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    Identify type and sex help needed

    Thanks for the help. Two roosters would fight and I was afraid 2 drakes would also.
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    Identify type and sex help needed

    Will it be okay to keep them all together? I have no experience with ducks, only chickens.
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    Identify type and sex help needed

    In August we were given 4 ducks, 3 white with black spots and 1 grey/black/white. They have doubled in size since then. Two of the whites are larger and heavy, one white and the grey/black/white are smaller and can fly very well. They make very little noise and I don't see any curly tail...
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    What killed my chicken, and how do I prevent it from getting another one?

    I lost chickens a couple of years ago to a raccoon and they were the same way, head and insides gone. So sad to come out to in the morning and I felt so badly for the hens. They were inside a fenced pen in a coop, but they were not locked in the coop.
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    How to arrange little ones

    I had a hen hatch out chicks two weeks ago and was very worried about other aggressive hens so I waited 10 days before letting them venture in with the rest of the hens. Momma is very protective and cautious and takes her babies out a little more each day. I had her fenced off from the rest of...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Just wanted to share the best part of using a hen to hatch.. I gave her some Americana eggs and they are hatching. Baby is soooo cute. She has two others hidden and more to go.
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    Moving a setting hen?

    My first time hatching with a broody hen has been an adventure. She was sitting tight, but I would check 4 or 5 times a day to make sure she was still setting. On day 11, I was out cleaning the coop and discovered one hen was tormenting her. A Speckled Sussex would not leave her alone and...
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    Broken egg among those incubating under a hen

    I am hoping someone out there has had this happen and still been successful at hatching. I don't want to rinse them off or sand them to get some of the goop off.
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    Broken egg among those incubating under a hen

    Not sure what to do. I have a hen who went broody so I gave in and let her have fertilized eggs to sit on. It has been nine days and she has been very faithful to the nest. Today I found that one of them had broken and some of the others are now sticky. I removed the broken one (it had been...
  10. Recycled Parts Make A Coop

    Recycled Parts Make A Coop

    I brought home 8 baby chicks one day, which prompted my husband to start looking around for things he could use for a coop. His brother had an old shed he had built for his motorcycles, so that was carted home and put in the backyard. Alterations, including an old kitchen door and odd windows...
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    Silkie vs. Cochin Question

    I had a cochin who kept going broody all last spring. I put fertilized eggs under her and she sat for exactly 19 days and then refused to sit! Probably just her, she is kinda a flaky chick. None of my others ever went broody and I have a couple of each of 5 different breeds.
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    Agressive hens

    I have a buff cochin who it being bullied by a light brahma, an americana and a black sex link. I don't have a roo and the bullies are 4 year old hens. I knew someone was picking on her, she had a bare bottom where someone had pulled her feathers out, but today I caught them in the act. They...
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