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First question: I have an acre of land surrounded by a 6' solid fence. Will the hens be content to stay within the acre w/the chickens or will they hop the fence. I plan on getting two as keets and my broody orpington raising them. My neighbors have been tolerant of the chickens but I don't...

I have four Orpingtons and one has her neck missing. Not bare but it looks like she's being pecked. Once in a while I hear a squack and a "chest bump" between two of them. What should I do????????????? I do not want to lose her. They have PLENTY OF ROOM to free range... 1/4 acre just for them...

I have several orpingtons and each morning (early) I find extremely large excretements in the paddock. I know my "big girl" is one of the worse culprits. There is normal sized droppings in the coop under their roost each morning.... but this is after they leave the coop to go free range. Good...

I believe my Orp fell from her roost two nights ago. Allot of ruckus that night. She is now limping and not eating/drinking. I set her back into the coop and she limped/hobbled into one of the egg boxes where she remains right now. When my DH comes home I will check her out better but she is...

Thanks for all the help girls! Really appreciate it! I already have five Orps and would love to have some Silkies for my granddaughters. Any more thoughts?

I have a very broody Orpington. 3 times this summer. We feel so sorry for her so we are planning on building a brooder coop for her and let her do her thing. However I do not want the 50/50 chance of fertilized eggs. So we thought we would take away her eggs after 21 days and give her two day...

Thanks for the suggestions and the websites. I will look into all of this!

I have! Although we have an acre of property... I utilize 1/4 of an acre that runs along side my neighbors property with Arborvitae bushes for my coop run and paddock. The chickens love it due to the fact that their is plenty of room to range. I have five Orpingtons hens in there. I also have...

I use "stall dry" for horses mixed in with my pine shavings in the coop. It clumps everything together and makes it very easy to clean. Get a kitty litter spoon and you can clean easily or a rack. I do not use it in the nesting boxes only shavings. Someone on this forum recommended the stall...

Can anyone tell me where to purchase a quality automatic coop door opener?

Coop and run...additional run beyond paddock w/shed. Plenty of room to free range and shade themselves under the trampoline and nestle under the forsythia. Four Black Orpington pullets and one Blue Hen! Wonderful birds!

I just went through this broody stage. Six weeks my orpington sat on an empty nest. The gals on this forum said NOT to give her eggs or the broodiness will continue. Options: let her sit on eggs and then switch them for a few DAY OLD CHICKS...ONLY DAY OLD CHICKS. break the...

Thanks all for the replies. It has been 6 FULL WEEKS OF THIS WITH NO LETTING UP IN SIGHT. Tomorrow I am overnighting two female chicks for (day old) for her to sit on. If they do not work out I have someone who will take them. Anyway, next year my DH is building me a separate brooding coop for...

Ok, that is what I think I have to resort to. She is a Blue orpington, no rooster and VERY determined to be a mother. I was just researching availability of overnighting two chicks within the next two days. problem is I just got two BO pullets with her in the coop. But I will set Mom and chicks...

My hen has been broody for close to 6 weeks. Although I take her out of the box several times a day and free range her away from the coop and make her eat /drink it is very little. She paces back and forth to go back into the coop. Tonight she just wanted back in. No eating and just a few...

They should be the same size...or laying. Your's are still too young. Your introducing trouble.

My girl has been broody for at least a month now with an occasional egg here and there. I lift her off her nest twice/day so she will eat and drink. If I put some eggs under her will this expedite the broodiness?

I have a RIR roo and can not keep it. Any suggestions on how to find it a new home or simply just cull it.

I took CarolinaSculpture's suggestion with covering the nest boxes and it worked! My orpington has been EXTREMELY BROODY...meaning she did not come out of the box for 2 1/2 days to either eat or drink. We finally carried her out ( she is such a lady; no pecking or mussing) and she sat pancake...