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I have two broody hens in my small goat shed. Their nesting boxes are on the storage side of the shed, where the goats and alpaca can't reach, but the hens can fly over the gate. Twice now I have found eggs from one of the nesting boxes on the floor on the animal-only side of the shed and...

I've got an adopted hen of unknown age. I've had her about a year. She's lower on the pecking order in my flock of 13 hens, she gets a few extra head pecks from the others resulting in a slight loss of feathers, but nothing huge. She's never been very social, often preferring to be by...

I have a rooster problem. I have nine hens over a year old. Then a rooster and three hens that are about 9 mos. old. The rooster has begun to assert his domination over the flock. All is mostly well. Except for one older hen. And it's not just the rooster. When he goes after her, many of...

I just adopted a hen today from a neighbor. She was giving Sofia away because she thought Sofia was lonely. She's been by herself for a while. This is only night one, but she refused to go to either of the roost areas - she's all by herself on a stick roost in the run. I tried to put her on...

I have some decisions to make about an upgrade to our coop/run/goat shed and I have a question about where feeders should be placed. I have an established chicken coop/run for my nine hens and one pullet. I added four chicks three weeks ago to the family and they've integrated nicely. They...

Hi All, I've got a mama hen with a week old foster chick. She's not a particularly good mama (first time) but she's learning Anyway, even though I put chick feed close to the nesting box where she and the baby are camped out, she takes the little one out into the run and is showing her how...

Little Liberty was hatched in one of the nesting boxes on the 4th of July. (My meanest hen Maude went broody so I got six fertilized eggs for her.) Unfortunately, Liberty is an only child. I decided my parenting style this time around would be "less is best". But since the nine hens have...

So my crazy broody hen Maude has been the most patient girl in the world sitting on six eggs...me, not so much. Two eggs hatched on the 4th of July (day 20). One chick (Liberty, shown here) made it. Don't know what happened with the other one - it looked perfect. One egg was bad. So...

I've got a good mama sitting on eggs in the coop now. She took up residence in one of the four nesting boxes a little over two weeks ago and I got her six fertilized eggs, so I've got about a week to go to see if we (she) was successful. She was my least friendly hen and I believe at the top...

I have ten ladies that I raised since they came in the mail in a little box, cheeping like crazy. I just lost my first. Here's the story. Not many of my friends can understand, but I bet you can... http://www.justtherightthings.com/2012/06/it-was-a-good-day/

I know they both lay brown eggs....this is Maude... And below is Hermione... Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

We've got a wicked snowstorm raging here in Colorado. When I shoveled out to the coop to wish the ladies good morning, they were looking like, "This white stuff again - you've gotta be kidding me!" But after a breakfast of some warm oatmeal (them, not me) I shoveled out the run for them...

I've got an assorted variety of beautiful ladies - ten in all. This one, Maude, just became an aggressive butt feather plucker. She eats every single feather she plucks. Now two of the ladies have bare butts. We've had snow on the ground and very cold nighttime temperatures for about ten...

I've got 10 hens, all 4 months 8 days old and they just started laying! I'm so proud! I didn't even have the nesting boxes in the coop yet. So of course the first egg was laid on the roost and fell to the poop board. Quickly installed nesting boxes that day with straw and golf balls. Next...

Hi all, First, thanks for being such a wonderful source of information - I'm a little obsessed with building just the right home for my ten new chicks! I have a few questions before I build the coop walls. The run is complete Here's a pic. As you can see, it's tucked in around a large...