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    Please help!! Two broody hens and 2 dead chicks

    Oh and I forgot to attach some pics of our setup and the dead chick. The hens are Rhode Island Reds, and I should mention that the chick we found today that was still alive (but died later) was covered in parasites of some kind. Not sure if they were on it beforehand, or if it was once she...
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    Please help!! Two broody hens and 2 dead chicks

    Thanks so much for all your help and advice! I will give these things a try.
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    Please help!! Two broody hens and 2 dead chicks

    I don’t think it’s the same clutch because the one hen has been brooding for over a month now. But now the second hen is in there too, so I don’t know what eggs are from what clutch. When we tried to take them before to break the cycle, it turned out some were fertilized. Now we’ve found 2...
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    Please help!! Two broody hens and 2 dead chicks

    We didn’t put her in her own area at first because we just didn’t quite know what to do. Now we’ve separated the two brooders from the rest, and they have their own food and water. Is there anything else I can do to help them?
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    Please help!! Two broody hens and 2 dead chicks

    Hi everyone, first time poster here! 👋 We’ve been raising chickens for 3 years now, but this is our first experience with broody hens. We don’t have a rooster, but there’s one next door who visits, so we think he got to some of our hens. It started with one hen brooding; we waited the 21...
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