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    Welsummer poulet- hen or rooster????

    Hi Pyxis, I just noticed the misspelling as I posted this:( I have also been looking at other posts people have made and I think you are right. Thank you!
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    Welsummer poulet- hen or rooster????

    Hi everyone, This is my Welsummer poulet Olive. We got him/her in March at the age of about 10 weeks along with another poulet of the same age. We know for sure that the other poulet is a girl but we are unsure about Olive. He/ she is around 24 weeks old now and the breeder says that Olive is a...
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    Broody Hen leaves nest with chicks on the way

    Hi, We have had a broody hen for 3 weeks now, and her egssbwe have her we're not fertile. A few days ago we ordered a few chicks from a local breeder which we picked up today. She told us to give the chicks to our hen tonight while she sleeps. At about 1pm today our hen left the nest and hasn't...
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    Broody hen hasn't left the nest in days??

    My hen hasn't left her nest for a few days, so I'm hand feeding her and bringing her water to drink and putting it into a spoon and having her drink it off there. She seems pretty happy about the service
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    Can a Bantam rooster father chicks laid by a regular sized hen

    Ok thank you
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    What's the fertility rate for bantam rooster with regular hen?

    Sorry I forgot to say that we have 8 hens, six of them laying, but our rooster really only seems interested in those girls.
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    What's the fertility rate for bantam rooster with regular hen?

    Hi, We want to give our broody hen some fertilized eggs from our rooster and laying hens to hatch. We have 2 beautiful isa brown regular sized hens we have seen our bantam pekin rooster get with and we're wondering what the fertility rate was like and if our broody hen will be able to hatch the...
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    Can a Bantam rooster father chicks laid by a regular sized hen

    Thank you! We are very glad that he can fertilise them
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    Can a Bantam rooster father chicks laid by a regular sized hen

    That's great! We are really hoping that the eggs will hatch as it will be very cute to see the baby versions of our gorgeous rooster and hens. Thank you
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    Can a Bantam rooster father chicks laid by a regular sized hen

    Hi there, We have a bantam pekin rooster that we want to fertilise our regular sized isa brown hens so we our broody hen can hatch some chicks. We have read some mixed opinions about bantam roosters and regular hens and just wanted to know if anyone could help us. We've seen him attempt to...
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    Broody Chicken and hatching chicks

    Will do sounds great Thank you
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    Broody Chicken and hatching chicks

    Thank you very much for those, should we let our isa brown hens lay, then check if those eggs are fertile and if they are give our broody hen the next eggs those hens lay? Thank you so much for your help
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    Broody Chicken and hatching chicks

    She has been sitting on them for one day. We are thinking of giving her chicks if these don't hatch, but we are curious to see if we could hatch our own chicks first. Is it possible for him to fertilise the Isa Browns?
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    Broody Chicken and hatching chicks

    Hi, We have 8 Hens and one Bantam Pekin Rooster. All of them are about 8 months old. (Six out of the 8 hens laying) Our Plymouth Rock hen has gone broody within the last week. We were originally going to break her out of the broody cycle, but decided to let her hatch a few chicks. We have...
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