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    Little rooster with poor feathers

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    Little rooster with poor feathers

    he has access to dust when he free roams. i feed him all flock pellets, for treats i let them scratch around but he doesnt forage. he will eat blueberries ,and any safe vegetable i give them but not like my hen does. i treated him for lice and mites with permithern dust safe for chickens a few...
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    Little rooster with poor feathers

    So my rooster has improved a bit after looking very rough when it comes to the ability of walking. He can get up better and walk further but isn’t at 100%. What I have noticed though is he will not preen himself so his feathers are falling out and are in poor quality when they start growing...
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    Broody hen with 3 week chicks

    so the hen took two living chicks. but the thing is that they are all black except the calico princess (two) so she tried killing the two cp's. sadly after i kicked her and the rooster out for the chicks safety she got taken by a predator. but since then the rooster has taken the dad roll with...
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    Need to rehome a chicken in Memphis,Tn

    is it a rooster or a hen? stupid question i know. but the phrase crowing chicken has me confused
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    Broody hen with 3 week chicks

    our lil rooster is now in the coop and is letting all 15 cuddle/climb all over him with no issues
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    Broody hen with 3 week chicks

    ok well she took both of them but the others started getting to big for the brooder and she tried killing the calico princess chicks i have but none of the others so her and the rooster got separated from their babies. i do feel bad but the babies will be safe instead of out in the woods with...
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    Broody hen with 3 week chicks

    So I put another chick in. But prior to that the first one was nestled under the rooster and the hen and the rooster was guarding it from me
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    Broody hen with 3 week chicks

    Well I hatched this hen a few years back and she had moved positions in the nesting box with the chick so she could face our rooster ( he isn’t breeding them) and our other hen ( she’s a rir and will kill chicks) and would not let me check on the baby since I couldn’t hear or see it. She got feisty
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    Broody hen with 3 week chicks

    I have a hen who is broody for the first time ever. She has been broody going on a week with eggs that will never hatch. I have in my brooder 15 3 week old chicks and I took one down to her last night. Today it is still doing well. My question and concern is would she take more that 12 chicks...
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    Hatching assistance

    However she’s only been broody for a week and the chicks are going on 3 weeks so I don’t want her to have all 15 so I’ll see what she does with this one and try giving her some of the smaller chicks in my brooder barrel
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    Hatching assistance

    So my broody hen was sitting on eggs that were not fertile. I took one chick and gave it to her and she seemed to be okay with it so far
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    Hatching assistance

    I finally have a broody hen! I have ran her off the eggs she’s been sitting on 3 different times over the course of the last two days and she keeps going back to them! I don’t think they will be fertilized but only time will tell
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    Hatching assistance

    Now I think I have a hen that is broody sitting on about 10 eggs lol unsure if that is the case since yesterday was the first time she refused to leave the nesting box and our rooster refused to leave the coop and they normally chill in the woods mid day out of the sun
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    Hatching assistance

    9 of my bought eggs hatched and they are doing great
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