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    How to reintroduce a hen to flock? ( after horrible attempt)

    Like to explain the surviving original chickens of my flock last year are a island red rooster(Clark Kent), a bantam rooster(Floyde), and a australorp hen(mama). They had four chicks (2roosters,2hens) last September for the first time letting mama keep her eggs. And they never fought unless mama...
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    How to reintroduce a hen to flock? ( after horrible attempt)

    My flock has the most complicated pecking order built on a dictatorship with the tiny and only bantam being second in charge of the coop like the circus of events that happened today I don’t think is normal for them Becuz to be honest I’m not scared of them hurting mama I’m scared of her...
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    How to reintroduce a hen to flock? ( after horrible attempt)

    Won’t that knock her down tho in pecking order? Cuz she was the head hen of everyone. Like seven today when the drama went down she whooped the other 4 which are her kids (2 roosters,2 hens) and the head rooster even started trying to attack the others (which I know seems normal for the males to...
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    How to reintroduce a hen to flock? ( after horrible attempt)

    would anyone know about reintroducing the hen to the others becuz I tried this morning with our broody hen that was separated (her eggs where bad so we removed them) and it went horribly, like the only thing that didn’t go wrong was no one was hurt(besides me) but their was some serious conflict...
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    Mama attacked baby now thier hurt

    Ok so thank you ever one who posted and helped, my chicks are doing way better today they are all walking around like normal with nothing different so I guess they just had one bad headache and was exhausted from what happened. although would anyone know about reintroducing the hen to the...
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    Mama attacked baby now thier hurt

    I have always hand raised our chickens me and my mom but this year we decided to let our hen raise some last September sinse raccoons and then a fox within a weeks time broke into our old coop and killed all but one hen, a bantam rooster and our giant rooster(our other two roosters died from the...
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    Mama attacked baby now thier hurt

    Mama is a aurstralorp (hope i spelled that right), the baby’s where Orpingtons except the black chick was aurstralorp
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    Mama attacked baby now thier hurt

    Well the nesting box she chose in our separate coop had a small enter door that lead to a 2 and half foot by 3 foot box the has a door on the inside and a small door on the outside. We used the outside door to put a baby under her gently and of course it wiggles out of her and runs out and she...
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    Mama attacked baby now thier hurt

    Maybe that’s it, we kept the chicks for two day to make sure they were alright (we got them from tractor supply and I have had sick/unhealthy chicks from them before) so the were 4-6 days old and maybe that was to old
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    Mama attacked baby now thier hurt

    She’s hatched before and was a great mama which is the only reason we were willing to try and get her to raise these ones that and we didn’t want her to be depressed from us removing eggs she sat on for atleast a month. As for color I only wondered about that becuz the first “test” chick was the...
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    Mama attacked baby now thier hurt

    We have a broody hen who was on what I’m guessing was dead eggs and she would not get off them. We decided to buy 6 chicks and just switched them out and she excepted the first one, I’m guess since she is black and the baby was black (just like the baby’s from her first time hatching eggs were...
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