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    When can I expect eggs?

    My hens are 41/2 months now and one of them layed yesterday it was smaller then my mama's but it was exciting. Now i have 5 laying a day 3 more to go and I will have 8 laying a day. Exciting...
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    Successful integration

    I two did this with my 2 groups My Teenages are roaming all over the place the two groups have not come together yet but they have not attacked the teenagers. It is great to watch the two flocks mingle amongst themselves.
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    Rooster has to go...

    I too had a roo a Rhode Island red he was beautiful but I rehomed him to a farm with 8 others hens his age and I am so happy, My other 4 will now roam with the buffs who are 1 year old so 9 happy hens to 1 fiesty red island boy:) But I will miss him
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    Ok I put a broody in a cage by herself

    I puy my broody in a cage by herself for 4 days now she was acting normal and when I left her she run for the nesting box and started acting up again. Does this mean she will need to stay in a wire bottom cage for another 4 days or so?
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    I have a question

    Thank You everyone that helped out with this issue she is loose and back to being normal. She did not even attempt to go back to her nest but is hanging with her sisters and acting normal. Thank you all so very much:)
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    I have a question

    Ok I did it for two days I let her out tonight she did not head to the coop but is still fluffing all up at my other 4 and she is not growling at me, She will let me pat her so does this mean she is through being broody for know?
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    buff orpingtons

    I have 5 buffs and they are so gentle they will eat out of my hands and they won't eat off the ground snacks I have to hold the bread and grapes. I have one broody right now so all I am getting is 4 eggs a day. We have not had to buy eggs for us. I love my girls.
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    I have a question

    Thank you I did put her in a big pen byherself and no nesting material whatso ever and she is doing fine. Thank you all for your replys. 5 Buff Oprington 2 Rhode Island reds 3 Barred rocks and 1 white silke 1 black silkie
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    I have a question

    another question to go along with this, can I put her with my 5 2 month olds and will she be happy or does she just want to hatch eggs? I am so new at this and I don't want to upset them, they are all so mild tempered but this one now. I have the 2 months old out in a pen and there own coop with...
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    I have a question

    She had no eggs under her and she was sitting for 5 days with nothng under her so I moved her today so that she will not be broody or is tis wrong of me and just let her be.
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    I have a question

    I know this topic has been talked about we just remove a chicken that was vroody from the nest it has been aleast 1 hour and she has not gone back. Does this mean that she is done beening broody. All of my other 4 girls were upset since they all lay in the same nest box of the one that was...
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    I have 5 buff orphingtons

    I have 5 buff orphingtons and I have added 5 3 months old outside in a different pen, but the older ones are free range so that they will get used to them. One of my girls is making her feathers full and making a growling sound at them. Is she the alpha one and is she just letting them know...
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    I have 5 buff or

    what if I do not have a boy and they are all girls. They have been out in different cage my older girls have free range on my land and I have been putting the little girls in the fence pen. And still the older girls do not have a care that they are out there.
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    I have 5 buff or

    They are buff orpington chickens and when I put the month old out in a cage in my backyard the older ones just plain ingore them. I was just wondering if this is normal?
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    I have 5 buff or

    I have 5 1 year olds and 5 1month olds The older ones just ingore the month old is this ok or should I be worried once I put them together?
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