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This is our first hatch, when our hen started brooding we didn't realize that other hens had been laying eggs with her until after 10 days. Now we have 6 hatched and another 11 who knows when. She got off the nest but we have another brooding hen now. Can we just put them under her? She has no...

Its night over here, she is asleep, we spent a hour looking for her. She hide under the coup and by the time we found her it was almost dark. I will check tomarrow and see if she has a egg stuck, and I will check her comb to see the color and the shape. I read somewhere that yougart might help...

What is IDK? What should I do for that?

Not sure how old she is. We bought her from a person who passed away. We call her big mama because she laid such wonderful large eggs. She is a big beige hen.She must be at least 2 years old. We have 5 other hens different types but they are fine and the rooster. She laid a egg three days ago...

How do I examine my hen to see what is wrong with her. What should I look for . She is molting and has been slow for the last two weeks leaving the coup . Then she stop leaving and stayed on her perch all day. We have to bring food for her to eat and drink. I have added apple cider vinegar to...

While planting our second cherry tree, we found a fortune in worms, added a little white cheese, and some beef scraps from todays soup pot. Our little hen was looking under the weather and we found her some nice protein that will help her lay some lovely eggs. Having 12 roosters, we can't leave...

Personality is so important , when everyone is fighting it will turn out like the American economy. So if you chicks have a pleasant personality and temperment, most everything else works its way out.

Well don't think we will have much of a problem with snow unless the weather gets more freaky than it has been. Our problem is the wind and days apon weeks of rain , rain , wind and wind. THis is our first winter with chickens, or should I say the roos, 49 roos one hen. They are our clean meat...

Ordered some Reds from Italy. It was to be 50 roos got one hen. Now the problem is to keep the 49 from my one hen. She is house separate, aloud one roo in her pen during the day.Oh yes her favorite , she doesn't want any other. Guess the question is , do chickens mate for life? Everytime another...

Oh, I know I am a country girl when I think chicken poop is so great that I spend hours scraping it up for my garden . Well raising Roos for meat and listening to 49 ROOs under my window in the morning that goes on for two hours or more without getting my shot gun out tells me a lot. I wouldn't...

Yes its hard. I like the idea of sitting down with your parents and working out a way for your sister to pay for the damages. I know it will not pay for the emotional investment you had in these birds. Never let them near your chicks for a long while. Best to keep them in your room. Its stay...

Ok, I am new at raising chickens. My chicken are free range with corn, broken rice and meal feed with all the vitamins. They like my kitchen scraps and I enjoy giving it to them. But I had read on another site that I should not feed them potato peels even chopped up small.They said that they...