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Help my GL Wyandotte hen went broody. She was sitting on nine eggs. Today at 10 am the first chick hatched. One egg was broken but rotten and there are seven left! It's been almost 12 hrs and no sign of anything from the other eggs. How long do we wait?!?!

My Wyandotte hens are 23 weeks now and I havnt seen a single egg! They are free range during the day and go up in their coop at night. Could she be laying somewhere out in the yard? How can I tell? Should I pen her up for a couple days and see if anything happens? I worry that penning them my...

We are new to chickens this spring. We started with 6 golden laced wyandottes. They are a good dual breed (eggs and meat). I love them. Very gentle and sweet birds!

Adams County here! About and hr East of Cincy! Just started raising chickens in April and we already are addicted!

Hello! We are in Adams county Ohio. About 1 hr East of Cincinnati! We are new to the chicken life! But I am already a die hard chicken fan!

My hubby did the same thing! We started small with 6 chicks. Turned out we had 5 roos and 1 hen lol. So instead of increasing slowely he ordered 15 more hens! Feeling slightly over run with chickens but I do love them!

Here at the home flock (besides being a loner) he is doing fine. The main reason we brought him home was because my fil chickens wouldn't. Lt him eat or drink. One hen would keep guard on him while the others ate and then they would change! Do you think it would be betterto send back a dif roo...

When we started our flock we purchased 6 straight run golden laced wyandottes. Unfortunatly we ended up with 5 roosters. My father in law has a small flock of 7 mixed breed hens and said he would love a rooster. We gave him one about 18weeks old. Unfortunatly, he was pecked mercilessly by his...

Hello everyone! I am a brand new chicken enthusist! My hubby and I had been talking chickens for years ane this spring we finaly dove in. We decided to start small and purcheased 6 straight run Golden Wyandotte chicks at our local TSC. My husband built them a beautiful coop and things were going...