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Hi All - I'm trying not to rage against our hens. They left their clutch -- due to hatch in three days -- sometime between last night 9 ish and this morning 10:30ish. The eggs were cool when I found them at 10:30, so they were likely left unattended for at least an hour or so. We are in...

Our ultra broody cochin/silkie bantams are on their first and second clutch (mix of 2 moms on their second clutch and their 2 teens on their first clutch). Six of eleven eggs have hatched, but we just found two dead...one that came out of its egg today and one that came out of its egg two days...

Hi all - We have two very broody cochin/silkie bantam hens who have been sitting on a handful of failed eggs for about 30 days now. They are so dutiful and i'm thankful, but it seems time to remove the eggs. Any nuance here or should I just go right in and take them? Thanks, Maggie

Hi All - Man are our two bantam cochin/silkie hens broody little beasts. They hatched out a clutch (their first) about 5 months ago and are now back at it! We aren't ready for more chickens, but I don't have the heart to break them of such a strong urge/instinct. So, we'll just make way for the...

So our chick that we think has crookneck is getting worse. It is day three of him not being able to hold his head up except to eat. It is fully upside down and he can only walk backwards. Now my husband says he's scratching his head and face with his legs and wings, breaking off feathers. He is...

Hi All - My husband found one of our chicks with Crookneck this a.m., or at least that is what we think he/she has. He is only about 2 months old, one of five chicks living with his dada and mamas and two other bantam silkie/cochin chickens. Nice flock. Nice rooster. But today the hens were...

Hi All - My two hens just hatched their first clutch. SO CUTE! I'm wondering when I should expect them to start laying daily eggs again. Any ideas? Maggie

++Second Update for those who are interested++ Well sadly I must report that this little chicky was found dead this a.m. in our coop. It had lived happily with its mamas for the last few days, growing bigger and eating and drinking just fine. The coop came open last night and this morning I...

Hi there - I guess I'm going "natural" with the way I'm handling this first batch of eggs our hen is hatching as I write. While she went broody, I left her in the coop with the rest of the crew (total 4 bantam silkie/cochins, very mellow rooster) and was so pleased when our other hen decided she...

Hi all - Just wanted to share thta I think some of the eggs our broody hens have been sitting on have hatched. When we went to water them this a.m., we heard little faint peeps from the hens' direction. Do brandnew chicks make peeping sounds? We didn't see anything and we didn't want to move...

morning - i've been having to clean out my broody's nest because other hens keep laying eggs to her. I marked the original clutch but yesterdya i guess i missed the mark on an egg and brought it in thinking it was an extra. i put it in the fridge where it stayed for over 24 hours. so this mrnig...

Hi all - I've gotten some great help lately with our broody hen, Juniper, who for her first time is sitting on about 9 eggs. If everything goes well, I expect a hatch at the end of November/early December. But the place where she and our chickens choose to roost (not in the enclosed, ventilated...

Hi there - my hen, juniper, a bantam silkie/cochin cross is broody for her first time. She is on day 7 of sitting on what I thought was only 6 eggs. But when she got out this a.m. for her daily drink/walk/dusting i peeked in and saw 9 eggs. I don't know if she laid some more eggs or if one of...

Hi All - As the weather cools here in New Mexico, I'm worried about my chickens because they refuse to go into their coop to sleep, choosing instead to sleep in the open roost they used in the hot months. In the picture the open roost area is to the left on the groud. All four of our bantam...

My bantam silkie/cochin hen has been laying eggs for only three weeks now (my frist experience with eggs) and I was told not to expect her to have brooding instincts until she is older. But this morning I couldn't find her in my yard and lo and behold she was in sitting in her little nest area...

Hi all - How excited we were to find an egg - our first - in our chicken area this morning. I thought our freshly minted hen would be sitting on it, but she's not. She's running around the yard with her brothers. They are all bantam silkie/cochin crosses about 6 months old. I'm worried that she...

Hi All - This chicken arrived at my mother's trailer and she's been hanging around. They've named her Noodle. She looks young to me and my first very novice guess at her breed was an Easter Egger. But her legs look white. And those tail feathers have me stumped. She's obviously had some serious...

Our 7-month-old bantam chochin/silkie roo, Franklin, is a perfect alarm clock, crowing at about 6:15 a.m. (mountain time zone) for about 30 min. straight. He's been slowly pushing his first crow later as the sunrise gets later with Fall just around the corner. I thought it might be fun to see...

I've been studying the behavior of our four chickens trying to decipher pecks and chasing and eating order and such. I'm trying to find the social rules of a flock. I know there is generally a head roo. Is there always a head hen? Do the rest of the chickens normally wait until the roo eats...

I figured when it starts raining our flock, out free ranging in the yard, would head to the coop. But they just stand out in the rain. Is this normal? Do I need to round them up into the coop when it rains? I live in New Mexico where the rain storms are short, but they can be heavy. I don't want...