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    Help my beloved spitz flock was killed by a bear

    I live in north central Pennsylvania high in the mountains in a little village called waterville. My house is right on pine creek so my bottom yard is highly used from all wildlife. I have never had an issue with bear, but our area is a tourist area for camping and the tourist think its a good...
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    Help my beloved spitz flock was killed by a bear

    Thank you so much
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    Help my beloved spitz flock was killed by a bear

    Yep u heard it right, I had 2 bear come in and rip my coup and run apart and murder 10 of my feathered children. After the crying my eyes out for days and dealing with trapping and relocating the bear it dawned on me to incubate some eggs to get some children from my franklin. He was last years...
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    Three broody hens attached to one peep, four in a brooder and six eggs in a temporary incubator.

    All six eggs in the fish tank on the heating pad hatched!!
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    Three broody hens attached to one peep, four in a brooder and six eggs in a temporary incubator.

    Thanks Thanks so much! It's been crazy here! Lesson learned for the future!! Not sure the other eggs will make it but it's pretty hard to judge because this is a staggard hatch
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    Three broody hens attached to one peep, four in a brooder and six eggs in a temporary incubator.

    It all started last Sunday when I heard the first peeps from the coop, boy were we excited, proud, and over joyed. The stress and anxiety was finally over, I was so excited to see my girls taking care of there babies, taking them out of the nest for the first time, showing them the food and...
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    Emergency Incubator - What have you used?

    My hens abandoned six eggs, I have four babies inside with me and three hens currently loving just one peep, I do not have an incubator so we are using a heating pad with a cup of water in a bucket my husband cut down to about five inches in height. I candled the eggs and there is movement in...
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    Very new

    I have a question, how long do I allow the hens to sit on the other eggs that haven't hatched, I do believe they are at different stages because all the hens where laying in the same box. We started hatching on Sunday, well that's when we first saw and heard them. I have had to rescue three...
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    5 broody hens on a mess of eggs

    I'm in the same boat, one broody hen turned to three part way through, I have been on baby watch for three days. I have had to rescue three babies because when one of the hens jump out to eat, stretch and do there business they are going back up into the box and not making a nest lower to...
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    Very new

    Good morning from a newbie in PA we have 2 golden seabright bantam and four appenzeller Spitz, three are currently hatching babies and can't wait to see how they look!! Feeling very excited in PA
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    Broody hens kicking babies out of nest

    Yep I know how you feel, at ten days I checked on my first broody and god love her she had eggs all around her because the other hens kept laying in her box so we candled the eggs and allowed her to have thirteen. The next couple of days I had to check under her and remove the ones I hadn't put...
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    Broody hens kicking babies out of nest

    Thank u so much great info!
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    Broody hens kicking babies out of nest

    Thanks, they had 13 eggs under them and I have three inside and I seen another baby tucked up under Stella, I did leave that baby alone because it wasn't coming out and being real curious. Do u think once the bulk of the eggs hatch they will make a nest lower for those babies?
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    Broody hens kicking babies out of nest

    Your right there are still eggs to hatch. I had one become broody then two more followed 3/4 the way through. They did great and didn't break any eggs, I was worried because they all are in the same roost. What they did close to the end was rotate coming off the nest, but for the last three days...
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    Broody hens kicking babies out of nest

    Hello everyone, I am a newbie to allowing my hens to hatch there own eggs. They did great sitting on the eggs but now that some have hatched they seem to kick them out of the nest and not stay with them. I have had to bring three into the house to save them because they are not protecting them...
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