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He would approach her in attack mode, puffed up and aggressive. She would react and stand her ground and the fight was on! He didn't even get more than a few feathers out of her before I intervened. Normally I would stand back and watch, letting them figure it out themselves, but he is a larger...

He is a new rooster and was introduced into the flock after she had gone broody. They have free ranged together most days but yesterday he decided to go after her, rearing up and in fight stance. She didn't help matters much as she was protecting the chicks. I think it was more of a pecking...

We free ranged the whole flock today and the rooster didn't seem to like it. I think it will take a few more days before everyone is happy. I may just move the make shift coop into the run for a while and see how that goes. We never had a broody hen before and wasn't quite sure how it would go...

We free range everyone for most of the day. Momma seems to keep the chicks at bay and mostly away from the others. Our rooster is young only about 5 months and isn't aggressive at all. I would love to get them all in one coop and run before winter fully hits.

We had a hen go broody outside the coop and run. We allowed her to hatch out her brood, and took all but two chicks, her first brood, we wanted to make sure she would be a good mother, plus we have enough chicks in our back yard. We built a makeshift run and coop around her to keep her safe from...

Ok everyone. We have tried everything we can think of. And nothing seems to be working. Hoping in time it will get better, but we won't keep it if it won't have a decent life. So sad right now, but that's how these things go. We are taking them off the news paper as soon as possible. We had...

We are hatching eggs in an incubator. Late Yesterday we had a chick hatch and one of its legs seems to be bad. Chick has it stretched out behind her and is dragging it while it moves around. Can I help it in any way?

Fingers crossed. But this hatch will be spread out over the next few days. It took us a few days to fill the incubator out of our coop.

Chick update. 7 out of 18 eggs have hatched, 3 are trying. The first 4 have been moved to the brooder box and have started eating. My kids are extremely excited.

Lol she is horrding them from the other chickens. She is definitely the boss out there. Our roo doesn't even mess with her.

Thank you. I will try and find some kind of screen or something to put over the water container as well as some clean rocks in the bottom.

2 of our 18 eggs have hatched in the past hour or so. How long do we need to wait to take them out of the incubator and into a warm broody box? I'm assuming wait till dry, but we have an open container of water in our homemade incubator and I worry they may fall into the water.

Thanks I think your right. Looks just like her. We are her second owners and have some eggs about to hatch of hers. Nice to put a breed to our mixed flock.

Please excuse our mess. It's canning season and the run needs cleaned! All in due time!