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    feeding your chickens...chicken??

    They love chicken...whenever i get a chicken carcass i throw the whole thing in the coop and they clean it to the bones.
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    New Chick Help

    So Broody and 4 chicks were moved successfully yesterday into their temporary home. So we left them alone in the coop for the last 24 hours. Today it was getting a bit warm so i opened up the coop door to let some air in and she quickly jumped down and scratched around a bit. All the chicks...
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    New Chick Help

    So being new to this, she went broody last year around July, we had no rooster at the time, and the fertilized eggs i gave her to sit on ended up not being fertilized. She didn't go broody again until 3 weeks ago, so I guess that's my question. If she's got this broody instinct, is it going to...
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    New Chick Help

    So I will candle and toss the non-developing eggs this afternoon. Anything that looks like it's close or has pipped obviously will stay. I still think I'm going to move them just to keep the coop less crowded and have space for their food and water. I'll do that this afternoon also. It...
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    New Chick Help

    I didn't see a broody thread so posting here. Our broody has been sitting on about 11 eggs for 3 weeks. She went broody again when I was out of town and my wife couldn't get the eggs marked so she started with 5, and now has 11. Since she went broody in the favorite nesting box, the other...
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