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    chicks won't go into coop at night

    The coop is 3.5x5. In the past we have had up to 11 birds in it. We seem to lose about a half dozen every year due to predation....mostly hawks and golden eagles.
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    chicks won't go into coop at night

    Thank you! I had put the dog crate they were in as hatchlings back in along with part of a metal cage used around molasses vats as a roosting device when I separated them off. I will add perches higher up in the run so they can get up out of the reach of the older chickens. The run is only about...
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    chicks won't go into coop at night

    It was advertised as a 12 chicken coop. There are 5 nesting boxes and 4 roosts which will accommodate 3 full-size birds each.
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    chicks won't go into coop at night

    I have 6 remaining chicks about 12 weeks old. Their mama left them to their own devices about a week ago. They had all been going into the coop with the mother for several weeks and crowding into the nesting box with her. Three days ago I found one of the chicks up against the door to the run in...
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    One week old chick dead in nest

    This is only the second time we’ve hatched a clutch. First time, 4 chicks successful to adulthood. This time, same broody hen, 100% hatch, 8 chicks. This morning I found a chick dead in the crate. It was flat on its back, no sign of injury. Can chicks be suffocated or do I need to worry about an...
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    Integrating chicks

    Thanks. I'm pretty sure she knows more about raising chicks than I do :p but they're getting kinda big to be up under her. It looks pretty uncomfortable.
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    Integrating chicks

    I have a very good mama hen. Chicks are about 3 weeks old. She still takes them into the dog crate where we put her to hatch them ( other hens kept trying to stick eggs under her as they all seem to like the same nesting box). None of the hens or rooster are aggressive toward the chicks and they...
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    How soon would you let a broody hen with chicks into flock?

    I too am a first timer. My hen hatched four chicks a week ago. I had put her in a dog crate inside the chicken run while she was broody and then fenced around the run and across half for her and chicks after they hatched. I don't know how the other hens and rooster will treat the newcomers and I...
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