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    Surrogate Momma Hen raising her chicks - watch for updates

    I can't believe how much I am enjoying watching her with her chicks. It's amazing to watch her, she is teaching them everything she is suppose to (I think lol) She IS one happy Momma! And to think she was a chick not too long ago her self. She just started laying in February <3
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    Surrogate Momma Hen raising her chicks - watch for updates

    Lost one chick yesterday. I knew she had one under her that wouldn't come out. Yesterday afternoon she finally abandoned as it lay all by itself on the ground, when I came to check on them one of the hundred times during the day lol. I brought it inside, wrapped it in a heating blanket. It...
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    Surrogate Momma Hen raising her chicks - watch for updates

    I decided to go for it and get them all set up down in the coop out of the nest. So far so good. She is taking on motherhood just perfectly <3 <3 <3 She is one happy happy happy hen!
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    Surrogate Momma Hen raising her chicks - watch for updates

    Good Morning/Evening Everyone, I have a Black Star that has been sitting on 8 eggs for about 25 days now. I went yesterday and bought 10 less than 24 hour old chicks from a local hatchery. I added them to her nest one at a time, removing an egg each time. Unfortunately I wasn't able to grab...
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    Looking for Pullets ready to lay soon

    All they offer are day old chicks. I don't have the equipment to raise them and I don't want to wait 20-24 weeks either lol.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    4/2 not sure how but yes I got 4eggs this morning and only have 2 very young layers.
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    Looking for Pullets ready to lay soon

    I have a laying Red Star and a laying Black star. I want to get more but don't want chicks. Does anyone have any suggestions on where the best place to get them? Thanks, Val
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    Pine Needles - Good or Bad???

    Thanks everyone! I think I will use them for the nest for now. They are out free ranging right now and they are loving the needles. I just went and looked on them and there are like 7-8 open dirt spots all around the needles. Amazing how they work! And I only have 3 hens (one's a pullet) and a...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I got 2 egg but only have one laying RIR. I think my BS Pullet started laying!! WooHoo!!
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    Pine Needles - Good or Bad???

    I am new to chickens. I have been doing a lot of reading on this page to get more educated. However, I have come across a contradiction on whether to use pine needles or not. I am not sure the type of pine trees we have in our yard but I know they have the long pine needles. I would like to...
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    1st time raising chickens

    Thank you everyone for the welcomes! Not so sure I ever thought I would have to bathe the Silky. Good thing he's the husband's rooster lol Our Rhode Island Red layed her first egg for us 2 days ago. Thing was huge, not a double but it was big. Then I retrieved her second one this morning. I...
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    1st time raising chickens

    Hi everyone, I was a wee little girl the last time I owned chickens with my dad. My husband and I just bought a house with a barn and pastures. We are going to start a hobby farm. My husband was raised on a dairy farm in Central New York. So I have a huge helper that knows a lot. However, he...
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