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    Forever a broody hen

    It’s hatch day… I can see two chicks in the nest… since Ramona went broody… Gertrude decided she was too and sat on the same nest… along with the regressed 11 weekers… apparently I need bigger nesting boxes but these are the most mothered chicks 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️
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    Forever a broody hen

    Update… they are 10 weeks old and still back to sleeping with her in the nest at night while she is sitting on a clutch. During the day they’ll go out and dust bath and such but return right back to the nesting box and perch around her all day. She doesnt seem to mind them there at all. She...
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    Forever a broody hen

    She had been laying eggs for at least 2 weeks after raising the 3 that are under her in the photo. I offered to hatch some eggs under her for a friend who wanted more chickens but then was shocked to find the 9 week old pullets under her last night as the days before when she was broody, she...
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    Forever a broody hen

    My girly Ramona has been broody 3 times in the last year. The last time she was broody (end of May) I gave her day olds on June 2nd. She happily raised them and at about week 5 ish she was done with them and they have intergrated the flock wonderfully. Welp fast forward to a few days ago… she is...
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    Broody raising chicks/medicated feed

    Thank you very much! I think I will try them all out in the run tomorrow for a little bit and see how things go and go from there. ☺️
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    Broody raising chicks/medicated feed

    Yes, the only reason is definitely just because of the feed. And yes « medicated starter » Is amprolium. I was honnestly just a bit paranoid of loosing the chicks to coccidia because they are unvaccinated. My other hens eat layer pellets which I believe can be harmful to the chicks (the reason I...
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    Broody raising chicks/medicated feed

    Thank you!!
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    Broody raising chicks/medicated feed

    I put them on medicated starter as they are unvaccinated for coccidiosis but I assume after a certain age, they don’t require medicated starter/feed?
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    Broody raising chicks/medicated feed

    Hiii! I currently have a broody I gave 1 day olds to 2 werks ago. She is being an amazing mama and is in an enclosure off my current run from my flock of 3 hens. She seems to be trying to get to the other side with the others. I would gladly let her go with her chicks as I think she would...
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    One is egg bound and bloody and the other is bruised

    Thank you!!
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    One is egg bound and bloody and the other is bruised

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    One is egg bound and bloody and the other is bruised

    My lady with the prolapse has gotten worse. She is alert and about but there is more tissue protruding and it is not healthy looking tissue. I unfortunately think we may need to cull her this evening to end her suffering. As for my other 2 ladies, their wounds do not appear to be infected at...
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    One is egg bound and bloody and the other is bruised

    Thank you very much for your help! My lady that was egg bound has laid her egg. I was able to help her and manuallt extract it. She is much perkier today. I’m not sure if she is actually prolapsed though or if her vent is just swollen and bruised from yesterday’s fiasco. She is indoors and...
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    One is egg bound and bloody and the other is bruised

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    One is egg bound and bloody and the other is bruised

    Please help!!! My hens are 1.5 years old. I came home today to find one hen egg bound and bloody and another seemed to be very bruised. We have no rooster and impossible for an attack to have happened as their coop is very secure and they are locked in every night. I have my eggbound girl Agatha...
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