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    Mama hen gone crazy?

    About a week ago, I tried letting my mama out to free range with her 4 chicks at rhe same time my other four hens were out. The hens never bothered the babies. However Mama chased and dominated the hens, not protecting the chicks, but taking over the dust bath hole, the waterer, etc. The hens...
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    Success with our chicks--May be helpful for other newbies

    We had a hen go broody for the first time. So, we decided to let nature take it's course and we got 10 eggs from a farmer. We separated Mama from the coop and put her in a large outdoor rabbit hutch with a cardboard box and plenty of shaving. She hatched 4 eggs . We kept her right in that...
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    Mother that is sweet and then mean!! Help

    My sex link hen has been sitting on her eggs. The chicks just hatched today. She stands up for them to go under her and everything. I picked one up to check it's butt, and it peeped really loud. The mother became alert all of a sudden. I was putting the chick back when the mother acted like...
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    Baby Chicks That need water...How??

    Ok so our chicks just hatched today. They will need water but our problem is that (yes the mother is still in there) the water is on the other side of the cage. But the chicks and the mother are in a box that has a 2 to 3 inch lip in front. How do we give the chicks water? Should we take...
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    Eggs about to hatch. I am so stupid!!

    Well we have a hen that is sitting on some eggs. There are bound to hatch in about 2 days. We are going away about a week after they hatch for 3 days. We are not sure how to take care of them when they hatch and we don't know what to do while we are gone. Please help us. After they hatch...
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    Egg Problems

    Ok my chickens are laying eggs like usual but they should be laying darker eggs than this. And the shells are very weak. We picked one up and it just shattered. We are not sure what is going on and we give them oyster shells. We have since they started laying. But our eggs are lighter than...
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    Weak egg shell

    Only one of my hens is laying a weak egg shell. I give oyster shell along with their feed. You can poke your finger thru it when you pick it up. Any suggestions? It has happened about three or four times in the last 2 weeks.
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    Again. Broody Hen

    Alright so my hen is brooding. We bought her some fertilized eggs since we have no roo and we can fit in at least 4 more chickens. So we move her but she won't sit on them. So we put her back in the coop and she is sleeping when we slip eggs under her. She wakes up and now she is taking care...
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    Broody but no roo...Problems with being a foster hen

    OK my hen is brooding but she has no eggs (they all roll back through a slot) and we have no roo. We talked to the man we bought the chickens from and he gave us some fertilized eggs for her to sit on. So we got a rabbit cage ready and put the eggs in there and then we put her in there. Well...
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    Chicken that is broody

    My chicken is about 1 year old and she is a black Sex-Link. She is broody but she isn't brooding. We have no rooster and she has no eggs to sit on. If I put some fertilized eggs under her and she hatches them, will she accept them as her own? I have 5 other chickens in the coop and the...
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