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Part 2 to "Thread 'Ex-broody hen not laying eggs 4 MONTHS after hatching'" https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/ex-broody-hen-not-laying-eggs-4-months-after-hatching.1619456/ TLDR; Hasn't layed in 4 months post hatching and her fullgrown children still want to sleep in the nest with her...

Put an egg in the nestbox to stimulate her - she decided to go broody and sit on it!

Will try feeling around her butt - she was eating chick feed before that

Would have blocked them off long ago also but I've been away at uni and am only back for 2wks - and then will be gone again till june. Parents r not the most interested in their welfare. These are the only chickens, I've also only just started letting them out to roam around the yard when I got...

Here is mama hen keeping watch over her GROWN 4 month old babies, who are fully capable of taking care of themselves. She has fully regained her pre-brooding weight for atleast 2 months, and molted after brooding, still no eggs. Am at a loss. They hatched in december and it's now beginning...

I return with my 3rd post of these 3 chickens, who are now almost 4 months old (3 months 3 weeks). Hopefully they will finally be old enough to definitively sex! I've been confident for a while that I have 1 pullet (n.o 1), and 1 rooster (n.o 3), but n.o 2 is throwing me off. Has a smaller comb...

combs here for good measure.

Combs not very visible in pictures as they're a rose combed breed so hard to tell & at the moment they all look the same. Believe 3 is a pullet and 1 & 2 are roos, but wanted some input to be sure. Basing mainly off the neck feather shape and the fact that 3 feathered significantly earlier than...

Only 1 month old so too young to really have any certainty, esp w/ no comb development. However have noticed some distinct differences in feathering - especially 3 being covered already and 1 and 2 still being mostly fluffy down. Would this make 3 likely to be a pullet? Any speculation on all of...

Devastated and posting this as hopefully a warning to prevent another accident like this occurring. Have been putting mama hen and her 4 babies out in the run during the day and back inside at night for the past 2 days, and one of the chicks just died under the regular feeder the hen (used to be...

thankyou! will get a bag for them. saw other posts mentioning to turn the leftover dust from crumble into mash so will do that as well.

Hen being housed indoors just hatched 4 chicks yesterday and they are so small they can only eat crumbs. I would just give them chick feed, but mum is eating the same food & I don't want her to get an upset stomach from it. Saw someone saying they just crush regular feed to chick size, so i...

in aus - currently spring and about to head into summer haha

She's a plymouth rock & has been sleeping indoors while we fix up the coop. Will probably need more alterations after the possibility we get chicks.

Recently had a fox attack that killed 2/3 of our hens - we've had one in years past but it didn't leave any survivors so am unsure how to care for this poor lonely traumatised hen. We do however want to get back to our usual egg rates as soon as is possible without stressing her out, and last...