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    Broody hen banished from Flock

    Hi, I have a four year old hen who tends to go broody. This summer we had four broody hens. Broke three but let Toey have her way. Seven babies successfully raised. Usually the mother hen introduces the flock to her babies and over time all is well and we have one flock. From the start, this...
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    Sick hen

    Hello! I have a French Moran, two years old, who isn't on top of her game. Sort of hunched. For over a month, she's been low key. I thought it was a heavy molt. A couple of days ago, she was in the nesting box. I picked her up and she is very thin. And cold as it has been in the 20s and 30s...
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    3/4 inch stone for the run floor seemed like a good idea at the time . . .

    Hi, We have an 8 x 16 foot bus stop for a run that we put onto a "flooring" of 3/4 inch stone to stop critters (rats, voles) from moving in, and drainage. (Photo below is rough and still a LOT of work to be done but you get the idea.) We live in New Hampshire so it is cold and snow in the...
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    Broody hen deserting her chicks...

    I have a French Moran who went broody. I got a few fertilized eggs from a friend and now have 4 chicks. A month in, the broody hen has decided she'd rather be out and about. I am not sure if she is just wanting more space, (they have a fenced in area of about 10 by 15 and a 8 x4 coop) or if she...
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    Broody hen rejected chicks

    The best laid plans. I have a broody hen. VEeeeeeeeery broody. Two days ago, I put 4 wooden eggs under her. Yesterday, I moved her into the nursery and then off I went to buy 5 totally adorable chicks (two Isa Browns. Three French Wheaten Marans.) She apparently doesn't agree with me. This...
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    Hunched hen

    Hi, One of my hens is not well. She is hunched over. Tail down. Eyes closed. She was drinking water when I first went out there. She squirted out white poo. Viscous with some green element to it. (Describing chicken manure not my strong point.) No idea what to do. Saturday morning in times of...
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    Sexing Mutt Chicks

    The father is a Buff Polish. His hens (and the broody hen who is their Mom) are Speckled Sussex, Icelandics and myriad others. Any thoughts on if I have all boys!? I'm hoping at least the white one is a girl but. . ..
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    Crevecouer? Buff Polish? Pullets or Cockerels?

    I got these two chicks in obeisance to (one of) my broody hen/s this summer. A friend had received 10 broilers and the hatchery tossed in these two (I assume they are boys ugh). Not positive about their breeds: And then there is the other broody hen who defeated me. Four chicks. Cute...
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    Too late to remove Eggs from broody hen?

    This is embarrassing to admit. Irresponsible is a word that comes to mind. I have been contending with broody hens all summer. In August one defeated me. I gave her two exotic chicks that a friend had received with her ten “broiler” chicks. With the understanding that my friend would take them...
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    What breed is this chick?!

    Ihave looked and can find nothing like him/her. I know the blond is a buff polish hoping a girl. But the black one s a mystery. Guesses? Boy or girl ? 5 weeks old. Was all black chick with white chest.
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    Chicken Sexing Once Again

    Ah, how many times does someone post asking to sex chicks? Sigh. My broody hen would not be broken and so, defeated once again by a broody, I took on these two chicks. A friend had just received ten broilers and the hatchery threw these two "exotics" in. I have little doubt they are boys. I know...
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    Broody Hen Boxing

    Five of our 15 hens have gone broody in the course of the summer. One of them--she had been broody on and off, in and out of the dog cage, for two months--beat me into submission. Three weeks ago, a friend of mine had ten broiler chicks arriving. The hatchery had thrown in two "exotics". She...
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    Twisted neck due to weasel attack?

    Hi, I adopted five hens from a woman last week because she had lost four hens (owl and weasel) in a week and was too heartbroken to risk more lost. I brought the dearies home and have them separated from my flock. One of the new girls--Jersey giant, 10 months old, had been laying but hasn't...
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    Vitamin A deficency

    Hello, In my six years of chicken life, I have had 29 chickens. Six have died of cancer. The vet tells me it is a Vitamin A deficiency. I am waiting for my favorite hen to die (of cancer) and now my room (who is a jerk but still. . . ) has broken tail feathers and his beak seems to be peeling...
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    Nine hens, no eggs

    Okay, I have five old hens (three 4 year olds, 1 three year old, 1 two year old) and four pullets (born in April--two cochin and two speckled sussex). Love them all. But not one of them is laying. Yes, we are entering winter months. But three eggs in over a month? Really? We have a silly roo...
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    Chickens & Cancer

    Hi, I have, over the course of 5 years, had 20 plus chickens. The first year, I lost a 6 month old pullet to cancer. Three years later, I lost my RI red rooster to cancer. I lost three for causes unknown as they keeled over without symptoms (that I noticed.) Two weeks ago, I lost two to cancer...
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    Road Chicks?

    I know show birds do a lot of traveling but what about your basic, free range, almost feral chickens? We are going to move to a second home (mother's, where some of our chickens spent their chickhood) for six weeks this summer while renovations happen at our home. We are about to rehome our...
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    Cream Legbar Cockerel traumatizing my three year old Dominque hen

    Hi, Ah the continuing Soap opera of my chickens.... I ordered 4 Cream legbar pullet chicks this past summer when my Austrolorp went broody. AUTO sexed, as you may know. Long story short, I now have one cockerel and two pullets in my flock of eleven chickens. Given the circumstances, I had...
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    To keep or not to keep handsome Cream Legbar Cockerel--any takers?

    Hi, I've been surfing cream legbar posts to find an appropriate place to post this long-winded question: I ordered four (auto sexed ahem) cream legbar females from My Pet Chicken. They arrived. TWO were cockerels. One cockerel died of natural causes within a day or two. The other, six months...
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    Gapeworm?

    Here I am again about my RI Red cock. He is three years old and has been sick for two months. I have posted previously about him. Took him to vet who dewormed him, de something else him and suggested vitamin drench three times a day. That was three weeks ago. Red has lost a lot of weight, his...
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