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    Got a Broody one AGAIN... and hens are sharing a nest....

    Ours shared the nest with the broody one, too. One was actually laying an egg on her back:lol: We finally moved her just a few days before the babies hatched so we could start getting eggs again. She had all kinds of eggs under her from all the other chickens. Fortunately we know which were...
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    when can mama leave babies

    We let our Silky hatch some eggs. They hatched on Mother's Day. We have her and the babies in their own coop away from the other chickens, but still in the same pen. Lately when I feed them she wants to get out with the other big girls, only they immediately start fighting. Should I put her in...
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    how long do chicks stay with mama

    Our Silky went broody and we got six fertilized eggs from the feed store. Amazingly they all hatched last Sunday. How long will the new "mama" want to be with the babies before she wants to go back to being with the other big chickens?
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    confused broody

    my Silky is broody and we put six fertilized eggs under her. She sits on them most of the time, but the other chickens have been laying in another nest box, and yesterday she had moved from her next box and was sitting on the other eggs. I gathered them and put her back in her nest and told her...
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    other chickens laying in nest with broody hen

    Our great chicken adventure started last year so I am still a newbie in thie way to do things. We have five Ameraucunas and one Silky in the same pen. We have two nests but they all lay in the same nest. Sometimes it's one nest and sometimes it's the other, but now there's a problem. The Silky...
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