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    How did my hen manage to hatch her eggs?

    Just curious, why did you let her set on eggs for that long? She was obviously broody and in the nest box? And you never collected eggs? Or did she have a hidden nest in the bushes somewhere? I have a question for the experts. If she started a nest in an unknown location, how long could those...
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    My Experience Raising a Single Chick...so far

    So helpful!!! Thank you so very much! 🐥
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    My Experience Raising a Single Chick...so far

    Thank you for this info! Invaluable. Two questions. What do you have on the floor of your pens, sand? And how do you rig the heating pad system. Above the chicks or under? I started to read the comments attached to your article hoping for more insight But there were just too many to read them...
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    My Experience Raising a Single Chick...so far

    I am also raising a single chick separate from my flock. It is going thru some of the same stages you have mentioned, which is reassuring. I came here looking for info because at night mine cries a lot. I finally started turning the heat lamp off at night so it would settle down and sleep. If...
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    Lame Pullet Failure to Thrive

    Thank you. I will try the drops. I would like to give her a good chance at making it before I take the next step. She is like a little puppy....stays by my feet waiting to be lifted to her food but I can see that getting from spot to spot is difficult for her and I don't want her to suffer. This...
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    Lame Pullet Failure to Thrive

    Hello. I have a 3 month old White Leghorn pullet that I am raising with 4 Barred Rocks of the same age, and an older flock of 14 hens and one rooster. They all free roam, are fed commercial lay pellets and scratch and retire to a nesting coop at night. I bought them as peeps at a feed store.The...
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