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    Babies!

    Mama seems to be happy with her new chicks. All is well in our coop! :)
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    Babies!

    Yes? We put them under her and then left her. Should I check during the night? Before I go to bed? Or just wait until the morning? Fingers crossed! I have chick feed for them right by the nesting box. I will go out to the coop in the morning and raise the other feeder so they can't reach it.
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    Babies!

    Thank you for the reply! I have heard that I need to take away the layer feed. I only have 2 hens and the one is broody. The other is a Polish that has never laid an egg but has been sitting on a nest too. She doesn't seem as broody though and I think she might just be sitting to stay with...
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    Babies!

    Fingers crossed!!! Today is (hopefully) the day I get chicks for my broody! So, I have a few questions. I have heard I should wait until the evening to put the chicks in with the broody hen. Is this necessary? Can I do it mid to late afternoon so I can check on them? I am worried about them...
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    Broody coop!

    Thank you for your reply. It was so helpful. I think our Polish is just playing at broody because she is lonely so I will hopefully only have to get chicks for the one hen. I was planning on 2. Hopefully they will both make it. We want to keep the flock small in case we get another broody...
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    Ant killer.....

    I would love to know about Borax too! I have a huge number of ants in my coop run. I am wondering if it is because my chickens are broody so the run is pretty much empty ALL the time. I hate the ants, they give me the heebeejeebees! Plus, I am looking to give my broodiest hen some chicks...
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    Leaving a new mama?

    She will be 2 weeks broody on Sunday or Monday. It is possible she has been broody longer but we were out of town. We probably didn't know she was broody until Tuesday which makes me think she had just started. We only have 2 chickens and we can't tell if our Polish is going broody too or if...
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    Leaving a new mama?

    Looking forward to getting my broody hen some chicks at the end of this week or the beginning of next week. I am wondering... if she takes to the chicks, how long until they are "safe" to leave alone. We are looking at going out of town for a weekend and I don't want to get chicks and leave them...
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    Broody coop!

    So it looks like I may have 2 broody hens... which wouldn't be a big deal except that right now we only have 2 hens! Oy! Sooooo... if I decide to get them chicks... should I separate them into different coops? Can I get them chicks a week apart from one another? Our wynadotte has been broody for...
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    Nesting box ice packs

    So, I have decided I would rather break my broody than give her chicks. I don't have the wire floored cage to put her in but since I only have 2 chickens and my broody hen is our only layer I am looking for a way to break her without separating her. My daughter read about ice cubes but that...
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    Should I block the box?

    I have a broody hen. I was planning on getting some chicks and could try to sneak them under her but we want the chicks to be friendly and handled a lot and she is not a friendly chicken. Soooo, I am wondering if I block the nesting boxes off will she stop being broody on her own? I don't...
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    Adding Chickens...What to do?

    Our favorite chicken was found dead in the coop while we were on vacation. So sad. We only had 3 chickens. Our 2 remaining chickens are a golden laced wynadotte and a polish tophat. Now we are trying to figure out what to do for additional chickens here. We definitely want to replace our Red...
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    Our Polish hasn't laid an egg...

    SO we have 3 chickens. They will all be a year old in mid June. Two of them have been laying for a bit now but our Polish has yet to lay an egg. She suffered a pretty significant trauma on Feb 27th when our dog got out with the chickens and we didn't know. Fortunately she has fully recovered...
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    Building RIGHT NOW and have a design question!

    Thanks, we are going to go with no gap. The coop will have a window so there will be plenty of ventilation. They are behind schedule so they haven't started the nesting box yet but this is what we have gotten done.
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    Building RIGHT NOW and have a design question!

    So construction on the new coop is continuing and we have a question. On our current coop (which was a kit) the nesting box lid has about a 1 inch gab between the wall and the lid when it is closed and hooked. Is that gap important for ventilation or no? We are going to build a nesting box and...
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