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    How many eggs can my broody banty cochin cover?

    Hi, all. I bought 6 Welsummer and 6 Ameraucana eggs from Inside Yolk through this site, and he very generously sent me 8 of each. I don't have an incubator, I bought the eggs to try to take advantage of Bootsy going broody (again!). She has hatched out someone else's egg before, but I can't...
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    Was it the cat?

    I wouldn't think the raccoons and possums would be hungry, even in January, because I'm in an urban-suburban area ... lots of trash cans and dumpsters to go diving in. But it sure does look like a coon kill, with the head gone right next to the fence. Not a fox, huh? Whatever killed it, I...
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    Was it the cat?

    Quote: Thanks, DragonFeathers & everyone who responded. There were a lot of feathers, but all pretty much close to where the body was. I've lost chickens before and found nothing but a scattered pile of feathers, no body, and figured that was a hawk. Yes?
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    Was it the cat?

    Hi, all. Today I lost a smallish hen (a blue araucana) to a predator. The head was missing altogether, and she was ripped open. It happened in broad daylight, next to the back fence of the yard. I live in an urban area, but have a big back yard that backs up to the train tracks, so it's a...
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    GOT THEM! :) WTB in MD 4 started pullets, pet quality, various

    I got 4 lovely pullets from BYC member chickenpea today. Thanks chickenpea! Regina
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    GOT THEM! :) WTB in MD 4 started pullets, pet quality, various

    Hi, folks. I'm a city chick with room for 4 more good laying hens. I currently have a silver polish and a black "araucana" but they're not laying any more. But they're nice girls, so at least for the time being they can stay! I also have one roo, a cross between the polish mama and a serama...
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    when will mama hen start laying again?

    yeah ... they're pretty daggone cute!
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    when will mama hen start laying again?

    *sigh* OK, I get it. I sympathize with her, she's been a real hero. Newbie me would have broken up any less determined broody, trying to make sure she was warm and comfy while she was setting. I moved her from the coop (only one nest -- only two hens!) to a separate cage on the porch, to the...
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    when will mama hen start laying again?

    oh ... weeks? months? Thanks. I'm just feeling my way along ... somehow I thought she'd start laying again a few days after they hatched out. Oh well. The peeps are worth it
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    when will mama hen start laying again?

    I have a mama hen who hatched out a mini-clutch (3 chicks) a week ago. How soon should I expert her to start laying again? She is being a great mom, by the way. Thanks Regina
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    Broody hen -- any day now!

    I finally dug out the Storey book, and am absorbing the info .... one answer, already -- I need to get some chick starter feed. I was thinking that since the grown-ups are getting layer mash now instead of pellets, the little ones wouldn't have any trouble eating it, but now I see that there's...
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    Broody hen -- any day now!

    Crow went broody about 3 weeks ago ... Of course I'd been taking the eggs up till then, but the other hen, Bebop (I only have 2 plus the little roo) laid four more in their one shared nest, which I left for her. At that point I made a separate nest for the broody in a dog kennel, on my porch...
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    funny chicken sounds

    I guess the first thing I did was to set her in her rabbit cage out in the yard where they could walk around her and sniff her out, for a while. Then I made them get back in the Eglu run and let her loose while they were penned. It really hasn't been much drama for them to accept her -- during...
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    funny chicken sounds

    You know, I would LOVE for her to be with her chicken friends, and they get along wonderfully during the day but at night they fight if I try to put her in the Eglu with them. The big hen chases her (besides her there are only one Polish hen and a little Serama roo, who were here before her)...
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    funny chicken sounds

    The little Easter Egger pullet sounds like a telegraph machine. She beeps CONSTANTLY. Like she's reciting War and Peace in Morse Code. It is MADDENING, since she hasn't been admitted to the coop and is actually spending her nights in the kitchen. I'm about to drown the little critter...
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