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I've noticed one of my hens is injured she's the only Plymouth rock I have. Earlier she suddenly lay down and my Sussex hen kept pecking her but she wouldn't move which is strange because she usually runs away. So I picked her up for a minute and then let her expecting she would fly down...
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I got a new silkie hen. I had her penned all day to get her used to the coop. But at bed time I put her inside the coop and my Rooster started attacking her and even one of the hens, I have 3 other hens. so I had no choice to take her out and put her in a box in a shed, she is right...
I have a four month old chicken and she keeps attacking me out of no where. Every time I turn my back to her she runs at me and pecks me on the back of the leg. Once time she even left a mark from this. She also clawed at me one before. I have picked her up a few times but she still continues to...
My rooster has been acting up lately. Today when I was feeding bringing water to my chicks in the brooder he ran into the back of my legs. I incubated these chicks and have them in a brooder in a separate shed from the chicken coop. So I don't think it was him protecting the chicks(he never even...
I need advice. I have 5 eggs in my incubator. Two have hatched one more is hatching( it pipped over 24 hours ago and is now zipped about half way. It has been making process very slowly since 9am this morning, it is now 4.22pm. It chips every now and then and seems to kick but its progress is...
Hey, I need some advice. I have 5 eggs that are due today two have already hatched. One yesterday and then the second early this morning. The third one appears to be hatching it pipped yesterday and seem to be hatching. When I woke up this morning it has made progress. But it seems to be very...
I have a broody lying on eggs for 28 days now. And I still have no chicks. Only one hatched a few days ago and it was dead when I went in the coop. My have started off with about 5 eggs 28 days ago but none of them have hatched. She started taking more eggs 5 days after going broody up to 2 a...
I have a broody light Sussex hen that I hatched last year. She has been lying on eggs for 22days now over a few are 21-22 days old but the rest are 5-7 days older. The oldest eggs haven't hatched yet but today one of her eggs cracked and the was a small forum of a chick in it. Some yolk got on...
I have a 3 and a 1/2 week old chick. I recently built a new indoor coop beside my chicken indoor coop. I have a broody hen inside the chicken coop. When I put the chick in yesterday for a while. Everytime I picked her up and she squealed to protest the broody hen was reacting by coming of her...
My broody seems to abandoning her eggs. She started off with 5 eggs 9/10 days ago. But the last 4/5 days she has been taking more eggs. I marked her eggs yesterday when she went out to egg but when I went to let the chickens out (2 hens and a rooster) who are in the same coop as her. There where...
My broody hen have been lying on egg for about 9days she had 5 eggs under her for about 5-6 days and then she started taking more eggs from the other hens she now has 9 eggs. But there is a 5 day gap between her new eggs. What will I do when the first five hatch? Should I just leave the other 4...
I have a 10month old broody hen, she have been lying on eggs for 4days now. This is my first time with a broody hen so all advice is welcome. She comes out every morning to eat, I make sure she gets food, she goes back in to the gets after that and doesn't eat anymore. Is she getting enough to...
I have a still air incubator. But I was wondering what the best incubator would be? Still air or auto turning? I have had a low hatch rate with my still air so should I get a auto turning or are there better incubators to get? I will be hatching eggs soon so I would appreciate any advice:)
I think my hen might be broody so I have a few questions on broody hens:)
1. How often does a broody hen eat a day?
2. Is it safe for a hen to hatch chicks in the coop with the other chickens? (I have a rooster and two hens in the indoor coop where she is laying on eggs)
3. My hen is young...
I have a 3day old chick and its currently eating chick crumb. I was wondering if I should feed the chick a hard boiled egg each day or is it okay just eating chick crumb?
I recently incubated chicken eggs, this was my second time this year. The first time wll the eggs were clear when I candled them so I started again. This time only one chick hatched the chick is a healthy 3day old. But the other eggs where infertile. I read somewhere that you should feed hard...
One of my hens that I hatched last year has been laying on eggs all day, she even put a few under her that I put beside her and every time I went near her she screamed at me to back away but when I put some food beside her she started to eat it still laying on the eggs but a few minutes later...
I recently moved my 2 hens and rooster in a coop with my younger hen who hathed last year. One of my 2 hens is laying under a rose bush. When I moved them every morning she would be let out she would run around to this rose bush and lay. At first we didn't know where she was going but one...
I'm having a problem with this hen. Ok so my rooster pecked my mother so I went outside to handle him for a while so he wouldn't become a problem. I have done this before when he pecked me and after that he didn't try again. But when I went to pick him up this time one of the hens started...