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For those with experience with broody cochins... I have a banty cochin hen who is 16 months old. She went broody at 7 months and raised 3 babies. Mothered them for a little over 3 months. Then she started laying...for about 2 weeks and went broody. Silly me was excited. Let her hatch 5 of her...

I let my birds free range daily. They have access to their coop and mostly covered run. There are also some good size palo verde trees that they use for shade and today for protection. This morning I let the birds out as normal about 5:30 and then took my daughter to tennis. While I was...

There have been several posts about raising single chicks, so I thought I would share ours. Myra hatched out late (day 24 almost 25) and mom had already gotten off the nest with the others that hatched day 20-21. Here she is just hatched with lots of help since she had lots of membrane dried...

Background: eggs under 2 broody hens, one left nest other took them all in. Was a terrible hatch and only had 3 survived. Then on Day 24 (others hatched day 20-21) we had one chirping in an egg that was slated to be tossed- quickly put it on heating pad and 24 hours later we had a chick...

Chick can't walk. It is only 17 hours after hatch and it had to be helped out. Broody got off the nest and eggs went cold---went to throw out and hear chirping so we put it on warm washlothes and heating pad and it hatched. (day 24) She is lively and loud but cant stand yet. Has started what...

Hen was on eggs, 21 days was Thursday. First one hatched out on Wednesday noonish. Had some more wednesday and Thursday and then noonish on Friday she got up and moved nest and babies and was doen with eggs. When she has done this in the past there were never any babies in the eggs she left...

It all started pretty normal...hen goes broody and I give her eggs. She has done it before so no big deal until another goes broody and I give some to her...mistake. She was the worsy broody ever-got up way to many times each day and was too willing to let others sit on them for her and she...

So nine weeks ago my bantam cochin hatched out 6 eggs that I gave her when she went broody and wouldn't quit. It was our first attempt at such an endeavor so we gave her the only fertile eggs we found at the time which happened to be 5 BR and 1 RIR. Important to note...they were not bantam...

Made lunch from leftover chicken last night (roasted a whole chicken) and had my son clean up. He has a bright idea to give the chicken carcass to our girls. he comes running back in to tell me that they are devouring it and really seem to enjoy it Well I have to go and check myself and...

So my ds comes in this morning and says he can't find Honey. Well. I let them out in the garden this morning but did not pay attention to who was where since it was raining. So off we go out to look for her thinking she might have gotten out of the garden (an everyday occurance) or even...

I have a bantam cochin that hatched out some BR babies two weeks ago (15 days to be exact). She is an excellent mama but I think I have to confess I am a little concerned about her decision tonight to take the wee little ones to bed with the big girls. The coop has an upstairs and a...

A teacher at my daughters school hatched out eggs last spring (March) and my kiddos got 4 of them. 2 roos that had to be rehomed (they were very pretty but also very loud) city says no roos. So we are left with 2 small black chickens. Someone said they thought they were cochins. You all seem...

So DS thinks he has 3 girls and 1 roo. Thought I would check and see what you guys think. His reasoning is that 3 of them are already developing tail feathers and the 4th one is not. We originally hatched out 6 but lost 2--literally they just vanished one afternoon. The eggs came from a farm...

So we have been lurking here for some time learning lots about our chickens. Started with 4 chicks in March and now up to 7 hens-with a couple actually laying for us We had one go broody little over a month ago and after staying up way to late reading all about what to do.....we bought her...