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Great way to check-in on the community and get more interaction @NifTy-Chicken👍 I’ve been trudging through some slop…Kept getting sick and this year in particular has been brutal. WFH full time, 2 kids 5year old and 1 year, 10 chickens, a dog, and 125 gallon fish tank… Finally I had an...

1 and 4 are definitely cockerels. They both started trying to crow. Their teenager voices cracked me up. They’ve gone to go live on a ranch/farm. I should have taken a new picture first. #4 is quite handsome he is growing a beard/muff like mutton chops. I wish I could have kept him. The other 3...

I’m curious on what you all think the breed and sex of these chicks may be. They are barnyard mixes that my broody hen hatched from a local farmer. They are currently 8.5 weeks old. I think at least two are cockerels. One is for sure a cockerel. He just started trying to crow. Strangest sound...

Woah! She certainly found a chicken hack for not laying eggs. 😂 I was bummed when my broody ditched her 3 day old chick for a nest full of eggs. I was hoping she’d be a chicken mamma but she just wanted to sit on eggs. thank you for the supplemental feed suggestions!

Thanks @Ebony Rose I didn’t think of using sardines. I have tons in my pantry. 👍

Thanks for the reply and insight, @azygous. So, there is no hope of her growing out of this and every few months I’ll have to cage her…Bummer.

Well I’ve read a ton of threads on here about other broody hens. I’m not particularly hopeful for a solution but here’s my hen’s story. It is a long one… sparknotes version: young hen broody many times won’t stop despite every intervention possible and her health is compromised due to her...