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    Poppy & the Giant Babies

    I haven't posted here in ages but have an interesting and similar thing going on right now! I have 18 and a half chickens- 1 rooster, 17 assorted adult hens, and 1 eight-week old baby who was hatched and raised by an adult hen. Mom did the usual 'I'm done at 6wks' and singlet baby was a bit lost...
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    Graying Olive-egger?

    No expert, but my guess is she is getting her adult coloring. Our chickens change colors from baby feathers to adult feathers. And being an olive egger, who knows what is in there, for feather coloring, I am thinking. Maybe? :)
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    Fall brooding? Story and questions

    I need to check her again today for a baby count, but yesterday was her due date and she had one little baby. :) No idea on breed as our rooster is a Polish- _____ mutt and I have no clue who bio-mom is among all the different breed hens we have. This will be our last clutch for the year, as...
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    Fall brooding? Story and questions

    If it were me, I would likely let her be. The last time I messed with her on the nest, I later found 3 dried out baby sized carcasses. I don't know exactly what happened, but wonder if my having messed with her to check on eggs caused her to kill some hatching or just-hatched eggs. But my hen...
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    Fall brooding? Story and questions

    varidgeruner and centrarchid, those are awesome pics! What breed are those dads? My mutt Polish Crested/?? has never been that fatherly! :O
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    Fall brooding? Story and questions

    I also have a broody right now who is due next week for hers to hatch. I have a fairly large pen and coop everyone lives in, and within that a separate pen and small nursery coop for the momma-to-be. As soon as she goes broody, I grab her and put her in the nursery coop with the eggs, food, and...
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    How and What To Feed Backyard Chickens

    Ours are in a very large pen (think neighborhood sized yard, we live rurally). We throw no food away. They get all scraps to go through at their will, the rest becomes dirt/mulch/type stuff in their pen. I buy them a nearly organic, non-GMO seed based feed that is locally made. I don't feed...
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    Fencing for babies, broody mom question

    So these other hens are driving me crazy! I moved broody and eggs to her own little nursery coop. For the first day or so I left her access door blocked so she settled in and also so the other hens let her be... I figured she was settled enough and took the blocker away, figuring the other hens...
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    Fencing for babies, broody mom question

    Oh my gosh!!! Glad to hear you survived with the fence's help and that all the babies were fine and safe. :) Hopefully we don't have that issue. Previously, knock on wood, there was never any problem. But she only had 3... I let her have 10 eggs this time, though no clue yet on viability of...
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    Fencing for babies, broody mom question

    Good to know she wouldn't try to go back in the nest box... I don't think leaving them in is a great idea still though, because they would hunker down right under the roosts and get pooped all over. :O Yelch, lol I just decided to not fence her in at all this time. I bought a used dog house...
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    Fencing for babies, broody mom question

    :) Yeah, after I posted this, I found my old threads... I let her brood 6 eggs 2 years ago, got 3 babies... I had them in a pen within the big pen, separated for 3 weeks, using 'baby' chicken wire (small holes). They escaped at the 3 week mark and I quit fighting them, so I removed that and let...
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    Fencing for babies, broody mom question

    So the simple way of asking: **** 1) Is the larger holed chicken wire safe for preventing hatched babies from going through? Or will they have no desire to go away from mom? (Or by the time they want to, they can't fit?) Our chicken pen is roughly 40x40 ft or bigger. it is field fencing...
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    After care of assumed vent gleet

    So I have a Buff Orpington hen who has *I assume* to be vent gleet. (No one else of 15ish hens and chickens is sick) She shows all the symptoms that are associated with it: Very dirty stinking butt, and she liquid spray-pooped very stinky poop on my when I picked her up. VERY lethargic, fluffed...
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    Hen making funky sound

    Eeks. I think we are going to have to butcher out a rooster soon. We have a set of almost 2 year old brothers we hatched out. They already ran dad out, whom I rehomed for his own good... this time we eat!! lol Hope your hen gets well quickly!
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    Hen making funky sound

    Roada... I wondered if I would have to resort to youtube... An update though-- whatever it was, she stopped doing it by the next morning. And is definitely acting normal. Anyhoo, thanks everyone. :)
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