still hatch if properly sat upon

Here's a pair of overachievers that we saw on our walk this morning - 23!

My sister went to set up her brooder the other day, looked inside and found this: 25 eggs! :gig She had it covered but there was a little 4x4 opening top and this little girl could squeak in. She candled and didn't see any development. So she gave her the warmest 10 and took the rest away.

They love being outside in the grass and the Sun

I have them in a large cardboard box at my office. I would put them in my small coop but I have eggs in the incubator and I'm hoping to put everybody in together if any hatch, so I'm just going to keep them down there until hopefully that happens. They have a heat plate, and I use puppy pads for...

Happily catching ants, scared by big noises and they come running up and get underneath me like I'm a hen 😆

I am in a constant state of denial where it comes to chicks. They are all pullets until clearly proven otherwise.

I would pick a good broody over an incubator every day. You might want to let her set for a few days and make sure she sticks to some dummy eggs first.

Michigan has put commercial Poultry and Dairy farms on lockdown, with no exhibitions, due to HPAI, so no shipping eggs for a while I'm afraid