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    how can i encourage my silkie hen to go broody ?

    I wish I could get mine to STOP going broody - I finally got her to stop after four weeks or so and two weeks later she's broody again! Good luck!
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    My hen is crowing - can I make her stop?

    We have a one year old cochin bantam who has been a good little egg layer for us. She was at the bottom of the pecking order of our four hens because of a hurt foot early on. She went broody this spring so we got her some chicks to mother, which she has done a good job with, but she started to...
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    Noisy dominant hen

    We have the same problem - our one year old cochin bantam has suddenly started to crow constantly. It's really an awful noise, and she looks just like our roosters did when they crowed (before we sent them on to another home). We are in the city and I don't want to bother the neighbors...
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    Hello from the "Northwoods"

    Quote: We're from Central WI as well - Stevens Point. Where are you?
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    Did mom kill chick? Should I try again?

    I'm new to chickens and this is my first time trying to hatch anything with hens. I have 4 bantam hens and two of them (cochin and silkie) went broody so we got them some fertilized eggs to hatch. I got two quail eggs for the silkie because we thought that would be fun, and we were so excited...
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    Hello from the "Northwoods"

    Hi - I'm pretty new to the chicken thing. We live in the city and last year a friend of mine, who raises chickens, suggested that I get some chicks for my kids to raise for the summer and then send them on to her at the end of the summer. So we did and we've had a ball with them! We got about...
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