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Thanks! Will try that. Going to try some oatmeal, yogurt and acv too.

I have been having the same problem with one my hens for months, only she hadn't been broody. I have cleaned her out several times and the condition always returns. Hope someone has some ideas on what is going on and how to help!!

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How about the dog house? Thats where some of my hens started laying.

I finally got some chicks. Hope you can get some answers and figure out what to do with your hen.

Well, I am glad to see mine are not the only ones. I found two eggs in the house the cats use today.

I am in a similar predicament. Only no broken shells. All eggs fully intact. Hope some one answers your question. And how should I go about removing the eggs and the hen? I have never had this happen before. Usually 21 days and beautiful little chicks.

Anytime I get tiny ones my youngest son always claims them. So I fry them up for him. Once we got one not much bigger than a marble. Sure enough it had a yolk in it.

Thanks!

My poor kitties. My black cat is hiding in the doghouse. I ran the chickens off so the cats could finish eating. Maybe I better just feed them after the chickens have roosted from now on. Don't want a war to start.

This is my Red Devil. He liked to bite and attack everyone and everything. Poor boy has to be cooped by himself. He is almost a year and a half now. He is quite special though. I take him out in the pasture away from the other chickens and he will walk with me ( and my cats and dogs). he comes...

I have always been worried that my six cats would someday cause a problem with my chickens, but never the other way around. In the last few weeks my young group of chickens ( six 6 month old and five 9 month old) have started bullying my three outdoor tom cats. They run them off of their food...

68,694 Add my 38 = 68,732.

That is exactly what my broody hens do if I take them off the nest. They just lay on the ground for a minute then get back up. I have an especially stubborn one right now that lays down then immediately goes back to the nesting box.

Thank You!! He is a proud result of mixing several breeds. Cochin, leghorn, game, and not sure what else. He and the red roo both hatched October 2011.