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Two broody hens are fighting over a clitch of eggs, the invading hen will push the mama off the nest and lay. Should I put invader in a xage? Or the mama to protect her eggs from the other hen and aggressive rooster?

This morning I went out to feed the chickens and check on my broody hens eggs. One egg was completely missing, no shell. There was a big pile of dark feces where the egg was and later inspecting the area I found a tiny bit of yolk. After searching everywhere I found nothing. The rooster has...

So I have a hen that has laid three eggs, I want to hatch these three eggs under her but she has laid a fourth egg, can I remove this egg? Or will that send her into a berserk mode and lose the other eggs? Also, what do I need to know and do for when the eggs hatch? Will they eat Layer food...

Title says it all. I'm letting a hen hatch three eggs since no one collected them the past week while I was showing at the fair. If the eggs are fertile they will be polish/ not sure what the hen is, she is black with a tiny barely a bump size comb. I want to clean the coop (Or at least the egg...

I'm soon going to buy a few Mille Fleur chicks, having read about them I learned that the roosters are pretty aggressive, plus I already have a small rooster(Old English Game Bantam) and he probably wouldn't like a big fat rooster attacking him. So, is there any way to tell if a young chicken...

I have three OEGB's, 2 hens and a rooster, and one of the hens has a clear slime coming from her mouth, it seemingly had food chunks in it, and she is acting odd, I offered her some feed and she just passed it, the other two chickens would peck at the slime, and the rooster sneezes once a day...

I've been keeping chickens for a few years now, on and off. Most of my chickens are egg hens. I recently bought 3 show chickens, Old English Bantams, one rooster and two hens. (The rooster is my profile picture) They are currently living in a cage in my down stairs kitchen, while I finish...