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    Comment by 'Willoughby' in article 'Nesting Boxes: Everything You Need to Know About These Coop Essentials'

    Thank you for your input. And jeansweezey, I wouldn't mind if they slept in the nesting boxes, the problem is that they are messing in them and it isn't clean for the eggs. The nesting boxes are a mess!
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    Comment by 'Willoughby' in article 'Nesting Boxes: Everything You Need to Know About These Coop Essentials'

    Wonderful article! I hope you can help me solve my problem with the chickens sleeping in the nesting boxes. I have 11 chickens, 8 of which are hens. 6 nesting boxes. When I just had the 3 hens there was never a problem; now with newer hens they all want to sleep in the nesting boxes, which...
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    Comment by 'Willoughby' in article 'Nesting Boxes: Everything You Need to Know About These Coop Essentials'

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    2017 BYC Calendar - Your Pictures Needed!

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    2017 BYC Calendar - Your Pictures Needed!

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    Newly hatched chicks in a second story nesting box

    Just have to add that this is so exciting . . . I feel like a proud mama myself!!!
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    Newly hatched chicks in a second story nesting box

    My black sex-link hen just hatched her first chick, which seems to be a roo if the black mark on its head is any indication. We have 2 other hens and a very aggressive rooster. Should I separate the chick from the rest of the flock? What about the mama?
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    New Chicks or Eggs to Eat???

    We didn't expect to hatch chicks, nor do we really want to. I'm not sure what to do next . . . remove the eggs now before they hatch? And do what with them?
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    New Chicks or Eggs to Eat???

    I'm just realizing that my sex-link hens must be hatching their eggs. They haven't gotten out of their nesting boxes, and I haven't bothered them by trying to recover their eggs. I thought at first they were sick. Now I'm guessing they are hatching their eggs? I have no idea what to do. We...
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    Aggressive Rooster

    Thanks so much for the feedback! We'll give Webster a little more time, and see what happens . . . About the nesting boxes, I'm stumped. Everywhere I looked when we were planning the coop suggested placing the boxes a little higher off the floor. They're built-in . . . I'm wondering if I...
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    Aggressive Rooster

    Our lovely black sex-link roo, Webster, has become not so lovely these days. He has attacked my fiancée, Greg, and managed to puncture his calf with his spur. Although I told Greg it "was only a flesh wound", still, it hurt. Just yesterday Webster tried to attack me, and I held him off with...
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    Ended Official BYC-Mini Contest - Post a pic of your chickens with your other

    This is our precious Hemingway Calico, Saphira, asking for HELP!!! Our roo, Webster, and his ladies, Cami, Hazel and Poe, are invading Saphira's space - - and they helped themselves to her food bowl. It ended up with Saphira escaping without a scratch, and the flock enjoying her supper!!!
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