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    Meet good old Eddie

    No eggs hatched, so I busted up clutch and booted Shelly from my room. She will be reconditioned for another attempt. She is in very good weight for going through the incubation part of broody cycle so I bet she will be back in lay in 14 days or less. Currently we are going through the depressed...
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    Meet good old Eddie

    First time to see Shelly since start of incubation. She clicks even more. Still in very good weight for a broody hen on the second week of incubation. I did not realize she was shaking when I did a hurried photograph. You can still see seam of her broody patch. I wonder how the skin muscles...
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    Meet good old Eddie

    Today, Shelly started to make short clucking sounds as she rolls eggs. All along she has responded to Eddies’ trilling sound with one of her own. She makes another very unpleasant growling sound when another broody hen crows in the other room. The other hen seems to respect the sound as an...
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    Brooding chicks outside in winter

    My son has been doing it in a coop setting. Problem has been when power went out and much occurred when ambient was about 0F. I do chicks under broody hens in a manger setting without troubles although keeping them in fresh liquid water is a difficult deal.
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    Meet good old Eddie

    Shelly is starting day 3 of her 21-day incubation cycle. Eddie has moved his roost site to head of my bed where Shelly was roosting. Just imagine what is like to have a rooster crow no more than 18” from your head. The is often proceeded by a bout of wing flapping. I am surprised he can get up...
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    Meet good old Eddie

    She is still laying eggs. By this time next week I think she will commence setting/incubation.
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    Meet good old Eddie

    Shelly doing a couple behavior changes as she is about halfway into filling her clutch. In the evening she has gotten serious about scratching my bedsheets and as of today began consuming drywall. Giving her lots of live mealworms stopped the bed sheet scratching. She is also producing a lot...
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    Rooster attacked my toddler

    I would take more care when allowing the smaller kids and chickens to interact. Sometimes the pecking are more about food, but even that is not ideal with smaller kids that do not or are unable to respond appropriately. Even chicks can be an issue if properly motivated. If a rooster is suspect...
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    Meet good old Eddie

    Interval between eggs has been about 22 hours so far.
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    Meet good old Eddie

    Just had an egg at that time. Two more have been laid since and cats found nest. Eddies mom was Sallie that was incubator hatched in early 2010. Sallie hatched out her son in 2012. Sallie back in 2011 on her first clutch. I lost her to a storm and fox about 7 years later. This image of Sallie...
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    Meet good old Eddie

    Eddie is officially a dad again at about 14 years of age. Shelly the pullet laid her first egg ever on floor behind suitcase. Before doing so she got onto bed with me and pecked me a lot and very hard. Hear earlobes are also very white.
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    Livestock dogs to guard chickens and turkeys?

    I would start with only one pup. Before getting pup make so you have a good pen to keep dog in when needed. Compensate for the dog's inclination to room, a perimeter fence is also a good idea. Then you have the protracted training which will likely take so direct supervision. Once first dog...
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    Injured Rooster

    I strongly recommend you treat the two roosters, even though brothers raised together, as complete strangers. Place the rehabilitated rooster in a separate pen.
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    Free Ranging

    When left to their own devices in a free-range environment with a diverse forage base of greens, invertebrates, and seeds the bulk of their intake by volume not accounting for moisture content is the greens. Once they start getting a good crop fill, they will then start showing looking more for...
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    Unusual sleeping / napping posture

    I agree. When conditions thermally neutral for a given bird the head is neither tucked nor extended. Once our central heating is back up I'll be able to record posture when she is warm. When warm they also seem to stand up a lot during the night. Opening photo was extreme; Shelly was neither...
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