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    Advice Needed for 2 Chickens Sharing a Clutch of Eggs

    We've decided for the first time to let our broody Jersey Giant sit on our Cochin's fertilized eggs. We've never done this before, having always purchased day-old chicks from the feed store. We're very excited, but not sure if there's something we should be doing for her, special housing, etc.
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    I'd like a quieter rooster, please.

    Our hen, Bonnie, turns out to be a rooster who've we've named Muttly. He's actually pretty nice, but he, of course, crows. I would like to keep him if I can, but one neighbor is terribly afraid of roosters, and another seems to find his singing annoying. I've read a few suggestions for how to...
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    2 year old hen is listless and losing feathers

    Thanks, I'll try that. Haven't seen any worms in anything. Guess they're microscopic?
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    Oh, oh, oh, I see a chickie!!!

    Wow! What beauties!
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    Soliciting advice for a small breeding project

    I'm relatively new to chicken keeping (2 years), and this year we decided to see if we could breed one of our girls. Josephine is a 2-yr old Speckled Sussex who periodically goes broody. When our girl Goldie was killed a couple of months ago by a raccoon, we decided we'd get a rooster and see if...
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    What flowers won't they eat?

    My girls eat anything and everything they can get ahold of. We are constantly trying to build better fencing for our veggie gardens and flower gardens. And if, for some reason they don't eat it, they scratch the heck out of it!
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    2 year old hen is listless and losing feathers

    My 2 yr old Red Sex-Link hen, Maisy, has been doing quite poorly lately. She has always been our most reliable layer, and she stopped laying about 5 days ago. She seems to be losing weight (I don't have her actual weight, just from the feel of her) and has been losing feathers around her comb...
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