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She's been Broody for a week or two. I pretty much have to force her out of the box a couple times a day just so she'll go eat some food and get some water I just gently pick her up and bring her out and around into the pen. Yeah my son is 6, hes pretty upset, it's not the first time we've had a...

Shes been broody for a week or 2.

I'm hoping someone can help me, one of my chickens escaped today while I was in the shower and my dog killed her. It was one of my son's favorites and now he wants to get a new chicken. I do have a hen that has gone broody, but I'm concerned about putting a day old in with her with the other...

So maybe starting them inside to get used to people and dogs while watching for her to go broody might be a good plan.? My son turned 5 in Nov and he has been asking me when we are getting some new chicks because he really enjoying watching the last ones grow up but he was too young to really...

Culling would be a last resort, I would like to do it with the least amount of pain in the assery as possible. 😆 There is no breaking her of her broodiness, I've tried it all. So I just let her do her thing, after I am pretty sure all eggs of the day are layed, I go and gently pull her out and...

With my current flock of hens I started out with 4 Rhode island reds, they are just turning 2. I lost one during the summer and another one just before it started to snow here. The remaining 2 just seem lonely and I would like to get a couple new chicks, probably different breed, just because...

How is the linoleum working out? The house we bought already had a chicken coop but I have a bunch of linoleum that was left here and was thinking about using that on the bottom of the coop because with our last round of chickens we were having trouble with the wood getting wet from the...