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    Do Broody Chickens Lay?

    I have 4 chickens. One lays brown eggs. The other three lay white eggs. She is one of those three and every day I get three white eggs so I am confident she is laying. Only other option would be that the other two are laying more than one egg daily which would seem unlikely, especially as I am...
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    Do Broody Chickens Lay?

    I have a chicken that is showing signs of being broody such as puffing up and squawking when approached and sitting on eggs all day long (and night if I forget to collect the eggs). The only thing is that she is laying daily and I didn’t think broody chickens laid eggs. Am I wrong? Isolating in...
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    Any females in the attached photos?

    We're not 100% certain but I'd say most of them (we didn't buy them but got them from a local pre-school).
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    Any females in the attached photos?

    Hi, We have raised these chickens since around 2 to 3 weeks and they are now around 13 to 15 weeks old. They all appear to have male characteristics and we hear the odd masculine sounding noises but no crowing. Is there any hope there are some females among them?
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    How to Introduce Two sets of Chicks to Existing Flock

    Hi all - bit of waffle here to set the scene...we have 2 fully grown Barnevelders and one doesn't seem to lay so we wanted more chickens. Cue neighbour who gave us 16 chicks that were around 1 to 3 weeks old (they are a mix of breeds, some are ISA Browns and we think the others are Australorps...
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