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Originally Posted by Julie924 

Aw, they are so cute.  That must be some fun watching.  I've raised some from chicks sent in the mail.  None of my hens will sit on eggs long enough.  How do you find a hen that will sit on eggs?  Or can you teach them?  IDK 

I tested mine on golf balls. If you see a hen sitting on a few golf balls and all fluffy, then she may sit. When I find a hen hanging around the nest box all day, I put her alone in a mini coop. Watch her if she sits all day and only gets up to potty and eat/drink try real eggs. Also helps if you keep food and water close so she can sit and eat/drink I made the mistake of putting 12 under the last untested broody. 3 hatched then she started killing the unhatched then stared pecking at the new babies. So I took the eggs and babies away and put them under a heat lamp. 2 more hatched that was it. So she will no longer have the chance to be a mom. She still goes in and sits in the nest boxes and I keep pushing her out of it taking away any eggs she has gathered. The stupid chicken keeps trying. My BO was great she sat on them all day just got up long enough to do the rounds once a day. She watched and protected them till they where 4 weeks old. I'm hoping she will brood again since she started laying again.

Mammies hatch day pix before it all went wrong. BAD CHICKEN!

My mini coop chicken tractor. Makes a great broody pen, till she is ready to bring out the family.

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Originally Posted by chicken boy13 

I hate to burst your bubble but the one on the left deffinely not SLW and I kneed a better pic of the one on the left

I didn't think it was a slw, but wasn't sure....will get a better pic on here soon

Hello, we were on here a lot last year when we got our first 7 chicks.  They are big and strong and happy little layers, and we can legally get a few more since we enlarged the footprint of the coop.

So here are the 5 new babies, hatched Monday and delivered Tuesday from mypetchicken.com (wonderful healthy babies too!!!)

Left to right - Chicken Pot Pie is an Easter Egger, Carbonara is an Australope, Cordon Bleu is a Blue Splash Maran, Osso Buco is a Welsummer, and Marsala is a S-L Wyandotte.

We hold them every day, and they all relax except the the Maran (or is it Marans), who quivers a lot until she settles.

Kendra dubbed this little one the rock n roll chick because of the mohawk doo

Barred Plymouth Rock

White Plymouth Rock

Buff Orpington

Rhode Island Red

2-Americauna/Golden Comet mix

Bearded Silkie 

2 Banties from the feed store and 4 from the awesome chickenstock over the weekend for my kiddos..  Not sure what the 2 black ones are (Australorp and ? maybe) and the other is EE vs Ameracauna, pretty sure it's EE, but how do you tell the difference??  So fun to watch them grow!!

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Originally Posted by chicken boy13 

I hate to burst your bubble but the one on the left deffinely not SLW and I kneed a better pic of the one on the left

here are some better pics of the little "slw" she is brown chipmunk....whatcha think she actually is?

These are my chickens at two months old i have four of them. Lucy, Salt, Pepper, and Runt. Two white and two black they are Chantecler/Braham pullets. I cant wait till they start laying eggs!!!