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    Need help from experienced chicken husbandry people. Topic Broody Hens.

    She is not actually laying any eggs as the eggs are being laid on the other side of the egg house as we have 4 egg boxes either side.. shes been broody for about 6 weeks now and worried that she is missing out on the nutrition ..
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    Need help from experienced chicken husbandry people. Topic Broody Hens.

    I have a problem of one of my young brown shavers it has been broody for a while now she doesnt come out of the chicken house. I have tried to keep taking her out and feeding her with the other chickens and we have also been told to dunk her bottom in cold water but that hasnt worked. What can...
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    Sweedish Blue Ducks

    Hi thanks for the reply but i leave in New Zealand not America and our season is summer going into Autum. How many eggs are they supposed to have in a year? They stay near our house and potter around our back door/yard they dont go out the garden..
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    Sweedish Blue Ducks

    We bought a male and female duck last year and they have been great pets so far. The female started laying eggs at 10 months old then a few weeks after starting to lay her eggs she made a nest and laid 17 eggs, 3 ducklings survived they were born in Oct 2011, but since then she hasnt laid any...
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