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    Need some help with new chick

    Thank you for that! I am trying to watch her. As far as I know it is her first time being a mom. I have had her and her pen mate for prob 4 years now but never had a rooster. I acquired 3 leghorns and the buff almost 2 years ago as baby chicks and got a rooster about 8 weeks ago. Growing up...
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    Need some help with new chick

    My broody hen has been setting on eggs for 20 days. This morning I went out to check on them and there was a dead baby laying outside the nest. The eggs under her are leghorn and buff orphington (sp) but this baby was fully formed and white. Also when Mama got up I checked the other eggs and...
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    Tasty snacks for chickens?

    I did not realize bread was bad for them-stopping that right now! Mine eat tomatoes, beans, grapes, strawberries, and oats. Question-can I feed them shrimp or the shrimp peels?
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    How do you get a chicken to set?

    She had actually been on an empty nest for two weeks just being a royal Pita-the fertilized eggs have only been under her about 2 days but she is sitting on them. So if I get what you are saying-if she gets up off the nest and I want chicks I will have to incubate them? So how do these hens...
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    About me

    Thank yall a lot-I am rarely shy about asking so you may be asking me to shush LOL
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    How do you get a chicken to set?

    I know it would seem simple and they may actually on their own but my rooster has only been busy for a little over a week. I have a RIR who is 4 or 5 years old and she went broody on me. Hubby decided she needed to be a mom and went looking for fertilized eggs but came back with the banty...
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    Chicken dilemma as it gets darker

    Not real sure if it works but I have a light in the pen on a timer-I let them out early and close them up at nite, but the light seems to help-or maybe it just helps me. I have also been told that if you put a radio out close to the coop or pen it will keep predators away.
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    About me

    I currently have 3 leghorns and a buff orfington (sp) raised from baby chicks purchased at TSC last Feb. They are doing great and lay everyday. We also just acquired a banty rooster and while small he is mighty! I previously had 2 RIR hens but they are about 4 or 5 years old. I have a couple...
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