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    Trouble with reintegrating hen

    Hi, I have a sizzle who sat broody for a little over a month. She hatched out one chick, but abandoned it. We put her in the broody breaker inside the flock's safe run area (where we lock them in when we can't be out with them- hawks are a big issue here) and let her have a week or so to feed...
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    Is this feather mites?

    Hi, I have a sizzle hen who has been sitting on eggs for a month or so. She just hatched out one baby a week ago, but the baby died. I moved her to the broody breaker today so she could recover and eat without the larger hens interfering with her. As I moved her, I noticed significant feather...
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    Babies are here... When to move mamas and babies?

    Thank you so much for your response! We figured out a way to block off those nesting boxes from the rest of the coop while allowing room for food and water for mamas and babies. So the other ladies can lay in the other nesting boxes for a few days. Once we see that mamas and babies have ventured...
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    Babies are here... When to move mamas and babies?

    Hi, We have a Silkie and a GLW on clutches of 4 and 5 eggs. We tried to move them with their clutches to a separate area last weekend; the hens did not like that and wouldn't return to sit on their eggs. So we moved them back into the coop with the flock and they've been sitting just fine ever...
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    Separate two broody hens from each other?

    Hi, We have a broody Silkie and a broody glw. Both are sitting on 5 eggs; the Silkie is on bantam eggs and the glw is on regular-sized eggs. We have a way to separate the hens from the rest of the flock to hatch their chicks, and a "nursery" set up for when the babies arrive, but the current...
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    Chick died- what to do with hen?

    Hi all, We are so sad because we had a chick die today. Our Silkie hatched it and she was SUCH a good mother. But the chick fell off the side of the ramp into the coop and its foot got stuck in the wire. I don't know how long it hung there--last night when I checked, Mama was in the nesting box...
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    Roo pecking new hen

    Right now our chickens have full access to 1/2 acre with tall grasses, pallets, the regular grass (lawn), tree stumps, dirt, etc. When they are confined to the run for maybe an hour a day, they have 3' of room under the coop (so 32 sq feet of shade), two roosts, several pallets stacked and...
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    Roo pecking new hen

    I forgot to say we have a total of 13 birds right now.
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    Roo pecking new hen

    The coop is 5 feet tall. Four of the chickens are silkies, so small. There is 21 linear feet of roost space with 2-3' between each roost and the ceiling. We haven't seen this behavior in the coop; it was when the birds came out into the run when the issue began.
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    Roo pecking new hen

    Thanks. I guess we will have to reset the wire wall. Perhaps we will add a hole for the babies. The older girls are 10-12 weeks old, and the little ones are slightly bigger than the silkies. We have plenty of space (coop is 8x4 with five roosting branches; run is 20x10, but chickens are only...
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    Roo pecking new hen

    I have an EE roo who has been with his for hens (EEs and GLWs) since hatching. About four weeks ago we successfully introduced 3 Silkie girls of the same age to the flock with no drama. We had to get some new EE and BO pullets since some of our original flock were Roos. These five girls are 6-8...
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    Gnarly feathering in or something wrong?

    Perfect. I was pretty sure that's what was going on, but hers just seem bigger in circumference and more sparse than the other EEs we have. Thanks! :)
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    Gnarly feathering in or something wrong?

    Anyone have any thoughts?
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    Gnarly feathering in or something wrong?

    Hey all, this chick is 4/5 weeks old and her feathers are so weird compared to all the other ones we've raised this spring. Is this a normal pattern for feathering in? Or does she have some sort of disease or deficiency? Thanks! Belly (totally naked?!!!) Neck (see the feathers growing in...
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    Newbie Scraps Question

    Ok, I know WHAT I can feed (kitchen scraps), but I don't know what size to give. Do I need to chop up kitchen scraps? My oldest birdies are 8 weeks old and I have another batch of 3-week-olds. Sorry this is a dumb question!
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