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    Not sure when to move Debbie off her other eggs to be with newborn chicks?

    Debbie, our broody hen, is sitting on about 18 eggs... one of our other hens kept laying eggs under her, so all the eggs are developing at different stages. We have a homemade incubator on standby. When she abandons the eggs to be with the chicks, we plan to move the eggs to the incubator. The...
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    Egg is cracked open but no sign of a chick? What the heck happened?

    We have four hens and rooster in a chicken tractor. They free range in the evenings and on weekends when we're home to monitor. Our queen bee hen, Constance, has been sitting on Lord knows how many eggs -- I think 8 or 9? -- for more than two weeks now. Today, there is an egg cracked open...
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    How do we let our chickens free range during the week now that it's dark by the time we get home fro

    We have four hens and a sweet rooster who spend all day inside our chicken tractor. Every day after work, we let them out right away to free range for a few hours before they put themselves to bed and we lock them back up after sundown. But now that fall and winter are setting in, it's about...
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    One of our hens is a rooster... do we keep him?

    One of our three "hens" is a rooster -- should we keep him? Our plan was to keep just a handful of hens and reap the benefits of fresh eggs. But our favorite hen, Jupiter, has become quite rooster-like the last few weeks and this morning we caught him crowing at the crack of dawn. My hubby...
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