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    Imtroducing Chicks to Broody Hen

    It’s more the problem that the CHICKS won’t accept her, they are much too old, and she is a stranger. In my experience, you can put chicks UNDER a week old under a broody.
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    Giving new chicks to a mama hen!

    I’ve done this before. If you are able to move her to her nursery area successfully (i.e. she settles down on eggs and stays broody) you could sneak the chicks under her at night (dark) and she will be in love in the morning. I was happy with this experience, because the hen’s health didn’t...
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    Belgian d’Anver Rooster needs a new home

    Thanks for the good ideas ! I will look.
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    Belgian d’Anver Rooster needs a new home

    I did ask the feed mill (where I bought him, who also raises them for the 4-H kids), to advertise his availability. It’s been a few weeks and no results. It just seems like someone with a lot of bantams might want him?
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    Belgian d’Anver Rooster needs a new home

    He’s too small to “make it” with most of my ladies. Handsome, though.
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    Thank you! The big 60.

    Thank you! The big 60.
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    The worst luck with Belgian Quail d'Anvers!

    I bought 4 today, and the person selling them said that if the hatchery tries to determine the sex on bantams, it is too hard on them and they arrive at the feed mill on their deathbed or already dead. Maybe this happened to them?
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    First time broody hen - first time chicken owner - help?!

    I hatched one egg (that had a couple days left to go) with a regular heating pad in a plastic box with wet washcloths around it (not touching it) and a towel over it to keep the humidity in. The baby hatched for a house-sitting niece and she let it run up and down her arms and shoulders while...
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    My bantam is sitting on two fertile buff Orpington eggs, need advice for after they (hopefully) hatch.

    I, too, have broody bantams that constantly want to be Mommas. I have let them hatch regular-sized eggs, but I would not let them have more than two, as the Mom has trouble covering the babies at night with her body. Do you have a place you can move her, away from heights and distractions and...
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    Prefab Chicken Coop Rip-Off?

    We bought one when we were newbies 7y ago and use it for a broody nursery with her chicks. We have also used it for a jail when there is a misbehavior issue, or a last night location for a rooster that is to become soup the next day.
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    Thanks a lot!

    Thanks a lot!
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    Oh thank you! I did not know I had a profile to write on. I am learning!

    Oh thank you! I did not know I had a profile to write on. I am learning!
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    Is 2 days apart too far to place eggs under broody hen?

    Thanks everyone for the replies. Broody #1 with three eggs is in her own house, with a heated floor and food and water. Broody #2 with my ”important” egg is up in a 4 foot high nest box for now, but I can move her to a separate place inside the chicken yard that I have set up, soon. I will...
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    Is 2 days apart too far to place eggs under broody hen?

    The pieces of the eggshell were pretty far from the nest, but I get your point. I wonder if this is normal though.
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    Is 2 days apart too far to place eggs under broody hen?

    On April 1 I placed 4 eggs under one of my broody hens. Unfortunately, the egg I really wanted to hatch had a thin shell. It took two days for that chicken to produce another egg! Ugh! Since I had two other broodies (those bantams, right??) I put the new egg under one of them. It would really...
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