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Our run is about 2500 square feet and we free range part of the day. Mom is all over the place and would not wait for her. We also have 20 teenagers that would torture the chick if she wasn't with mom. I think I will have the kennel in the run by their waterer during the day as chickens come and...

Last night I heard momma hen screaming her head off so I ran outside and saw her out in the field chasing a hawk. She came back still screaming. Only found one of her six chicks. A bit later I heard peeping and watched a second chick run to her momma from under a bush. About an hour later three...

My daughter was visiting with her family and dog and the dog killed one of our pullets. We were so sad and mad. No fun.

Ever heard of this before? We adopted 2 4 week old chicks from a friend who could not take care of them because their mom was taken by a Fox or coyote. We put them in the pen with the 11 week olds and adults, but provided them with numerous places to hide in that the bigger chicks could not get...

Yes less than 30 minutes.

Very briefly. She thought they were to be gathered and picked them up, realized that might be for hatching, and put them back.

A neighbor picked up and then returned all the eggs under the broody. They are due to hatch on the 13. Are they destroyed?

A few more pics...

Been off the thread for a bit...that's code for "I had a spell of depression." I got 3 4 week old chicks 2 weeks ago from a friend who lost the momma hen to a predator. One little pullet was found unconsious and frozen outside without mom at a day or two old and my friend put her back under mom...

Anyone feed fermented feed? Lately I have been getting a little yeast smell and wondering why.

Weird!

I never expected this...so I impulsively bought these 5 week old Easter Eggers. I am not currently set up to quarantine and I know I should have quarantined. My husband, also a victim of chicken math, convinced me that the risk was small and therefore worth it. I'm having a little regret but...

I have a little barred rock that definitely looks like a boy....

I will remember your offer!

Chicken math. I just foolishly bought 4 Easter Eggers. And the guy threw in a barred rock for free because we mentioned we hoped we had a rooster in our bunch of 19 chicks .... None of which are showing any signs of being cockerels. We need to build a greenhouse off the chicken porch for winter...

Started feeding my chicks fermented grain. They love it. After gorging this morning they all went to roost and one little girl had a crop so full she couldn't get up on the roost.

Two nights ago the 7 week old chicks seemed to decide that the big girl coop was the place to be for the night. For about a week their playpen fence has been down since they have been flying over it anyway. The hens don't seem to mind. So I sat down in the coop in the evening to observe and make...

So there was a lot of confusion and the chicks split into 3 groups: shed chicks, coop chicks, and the ones who stay up late catching bugs. I haven't trained them to come to me yet, which is dumb, because I can't chase them (they don't run from me) and of course picking up one or two at a time is...

The 6 week old chicks have been in the shed with a light at night for 2 weeks. They started escaping the playpen and wandering the big girl pen and the hens don't seem to care. Yesterday the chicks discovered the big girl coop and today they moved in....I'm curious to see how this evening gets...

This is the second summer of chicken owning. I have a large chicken pen, 800 square feet, that previously was an overgrown no-man's-land between the yard and pasture, with pine trees/poplar/hay/raspberries/etc...the hens hang out in there a lot and usually head out to free range a couple times a...