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    One Chicken Dead, One More Sick, Help?!

    Hello, so about a week ago we noticed one of our roosters was acting a little funny; he wasn't with the rest of the flock, not super active, and just kinda depressing. So we picked him up and put him in one of our extra stalls with food and water mixed with antibiotics for chickens. We thought...
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    Chicken Abandonment

    I had heard wet sand with a heat lamp overhead can work, but will it work for chicks about to hatch, and does it even work at all? I really hate to lose any chicks for any reason.
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    Chicken Abandonment

    Okay so I had one hen who was sitting on about eight eggs for the course of three weeks. Then, all of a sudden, yesterday I found her off her eggs and they were kinda cool. I put her back on them and she sat down, but then when I got back from school I found her away from the eggs again, one...
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    My chickens won't go into their coop at night, how can I help them?

    We actually had a problem similar to that at one point with our old coop. It might help to get some flimsy chicken wire or something of the like, and enclose off the area around the well. Just enough so they can't get to stand on it. They might realize that the coop is easier and safer. Hope it...
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    My chickens won't go into their coop at night, how can I help them?

    Hello everyone, Sam here. I have around 45 or so chickens as to date, with about six or seven broody hens sitting maybe 20 more. Now, we had kept most our chickens in two coops, one big another small, and our houses storage unit. Of course, not liking how it kept getting dirty in there, we...
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    Blind chick feeding help.

    Hello there, I have a hen who recently hatched out a couple of chicks from different parents. Most of them were fine, except one. She was born blind, with her ear holes where her eyes should be, and malocclusioned, her beak wasn't aligned. I was going to let her pass naturally, but too my...
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    Two Natural Incubations at Once

    Hey there everybody So I just found out that two my of hens now are setting. This happens way too often at my house hahaha. Not to long ago Caesar and his girlfriend Cinna hatched out four little chick's, two silkies and two bantams. Now Variae is sitting on eleven eggs, mostly silkie...
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    Help, Lost little chick!

    Thank you for taking the moment to read this. This morning I left for school and closed the door to my room, locking the one that leads to the bathroom, and left my five little chicks inside their box. Normally, this is fine as it pretty much has always been since we've been keeping chicks...
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    Anyone Setting eggs on 4/10/12??? Want to hatch with me?

    I think she was stating that chickens are descendants from Dinosaurs, which isn't entirely incorrect.
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    Taking chicks from their mother?

    Sorry, I meant to say aren't. They are the two that aren't the same breed as their "mother". She was pecking at them earlier and apparently didn't want them. They are super happy now and too precious.
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    Taking chicks from their mother?

    I actually removed them from momma and they are perfectly happy. They now hop on my shoulders and come when I sing hush little baby or due a three tune whistle. Their mom seems fine, it's funny how they are the two chicks that aren't the same breed as the mom. Must have something to do with...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Hey everyone! My d'Uccle eggs started hatching tonight!! Two have externally pipped, five have internally, two not yet, and three more still have about a week to go (late starters). Their mom will keep pecking at me until she draws blood, even if my hand stops moving. I did a test and...
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    Taking chicks from their mother?

    Hello, thank you for any and all help. Here's the situation: I have a hen that recently hatched out some eggs. They are about a week or two old now and beautiful, but very frightened of people. Their mother won't let me near them to play with them daily so I can't seem to get them to be...
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    1st time - attempting Broody hatch

    It is fine for you to have moved her. She shouldn't leave the nest if she truly wants to hatch out the eggs. I would suggest moving some of the shavings from her original nest as I believe chickens use the to tell their nests apart in some sense. They really do settle down much faster when they...
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    D' uccle eggs and chicks for sale3

    This should be under Chicken Breeders and Hatcheries or Buy Sell Trade. You'll get better replies there, promise
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