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    Bugs in coop - look similar to lice but I don't think they are - ??

    Thanks for your reply. They're not mites. We have not had mites (as far as I'm aware), so I don't have first hand experience with them, but from the photos and drawings I've seen on the web, mites look very different. These really look extremely similar to lice, but, as I said, not quite...
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    Bugs in coop - look similar to lice but I don't think they are - ??

    We have lots of little bugs crawling around on the nest boxes and other surfaces inside our coop. They look very similar to a photo of chicken lice that I found on this forum, copied below. However, they don't look quite exactly like that. I looked at them under magnification, and their...
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    Take only chick away from one hen and give to other hen with 4 chicks?

    Update for anyone interested: The hen with the one chick continued to be insanely aggressive. My intuition was that she would never be able to live peacefully with the other hen and chicks. I spoke with a local farmer I respect (keeps hundreds of free range chickens), and she, without...
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    Thanks, everybody!
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    Take only chick away from one hen and give to other hen with 4 chicks?

    Thanks again, folks. I've decided to pretty much follow your suggestion, Eggcessive. I've created a large screened-in enclosure (I happened to have a bunch of leftover window screen material to use) inside the coop where the hen with four chicks is, and I've put the other hen and her one chick...
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    Take only chick away from one hen and give to other hen with 4 chicks?

    Thanks for your input, too, Gabrielle. I've been reading through one of my reference books. While it doesn't directly address my question, it does advise against putting a chick more than one day old with a new mama hen, suggesting that the chick may not bond to the hen. If I'm not mistaken...
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    Take only chick away from one hen and give to other hen with 4 chicks?

    Thanks for your thoughts, Eggcessive. The hen with the four chicks is acting pretty mellow -- not minding much if we pick up her chicks, etc. I could be wrong, but I feel pretty sure she would accept the additional chick. It's really the other hen I'm concerned about -- how she would handle...
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    Take only chick away from one hen and give to other hen with 4 chicks?

    Hi, I need some advice as soon as possible. We had two hens go broody at the same time. We've had problems throughout the incubation period, but I won't give you the whole long story. Suffice to say, we lost 3/4 of the brood. Anyway, the current situation is that one hen has just one...
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    Hi, We live in Danby, NY (outside Ithaca). We've had about a dozen chickens, mostly Black Australorps, for a couple years. Everything has gone pretty smoothly for the most part, but questions do come up from time to time (like a problem I'm having right now, for instance!), so I thought I'd...
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