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  1. gabby3535

    How long............???

    Hypothetical question.......... If I have a hen who JUST went broody today.......can I buy day-old chicks from Tractor Supply, and pop them under her NOW? In other words.......is just 1 or 2 or 3 days of being broody "enough time" for her to realize the chicks are hers to mother...............or...
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    Wheezing hen, advice please..........

    One of my Ameraucana hens began wheezing yesterday. She does this on inspiration and expiration, and then occasionally shakes her head and makes a clown-horn noise. I have her isolated. I put Vick's vaporub under her wings and under her nostrils. I am about to worm her with Ivomectrin. A friend...
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    Prior friends......now fighting!

    I have 2 young roos (Ameraucanas) who were raised together, and who prior to yesterday, were friends. Yesterday they were fighting (hackles up, going at it with spurs.....tho' no damage......chasing each other around the run, etc) Last night they were both in the coop with the girls, roosting...
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    Advice please, Little Giant heater base......

    BUMP, please
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    Advice please, Little Giant heater base......

    Just bought a Little Giant heater base for my metal waterer.......but now I'm having fire concerns! My coop has many inches of 'dust-free' pine shavings on the floor. The actual "flooring" (below the shavings) is some sort of "pebbled", hard, white plastic composite material. I plan on...
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    4 week olds, outside with hen......heat needed?

    One of my hens has 3 chicks which are still with her (they are 4 weeks old)....... I know she'll be cutting the apron strings soon.....and I'm wondering if the chicks will be warm enough without her at night in the coop....without her body heat? They have been with the rest of the flock since...
  7. gabby3535

    Molting......or something else???

    Bump......hopefully, for more replies.
  8. gabby3535

    Molting......or something else???

    I am the original poster of this question, and just an FYI.......I don't have a roo.....
  9. gabby3535

    Molting......or something else???

    One of my hens is missing feathers on her back, under her wings, and on the 'shoulder' area of her wings....... here's a few pics of her..... She is the ONLY hen who looks like this....... she is eating, drinking, pooping, and acting fine...she has 3 1/2 week old chicks, was broody for about...
  10. gabby3535

    Straw or hay????????????

    I've always thought 'hay' was okay as bedding in the coop..........and if the girls actually 'ate' some of it, that was fine. But, the other day, a friend who has chickens told me 'she' was told to always use STRAW in the coop....and NEVER hay..... that chickens won't eat straw, but might eat...
  11. gabby3535

    Funny broody behavior...........

    I had a hen who appeared to be going broody.........so I waited a couple days, then got her some fertile hatching eggs. The eggs arrived yesterday.......but now she does NOT appear to be broody!!!! (Last week she was always in the nest box, unless I removed the eggs.... this week, she is out...
  12. gabby3535

    Questionable broody??????????

    BUMP! Someone please tell me what to do with the hatching eggs that just arrived............ Can they sit around for a couple days, and still be good to put under her......? Or should I put them under her NOW, and hope she gets the idea? Aren't eggs ok for days in a nest while a hen in laying...
  13. gabby3535

    My Broody hen is driving me crazy

    I just had to break a broody hen within the past week........... She had gone broody in May, so I got her some hatching eggs (which all failed) then finally had to pop 3 day-old chicks under her....which she went on to raise like she had been doing it her whole life!! Good mama! But a couple...
  14. gabby3535

    Questionable broody??????????

    I ordered some hatching eggs for a hen I thought was going broody.......... well the eggs arrived today, and now I am not convinced of her broodiness after-all!! Do I hold the eggs off for a couple days, before putting them under her, to be 'sure' of her broodiness? Or do I put the eggs in her...
  15. gabby3535

    Egg recall for salmonella! YIKES

    Battery-caged, factory-farmed, living, breathing, feeling, sentient beings........................... AND YOU WONDER WHY THERE IS AN "ISSUE" WITH SALMONELLA WHEN THIS IS HOW THEY ARE TREATED?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?! **edited to remove activistic link and for language**
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    Egg recall for salmonella! YIKES

    Battery-cages are how 99% of big agri-business, or 'factory-farmed' chickens are kept, in amazingly cruel confinement their entire lives! In mega barns........with hundreds of thousands (!) of hens crammed into small battery cages.........where they have less than 6 x 7 INCHES of space to "live"...
  17. gabby3535

    Egg recall for salmonella! YIKES

    Hmmmmmmmmm.........couldn't possibly be any kind of issue of how "factory-farmed" battery-cage hens are kept, raised, housed, stressed, etc.etc.etc., not could it?!?!?! "Factory-farming" of sentient beings is sooooooooo wrong on sooooooooo many levels! My organic, free-range, happy hens are just...
  18. gabby3535

    Internal layers???

    Can a hen, who is about 1 1/4 years old, and who has been laying eggs just fine up until about 2 months ago, be now laying internally? Or do internal layers NEVER lay eggs at allfrom the get-go? i.e. can a formally normal hen suddenly begin laying internally? What would be her...
  19. gabby3535

    Egglaying & flock dynamics when chicks are present????

    Bump.......Can anyone reply, please??
  20. gabby3535

    Egglaying & flock dynamics when chicks are present????

    Can anyone tell me, please, what's going on here? I had a hen go broody about 7 weeks ago or so. Got her some fertile eggs to hatch, and now, presently, she is raising 3 little chicks within the flock. When she originally went broody, the egg production of the other 5 hens dropped off a...
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