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My broody has gotten nutty today, she has stepped on and crushed her 20 day old eggs. I can still see life but a lot of shell is gone. HELP! :(

:( I don't know what went wrong this morning, I have gone out to discover that my Mama hen has crushed her 3 day 20 eggs shells...one was out and is barely alive, she keeps getting up off them. I have done nothing to bother her in the past 3.5 weeks other than food and water given to her. She...

I have not had a roo the entire 1.5 years I have had girls...lost one earlier this month to a hawk....was given a BEAUTIFUL rooster, 5 months old.....he is terrified of the hens! :( I hope he will grow up and become a man shortly...lol....he's not a protector when they are after him in the yard...

Talk to me about your roosters...I have lost 1 girl this afternoon...maybe 2, can not locate another....I am now rooster shopping. Please respond and advise. Thanks!

My Olivia, a 1.5 yr. old RSL, as of last night, has 4 new babies...I got her (4) 3 day old Dominques...they are precious! We did the 'bait and switch' late last night..she is being an excellent Mom! :) She has been broody for almost 8 weeks....we did get some fertilized eggs, but the snake got...

:( I have a flock of 22 total, 14 of which are about 1.5 years old....the other 8 are about 5months old...the 8 are laying their pullet eggs faithfully.....the 14 1 1/2 yr. olds are really not doing as well....everyone is eating the same laying feed...they get to free range from about 12-8...

Okay, a few weeks ago,I posted about a broody hen, we got her 8 eggs, and she was doing well.....this past week, discovered a snake in the hen house, he had obviously helped himself to eggs...we have 3 left.......she has been sitting faithfully on them....either today or tommorrow will be day...

:( The thread title should state it all.......as you know from my previous post, I had gotten my Olivia, a 1 1/2 yr. old RSL, 8 eggs from a friend, who has 8 hens and 2 roos......well, we put them all under her.....she only has 3 left...I don't know what has happened to the others....she is...

:) I have FINALLY found someone with FERTILE eggs! My broody RSL is going to be a Mama if nothing happens! I have so many questions.... MAIN ONE: Do I need to leave her in the coop with her sisters to hatch? I have 14 grown girls and 8 more that are going to be introduced in about a...

Our broody girl is just insistent on becoming a Mom.....dh has talked me to letting her sit on some eggs....I am thinking 2......I have 8 that are almost 3 months old, and 14 big girls....this is a first for me! Please enlighten me as to what I need to do for her...she is staying in her nest box...

I have a 1.5 year old Red Sex Link who has gone broody and that is putting it mildly, lol.......she refuses to leave the house, and yesterday , she took it upon herself to fly to the top of the nesting boxes and SAT THERE for HOURS. With the lid closed. She just sat there. All fluffed up and mad...

This is also posted in the Egg Behaviors forum.....I have a very sick chicken, not sure what's going on with her.....she is not well, is laying broken eggs...has one possibly broken inside of her? We have had 2 tornados touch down @ our home on Friday night.....so I have not been able to pay as...

The past few days have left me and my family busy with cleanup after a recent natural disaster, so I didn't notice this before now...My daughter brought it to my attention yesterday, however. One of my Red Sex Link hens has a very nasty rear, and yesterday laid an egg that had a few spots of...

I am planning my spring/summer garden...and this year, I have my girls.....who LOVE to be in the yard.......those who have gardens and chickens, how do you manage? Do they not eat everything in the garden? :) Just looking for ideas...and dh is already 'whining' for lack of a better word, when I...

I have a white leghorn, who up until the past week, has been fine...she is still eating,drinking, pooping and laid her eggs this past week....we have had brutal temps here in Eastern NC.....she seems to be the only one who can not tolerate them...I am talking beyond freezing.....she started out...

HI, we lost our first girl to the UPS truck on Monday....killed instantly..unfortunately, there was another one with her in the road....she has a broken wing , feathers are hanging down, and feathers are gone off her leg...she doesn't appear to have any bloody places that the skin is broken..but...

Okay, we have one white Leghorn, the other 13 are Golden Comets and Red Sexlinks....they have been laying great....the leghorn the past 3 days has started flying out, she does fly...that is another story....and I can not find ANY of her eggs...she has done a great job of hiding them. :( We are...

My little white Orpington, Wouiser ( think 'Steele Magnolias', Shirley McLaine), flew out of the pen this morning...she decided that she needed a new place to lay her EGGS...she laid #2# eggs in dh's old Ford tractor seat! If I had not seen this, I would have thought I was crazy..she had not...

Okay, my girls have been doing the 'free range' thing for about 4 weeks now, they get time in the yard anywhere from 3-6 hours a day...I went out just a few minutes ago to collect eggs...and a lot of them have their 'goiters' from yesterday! Either they have seriously chowed down this am on...

Okay, so I have been doing a little 'flock watching'...actually a lot....I have found my bully in my flock...she has injured my Golden Comet....the said injured bird is by herself in a private house....she gets outside time before the rest of the group does...about a 3 hour window....yesterday...