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Hi Everyone, Out of our newest batch of chickens, we have 1 and sometimes 3 chickens who seem to prefer to spend the night on top of one of the coops instead of inside. All winter we have physically put them inside every night, where they stayed until morning. Now that the weather has...

after baby chicks are accepted by a broody hen, can I add more in a couple of days?

I have a very broody cochin hen. Do you think she'll accept 2 day old chicks (mixed breeds) from a breeder? Thanks

Our 2-year-old Americana hen appears to be egg-bound. This started yesterday morning. All the other hens are fine. Yesterday, we gave her an Epson salts sitz-bath, gently massaged her abdomen, put Vaseline around her vent, tried to make sure she drank some water… nothing has worked. This...

My husband and I started our flock about 3 years ago when someone left two hens on our (long) driveway. I put ads in the newspapers hoping to return them to their owners, but no one claimed them. Later, the feed store said it was common for people to dump unwanted birds that way. We...

This morning we found that our beautiful Cochin Rooster passed overnight in his coop. There have been no signs of ill health. He was fine yesterday and the rest of the flock (10 hens) all seem fine. Their run is large, fully fenced with chain-link fencing and a solid roof, so no predators...

I've been enjoying this wonderful forum for the last couple of years, which coincidentally is how long we've had chickens. :) In our case, chickens found us instead of the other way around, though I always wanted chickens. One day, someone abandoned two chickens at the end of our long...

We have a bullied, sweet Barred Cochin hen. She is now issolated because we can't figure out who is the bully. I'm wondering if I can put two day old baby cochin chicks under her at night, so she can raise them as her own flock?

Hello Everyone, I'm fairly new to raising chickens. We've only had them for a little over a year now. It all started when someone dumped two hens at the end of our driveway. Of course we rescued them, built them a coop and enclosure and started on our journey to learn as much as we could...