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    2 hens gone broody - can I just let them be?

    I have 2 cochin girls that have gone broody - in the past the one i have put Ella in chicken solitary / in a wire crate for 5 days and that sorts her our for quite a while. now Rhiana has also gone broody, we are having temperatures well below freezing at night and I think it would be dangerous...
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    Best vine for growing on chicken run fene

    I only have 5 hens - but that is plenty for our family. They have a 5' chain link fenced chiken yard 12' x 20' and it is covered with a predator netting, which has worked brilliantly so far. I want to plant som vines to grow up the chain link fence and also some vines that will grow up the...
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    Has She Gone Broody?

    Ella is 6 months old and has been laying an egg every day and a half until this week and she has laid an egg every day - yesterday I noticed she was on the nest every time I went to check the hen house and finaly about 5pm there was an egg under there. Took the egg, she was not pleased. lol...
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    Is there such a thing as the egg shells being too hard.

    My girls have just started laying 1 for 3 weeks and 1 for 3 days and 1 had her first egg today. I never found any rubber eggs or wierd eggs. These eggs from the very first have had very hard shells. My Nephew dropped one on the way to the house this am and it cracked slightly but was not at...
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    Do your girls do a lot of "squaking" and "clucking" when they lay an egg?

    My full sized cochin hen is a bit over 20 months old and laying eggs for about 3 weeks we get one egg about every 36 hours usually late afternoon or evening - for the last 2 days there has been an egg in the nest 1st thing in the AM. The first time I arrived at the hen house, right when the...
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    By George I Think She's Got IT!!! Finally Laying in the Nest!

    Well it seemed like forever - but after finding 5 eggs over 5 days, under the roosting poles - My Blue Cochin Ella Fitzgerald finally laid an egg in my 5 gallon nesting bucket!!! I don't know who was more eggcited lol me or the other hens. While I was visiting the hen house Miss Ella went...
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    what time of the day do your hens lay their eggs?

    Got my first 3 eggs yesterday ffrom 5 hens - but I know 2 of the girls are still very young like 12 weeks and not read to lay yet. I went out this am all excited and NO EGGS - have to tell you I was crest fallen - opened up the coop gave them their treats for the day and went back to the house...
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    FIRST EGGS ! unfortunately not in the nest lol

    I have 5 hens the oldest is blue cochin, Ella is 20 weeks then Beyonce, a partridge cochin is 17 weeks, buff orpington is 16 weeks and the black cochin and copper maran mix are 14 weeks. Found 3 eggs this am under the roosing poles - have read that this is not abit unusual - one of the 3 was...
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    Another chicken behavior Newbie question LOL

    I am rebuilding my small flock - preditors took 5 of my 6 hens - so I had a lone partridge cochin 3 month old hen. Last sunday 7/22 I purchased 4 new hens (2 cochins, 1 buff orpington cross and 1 BC Maran cross) All very docile healthy hens - obviously been handled a bit. I made a separate...
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    Repurposing and Using what you have for the Chicken house

    I really wanted to keep a small flock of chickens - but did not have the funds or the carpetry skills to build a separate chicken coop - I decided to use the corner of our Detatched Garage/barn/storage building. I am really into trying to "re-use" and "re-purpose" items so they can be useful...
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    have a lonely chicken girl - need advise

    Unfortunately something ??? we can all guess -got 5 of my chicken girls- leaving behind my heavy bottom girl Beyonce a partridge couchin. I had ordered and just received netting to go over and cover their yard the next day, but sadly - either they flew the coop and went gosh only knows where or...
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    Hello from VA - I have a lonely Hen and need advice

    Hi my name is Gail I am a country girl - have raised horses, poinies,goats.... but never Chickens. I have a friend who ordered 25 ornamental chicks and gave me 6 chicks when they were 2 months old. Two mottled Houdans, a Golden Camprine, a Grey Dorking, and a Salmon Favorelle and a Partridge...
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