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    Can extra chicks mix with broody and her own chicks?

    The chicks hatched last Sunday/Monday. 7 hatched under my broody hen and only 4 from the incubator, which I put under her at night. She seems comfortable sitting on 11, 8 bantam and 3 LF. I have a brinsea heater in the brooder with them. Sometimes the chicks pop under but they don’t seem to need...
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    Can extra chicks mix with broody and her own chicks?

    Thank you for the thorough advice and varied experience! We’ll see how the final numbers hatch out and proceed cautiously accordingly. In the meantime, here is Dovey, my EE bantam sleeping on her eggs. She’s slightly purple from recovering from a hawk attack two months ago. Fully healed but the...
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    Can extra chicks mix with broody and her own chicks?

    I don’t think this was answered elsewhere but given the topic, it is hard to search! I have a bantam broody sitting on 9 eggs and an additional 11 eggs in an incubator. All were set and should hatch around the same time. My question is: when they hatch, can I keep both the broody hen, her...
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    Hello!

    Thanks!
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    Is my bantam EE a pullet or roo?

    This chick is 6 weeks old, a bantam and a sweetheart. What do you guys think: is she a pullet or roo? she feathered quickly, doesn’t have any red on her comb, but may have three rows? In the pictures you can see that she sometimes extends her neck—I’ve seen roosters do this, but is it exclusive...
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    Hello!

    Just introducing myself and our chicks. Hello! I’ve had chickens before but it’s my first time raising them from hatching. we have 5 seven week old chicks and 2 five week old chicks: mix of cream legbar, Wyandotte, French Marans, Orpington, Swedish flower hens, golden comet and one little...
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