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    How do you make your chickens more comfortable with you?

    Great job at telling how to befriend your chickens. Well done. I like to do that when someone is watching because its so fun to watch some one should get to see. Its like talking chicken. I had two hens that I hand fed at least once day and eveintially a Rooster too. They came to me as...
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    To Move the Nest or not

    Did you say I am in a flock.?
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    To Move the Nest or not

    It was horrible...just horrible. My son had told me that day you better do it now mom. He couldn't believe they had not been eaten yet. 17 days they were. My partner with the chickens said its to late now. I got the other two in their old house inside their new coup, the door closed safe...
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    To Move the Nest or not

    Thanks, that is what I thought. I just really wanted her secure before they hatch. She is out in the open with no way to protect her. She has one board leaning over her up against the house. I had no idea she would start sitting like this. It was a suprise.
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    To Move the Nest or not

    Hello first new thread, I guess I am introducing myself and my chickens. I've got two hens, laying and one of them has sat on a nest for 17 days. She only gets off for a few minutes every day to eat and drink. My problem is she is not in a safe place to hatch her babies.. We live in rural...
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