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    Keeping Chickens Free Range

    Kmac - Sometimes we just need more land so we have less neighbors (or at least more distant ones)
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    INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

    @Sally Sunshine Our 1st broody hatched 5/6 yesterday. We looked at the 6th egg- looks like died in she'll. smelled horrible. Put it in the trap and caught a coon overnight, so put to good use. We grafted 4 blue andalusians on her last night- currently appears to be successful. We are...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    PD- thAnks for the picture. Very helpful
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    Thanks. What do your pens look like? How big are they? We are set up with a couple large fenced yards for free-ranging with a few coops with communal nesting boxes. One small coop works well for one broody-it has a good size run attached to it as well. The only other area I can easily convert...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    I have a broody hen that was sitting on eggs for 1 week. She got out of the broody coop/pen today (not sure how or for how long)- but she could not get back in. Eggs were at ambient temperature (70s) when I got home. When I put her back in the enclosure she went right back to the eggs. Not...
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    INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

    Oops- I skimmed right past it, already on the list
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    INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

    Sally, you can add the teacup for spraddle leg, or Coban
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    INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

    Happy to report the chicks from the Easter Hatch-a-long are all thriving. Should sell them as I don't need any more- but I am happy to have finally gotten things 95% right with so little effort. Thanks for the knowledge- duplicate/appropropriately calibrated monitors and ventilation make a HUGE...
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    INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

    I'll only check if she leaves the nest. I had a broody last year and it was a mess. Several eggs cracked and made a mess. Two hatched. We grafted a few more chicks on the hen... And then a raccoon got all the chicks and watching poor mama search for the young was the saddest sight ever
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    INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

    Thanks. I'll leave her alone
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    INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

    My broody seems to be doing well. Do you try to candle eggs under Broody hens, or just let nature run its course?
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    North Carolina

    My welsummer lays a darker egg than my Barnvelder
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    The 7th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long!

    And a picture of the cuties!
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    The 7th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long!

    All 11 that made it to lockdown are hatched and hyper!
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    INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

    Yay! All 11 eggs that made it into lockdown hatched! :weee
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