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    Comment by 'AuntChickie' in article 'Everybody's Cluck Inn Coop'

    Thank you for the step By step photos! Building project seems overwhelming but I love how you break it down into “I can do this” mini-projects! 🩷
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    Topic of the Week - What is the purpose of your flock?

    I got 4 ISA browns last spring for egg laying.. suburban area doesn’t allow roosters. Hoping to curb the weeds and insect pests in the backyard as well! Free manure compost for the garden, too!
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    Broody hen 1 month plus

    Thank you for saying they will eventually break on their own! I make sure mine has food/water/treats and I force her (them, really because another joined her) to stay out in the yard to eat/free range/dust baths for a few hours every day but they are anxious to go right back into the coop
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    Broody chicken??

    Will she break on her own? Should I acquire a few eggs to let her sit on? (And then rehome the roos)
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    First time broody?

    That’s what mine is doing too! She reluctantly lets me take her out and put her in the yard and she will eat/drink but wants to go back to the laying area
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    Broody chicken??

    Following because believe it or not, one of my ISA browns has been broody for about a month. She is the self-proclaimed alpha of the flock (flock of four). The second in command has joined her in the nest box and sits on her head (or allows the first to burrow under her?) no roosters. So I...
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    Egg bound?

    Also the flock has been eating mulberries. I saw green berries on the ground after a storm (maybe she ate some unripe berries)? Making her a bath
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    Egg bound?

    Following because one of my ISA Brown has raised back and her vent is pulsing and she has a little bit of a runny bum. I cooked oatmeal yesterday and shared with them.And I wonder if she’s been laying the “deflated balloon” eggs
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    Got snakes?

    Learning.. just read they will eat hens if there’s not easier food 😳😱my client doesn’t mind sharing the eggs because black snake will eat the copperheads (if it’s hungry).. bet she doesn’t know it will eat a hen I’ve been helping her 8 years and this is the first year I’ve seen a snake
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    Got snakes?

    They told me there is at least one black snake getting the eggs 😱 I met this one today. Used a Chuck-It dog toy (flexible plastic long handle with special cup on end designed to throw a small ball a great distance) to retrieve the ones you see
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    UPDATE: Help! Did I do bad? Broody

    Thank you for this option. I have never hatched before, so I didn’t even think of it. Client has a friend that will adopt all (country living is the best)
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    UPDATE: Help! Did I do bad? Broody

    I don’t know how to destroy eggs. Especially with embryos or nearly formed chicks
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    UPDATE: Help! Did I do bad? Broody

    She’s out of town 10 more days.. and she (let) the bird get broody.. if I knew today was day 3 or 4 but it might be past 7. How does the flock handle chicks? Can’t they stay with the mother hen (like natural birds)?
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    UPDATE: Help! Did I do bad? Broody

    She left yesterday and she’s only keeping hens and goats from her late husband’s retirement adventure. She doesn’t collect everyday and that baffles me. The help only feeds them in the morning and opens the pen. So he knows this one has been on eggs for more than a couple days. Can I give them...
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    UPDATE: Help! Did I do bad? Broody

    UPDATE: I reached out to my client and seems I have stressed for nothing. She has a contact that will take all her oopsies (it has happened before). She did give me some guidance how to identify new eggs in the clutch (by marking the current ones) and remove those - and for goodness sakes don’t...
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