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    2 broody hens

    Ruth has been sitting 5 eggs for 12 days now. This evening I found Wednesday sitting on the eggs. She has them nicely covered and is tight on the nest. She had been acting broody for a week or so. Wednesday is only a year old and I think would be a terrible mother. Ruth is 5 yrs old and...
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    Trying again with my broody hen.

    Well Ruth is broody again. After our loss of her babies last year I was reluctant to give it another go. My plan was to let her sit a couple of weeks then go buy some chicks. My thought was those chicks would be stronger and already on feed and water and she could just jump into motherhood...
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    Tending to your flock in bad weather

    The weather is bad all over today the mid west and south. Did anybody else have to run across the yard in muck boots with eggs in your pocket trying not to get struck by lightning? Yeah me too.
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    Young rooster behaving badly

    So this happend this morning. ZZ the 7 month old rooster attacked Martha my 5 yr old PBR head hen. They had been sparing off and on for a couple of months with ZZ always backing down. A couple of weeks ago Martha started a hard molt and is not feeling real great. ZZ would no longer let her...
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    What did we do wrong?

    I say we as in the broody hen and me. My 4yr old BA has been broody off and on her whole life. This year, we were "blessed" with an accidental rooster in my purchase of 7 spring chicks. ZZ had been doing his job so when Ruth went broody again I set 5 eggs under her. She is a good broody...
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    Young EE cockrell

    My boy ZZ is 14 wks old. He was bought at the feed store as a pullet of course. My flock has 5 mature ladies ages 5-2 and 6 ,14 wk old young ladies that were raised with him. My question is this. How will he learn to be a good rooster with no role models to show him? He was being mean...
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    Chicks, Hens, Cockrell

    The chicks are 8wks old and have half a bag of medicated starter I also have half a bag of layer feed. The Cockrell is a chick. I've been mixing the food until it's gone. My next food do I go ahead and get all flock? I don't want to hurt my little guy. The ladies have oyster shell...
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    First night of integration

    Tonight was the first night the babies and the ladies were together without a barrier in the coop. The babies are 7 wks old and have been in the coop with a barrier for two weeks. This morning after the ladies had left the run into the yard we took the barrier down. It took a little while but...
  9. KyCoop

    Americana roo?

    5 wks old, bought at feed store as a pullet. These are my first little chicks bought and I've read americana are very hard to sex. This one stands tall and has crazy long legs.
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    Horned owl (nothing bad happened)

    I was out feeding and watering around 645 I was talking to the babies in the coop and the ladies were out in the chicken yard. All of a sudden the crows start going off. I look around and there is the biggest owl I've ever seen in a tree about 30 yards away! That thing was ginormous! I do a...
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    Weaning babies off light

    So I've been brooding my first chicks in my spare bedroom for almost 5 wks now. Everything had gone well so far. The plan is to move them to the coop this weekend. I'm currently weaning them off the heat light. It's 73 degrees in my house and everyone is almost fully feathered. The first...
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    Getting ready for integration. Need your opinion.

    My 7 chicks are growing fast and I'm starting my plan for their integration into my now small flock of 5 ladies. I got the babies the same day but I believe they range in age from 3-6 wks old. The bigger babies are starting to get bored with the whole brooder thing. The question is this...
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    Hawk, but with a twist.

    So this happened. I have hawk string over my entire huge chicken yard. The other day my husband looked out and saw a hawk on the ground in the chicken yard. The girls were just standing together in a group looking at it. Like, what ya gonna do now hawk? You gonna try and eat us all hawk...
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    First time with chicks

    Yall I need some help. I just got some chicks for the first time! I got the chick starter kit they had at the store and 7 precious peeps. 1 buff orby 1 partridge rock 1 splash gem 2 mystic marans and 2 ee. The splash has dried poo on her butt. What do I do? She is so so tiny I'm afraid...
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    Ruth the good hen

    Hello fellow chicken folks. Can I just brag on my good hen for a sec. I have a 3 yr old Black Australorp named Ruth and she is second in command. Ive always known she is a good hen from how she was a couple of years ago when I had another hen that we suspected to have had a stroke. She had...
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    Bantam roo with full size hens

    Ya'll I need your advice. I have a flock of 9 ladies ages 3 yrs old and 1 yr old. My neighbor across the street has bantams. They are the cutest things and I decided I wanted some too. Of course he has several roosters he can't get rehomed but only 2 hens he would give me. The only time I...
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    UGH egg eating! But with a twist.

    So I have 9 girls. 2 of which are white leghorns 3 yrs old. Betty and Rose. A couple of months ago Rose was feeling poorly and started laying soft shell and fairy eggs. Betty started eating said eggs. Nobody else's just Rose. Well after a couple of weeks she started feeling better but had...
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    Pine pellet / sawdust litter in the coop.

    OK so out of sheer desperation I had to change out my pine shavings for pine pellets in my coop and it is working fantastic so far. I'm a scooper and that was causing a huge problem with my over flowing compost pile. I don't have acres and acres of land. I have a good size yard but ran out of...
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    WIND! well that happened

    So Mother nature decided my run didn't need a roof. Standing at the kitchen window I watch the wind lift the roof off. The girls are fine, scared but fine. The run is completely enclosed over the top to the bottom with HWC so no worry about predators. I'm thankful we went to the time and...
  20. KyCoop

    Migrating Hawks?

    So I stepped outside minute ago and saw what I think was a flock , 70 or so hawks I think. It was getting dark so I could not see very well but the size and shape were about right. We live in a very popular area for migrating birds of all kinds. I've even seen the Sandhill cranes! But I've...
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