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    Chicken escape

    We're moving or rather have been moving over the last month. We set up a new coop on the new homestead and moved our chicken. However one of our newer hatchlings (12 week old) escaped. We left food and water and a trap ....she won't touch it. To make matters worse she's made herself part of a...
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    Hen missing butt/vent

    I live in western Ontario it's already snowing, it reaches -40 here definitely need the heat light. last year I didn't have one and lost some wattles and such. It's a back yard flock. I have 15 birds now in a 4*6*6 coop with a second floor and an attached 60sqf run.
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    Hen missing butt/vent

    Yesterday my husband went to go feed the chicken and noticed a large amount of blood all over the coop. It was still closed from the night. So he gives the chickens a once over and found one of our hens with an open cavity in her back end. You could literally see right through her missing butt...
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    Rooster in love with a brooding hen🤔

    Update*** Jo had her babies yesterday and today.
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    Rooster in love with a brooding hen🤔

    8 days till hatching day
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    Rooster in love with a brooding hen🤔

    Oh my goodness 🤣 that brings favorite to a new light. I'll have to move her or lock her in the coop because I've never been able to catch Moe🤷 Thanks for the tip!
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    New member

    Oh my goodness 😃 hello from Ontario Canada!
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    New member

    We did but our cat got him one day....made nice soup🤦
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    Rooster in love with a brooding hen🤔

    Ok so my is free range, highly self-sufficient, they even put themselves to bed! So I had 2 hens go broody 2 weeks apart birda and Jo. Birda hatched her babies 6 days ago. Jo is still being patient. Our rooster Moe is very nice and gentle helps the chicks eat and watches birda and babes, warns...
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    New member

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes I'm new to raising chickens. We got a rooster and 2 hens in June this year (2021) in August we added 4 more chick and a quail to the flock. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Currently 11 with 30 hatching eggs due in a...
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