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    I think my hens gone broody!

    Thanks! We left her in the pen in the large dog crate. Hope she gets over it fast! She was still puffed up all day
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    I think my hens gone broody!

    Do I need to take her out of the pen and into the garage? Or can I put her in the cage inside the pen?
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    I think my hens gone broody!

    I have a 7 month bluff orphington who yesterday started staying puffed up in the nesting box, and when we took her down she would go right back up. She spent the majority of the day in the coop. She’s not aggressive, but our other hen pecks at her for hogging the favorite nesting box ( they each...
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    Rough eggs?

    My 9 month old Plymouth Rock is a champ layer ( she lays frequently every day for 2 weeks or more - I stretch was 21 days and then only takes a day off and is back at it.) the last few days has had eggs that are different. The first day the egg felt rough, like dried sand feel to the shell. Then...
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    new egg production question

    Oh sorry! Rooster is her name. She was a scraggly mean thing when she was a chick. I put in quotations in the other post lol
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    new egg production question

    our 6 month old girls are new layers. one hen (rooster - plymouth rock) has laid an egg a day for 3 weeks, the other (belina - buff orphington) is just a 4 days in and every day. will this egg production continue every day, or will it start to drop off?
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    Chicken squatting

    our 6 month old girls just started laying. one hen (rooster) had put out an egg every day for 3 weeks now. she was squatting a week prior. the second (belina) just started squatting last week and is on day 3 of laying now
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    2 eggs from 2 new layers!
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    Let hen raise chicks or hand raise indoors?

    we have two 6 month old hens. "rooster"(she was a scraggly mean chick that turned out to be a beautiful sweet hen lol) has been laying for 3 weeks and "belina" just started this week. Belina takes about 2 hours making a nest and laying an egg each day, and then she sits on it until we come and...
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    Fun chicken chart for kids?

    we have 2 hens that are now laying eggs (6 months old now). these babies are our daughter's responsibility(although we all love to play and snuggle them) and we were looking for a fun chart to keep track of the different hens eggs daily - rather than r and b on the calendar. anyone see anything fun?
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    Too or hen?

    Thanks everyone! I put up an ad and someone is coming from 45 minutes away tomorrow to get our sweetie!
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    Too or hen?

    Oh no! I had no idea! Our drake can be pretty snappy and he is the most obnoxious one. And he’s pretty aggressive the last week or so with mating with Fred. I would be heart broken if something happened to my hens, they are social and friendly and mine lets me carry her around and follows us. I...
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    Duck breed?

    We were gifted these obnoxious but cute ducks at just a few days old. They talk and make noise non stop! What breeds are they? They will produce eggs? We were told they would be laying ducks. We raised them with 3 chicks at the same age, and they all insist in sleeping together in the coop. We...
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    Too or hen?

    Ya we are learning as we go! We just bought a house in August with a beautiful coop and run and wanted to get 2 hens this spring. But a friend of mine brought my daughter 3 chicks and 3 ducklings for her birthday in August . I was livid! but we named them and love them. So sad our sweetie has to...
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    Too or hen?

    Thanks everyone! We are new to having a backyard farm. Our dark hen’s name is actually rooster, because she was so mean up until 2 months ago and quite mangy looking we thought she was a he
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