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    Pecking order and teenager adoption by top hen, normal behavior?

    I've been noticing this behaviour in one of my chickens, but we have a rooster. We got this hen at a year old and she's red, I never learned what a breed she is but the rest are australorps and australorp chicks. The chicks when 5 weeks old were roosting on the roosting bars; I noticed one...
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    Hen won’t stop being broody, abandoned live chick

    Thanks. It looks like I’ll have to do that as two eggs under it hatched and she killed them so it’s obviously the same hen. I’m toying with the idea of taking the remaining eggs away because I hear them peeping already and not excited about her killing those too. Is it possible to hatch an...
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    Hen won’t stop being broody, abandoned live chick

    Well I see I can’t delete a thread but I went out tonight and all 3 hens were on the ground with their chicks. So unless another hen adopted that chick I just have a new broody hen. I am confused since a couple nights ago that chick was in the nesting box with what I thought was its mother, and...
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    Hen won’t stop being broody, abandoned live chick

    So I had a broody hen sitting on about 15 eggs, it was definitely a staggered hatch and only one hatched. I let her sit on them for several days and by the third day moved her and the chick out of the nesting box cause I was worried about them getting water and they were high off the ground. I...
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