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    Austrawhite eggs ?

    Definitely not one of their eggs. Someone else just laid a small egg.
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    Austrawhite eggs ?

    It could be but that probably means your Austrawhite is older than you think. Do you have a photo of her? Does she look mature enough to lay? My Autrawhites lay off-white, cream, and sometimes they can look that color.
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    Any suggestions for stubborn roo at bedtime?

    I came here to suggest this as well. My first flock drove me crazy trying to get them to bed. One evening I got caught up with the kids and went out a little later than usual and they were all inside. I was just going out there too early.
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    Broody hen

    Thank you! I will probably move forward with what has worked in the past for me. ive had Previous groups of chicks grow to about 14/15 weeks in our Pullet area before letting them mingle. The pullet area (maternity ward, as im calling it now) is an 8x8 run with a small coop and is attached to...
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    Broody hen

    Sorry to hijack this thread but this response is interesting to me. We’ve chatted in my own thread about my broody. I have her separated with her 8 chicks (now about a week old) in the “maternity ward” of my run. The whole flock can see them all but can’t access. Mama and babies have their own...
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    Broody hen

    I moved my broody and her eggs around day 7 to a new coop and run. I had to lock her in there for a bit but she took to it. I did it at night in the dark, placed her right on her new nest and eggs. She was frazzled and confused the next day so I kept closing her in for periods. By day 3 it was...
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    Strange, unexpected death

    do you have poisonous snakes? Is it possible she was bit by something?
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    Need help figuring what to do with Hen and her chicks plus my new chicks from hatchery

    Just a thought- will she move to the floor of the coop to sleep with them when they outgrow the nesting box? I use Rubbermaid dish bins for nests. They’re a great size for that, but I think it’s going to get mighty tight in there in a couple of weeks with 8 babies.
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    Need help figuring what to do with Hen and her chicks plus my new chicks from hatchery

    It helped that she hatched a black, yellow and red chick and the new ones are black and one is red. I don’t think she can tell who is who now 😂
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    Need help figuring what to do with Hen and her chicks plus my new chicks from hatchery

    Thanks! I decided to throw caution to the wind. I brought one new one out and she panicked when she heard chirping like a baby was missing! She accepted that one, so I grabbed the other 4 and gave them to her. They’re all pecking the ground together happily! Took about 10 min to fully accept but...
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    Need help figuring what to do with Hen and her chicks plus my new chicks from hatchery

    If I moved mama and babies to the big coop, could I take them out in the dark and place them all in her original nest in the big coop? Shed wake up there with the babies. Or is that risky?
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    Need help figuring what to do with Hen and her chicks plus my new chicks from hatchery

    Yes! I have the hatchery chicks in a box in my garage now. They arrived today (hatched yesterday). My broody hens eggs hatched on Saturday, so they are actually only 3 days older than my hatchery chicks. I have time to encourage mama to take her trio to the big run, just wondering how I do...
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    Need help figuring what to do with Hen and her chicks plus my new chicks from hatchery

    One of my girls went broody a month ago so I separated her and gave her some fertilized eggs. Three hatched 3 days ago and mama is doing a great job caring for them. They are in a section of my run that we had set up specifically for raising chicks. It has its own small coop on the floor and...
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    Letting a broody hatch some eggs

    Here she is showing her babies how to scratch and peck. She’s a great mom!
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    Letting a broody hatch some eggs

    Thanks. She’s been off all day now! I grabbed the egg after 3 hours figuring she abandoned it. It was cold and not pipped so I investigated. Nothing inside but runny yolk.
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