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    Broody hen gave up with 4 days to go

    I had a broody hen. I bought 6 fertilized eggs from a local farmer and placed them under her. Sadly chickens ate 5 of the eggs as they laid new eggs. I checked last night and she was still sitting on them. I check now, the egg is not warm and she is not sitting. Is it too late? Should I...
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    Hen with a limp

    In May we took our mature hens to stay at our lake place and purchased five baby chicks at the store to restart our flock at home in the city. All was fine at first. They grew indoors, all were happy and healthy. When they were big enough I moved them outside. After they were outside for a...
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    Buff Orpington injured

    About 6 weeks ago a neighbor's dog got into our back yard and attacked our free ranging chickens. One chicken was killed. Another one, a Buff Orpington was injured. She lost a 2-3 inch strip of feathers from her head all the way to her tail. She looked horrible, a completely bare neck. She...
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    Keeping chickens off the deck? Scare them away?

    We live in the city and I let my chickens free range roughly 50% of the time. We built a new deck off of our kitchen with stairs going down into the yard. The hens keep coming up the stairs and pooping. It is really starting to piss off my wife (who is not a big fan of the chickens). I don't...
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    Broody hen in an elevated coop. Can the chicks survive a 3 foot fall?

    My chickens usually go broody around March 15th. I moved since last year and the coop I built at the new house has an elevated inside structure where the chickens lay eggs and stay when the weather is too cold. The ramp up and down is about 12 inches wide and very steep. My concern is that...
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    Aggressive chicken seriously harming other chicken

    I have 3 chickens; Dotty (a barred rock), Buffy (Buff Orrington ) and Gertrude (a dirty white colored chicken that I can't identify). Gertrude is extremely smart and can be fairly aggressive. Lately she has been picking on Buffy and doing serious harm. Buffy got to the point where she would...
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    Why aren't my hens laying?

    I have 5 hens, 2 are too old to lay, the other 3 are roughly two years old. I have a timed light that goes on around 2AM to make sure they get plenty of light. They quit laying in early December. I noticed they seemed to be molting so I turned the light off until last week and now have it...
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    Video of chicken with defect. Does anybody recognize the problem?

    Our hens hatched some chicks back in April. Early on one of them had a noticeable limp to her walk. Now that they are 3 month olds it is very noticeable. She quit sleeping on the roost 6-8 weeks ago and sleeps under some boards in the coop. Please watch this video and let me know if you...
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    Can baby chicks fit through chicken wire?

    I have 2 new baby chicks out in the coup with the other chickens. Is it possible for the babies to fit through the chicken wire and escape/be eaten? The only reason I ask this is because last year down at our lake place we had purchased a mother and babies. We went home to the city on...
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    Success!!!!!!!

    My hen hatched two baby chicks! Here is one of them. They are just a few days old. When mama let's them up they are hopping everywhere and can not be contained. I thought they would be trapped by the 2x4 that is the front of their nesting box but they just hop right over it. Moments latter...
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    Is this a viable egg?

    I have encountered this look in an egg more than once, can somebody please tell if it means the egg is no longer viable? I have seen it in eggs on day 14 and also in other eggs on day 22, so I am guessing it is not viable. Shining a flashlight through the egg shows a dark mass with an air...
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    Broody chicken, delayed hatch, dead chicks, viable eggs? Help?

    Today is day 26. Broody chicken did not hatch any eggs on Day 21. Eggs started hatching naturally on Day 23. I don't know if all the hatching took days or hours. I only saw one chick on Day 23 so I thought this particular hatch was taking place over days, not hours. This is the count so...
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    Need advice, brooding day 23

    First time trying to hatch chickens. A hen went broody and was sitting on infertile eggs for 3 days. I went to a friend and got 12 fertile eggs and swapped them out one morning when she got up to eat. Day 12 I candled with a flashlight. Not very bright flashlight, but I could see dark...
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    How long can fertile eggs sit and still potentially hatch?

    Here is my predicament. Three weeks ago three of my five hens went broody. They live in two different pens. I was anxious to hatch my first chicks so I ordered some eggs on-line. I simultaneously changed one of the nesting arrangements to make it less of a shelter and more of a nesting box...
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    Do my chickens need walls in the winter?

    Here is my set-up. I took an old frame playset and converted it to a chicken coop. It is 4x20, with breaks every 4 feet. I put chicken wire all around it. It has 1 by 6's for the roof, with gaps of about 1/2 inch. Otherwise it is totally open to the elements. The height varies from 2 feet...
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    I can't get my chicken out of a neighbor's tree.

    We had just brought our chickens home from our lake place to our house in the heart of Kansas City, but before we could get them all in the new coop one of them ran/flew away. This particular hen is great at flying. A week went by and I had just about given up hope of finding her when our...
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