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    Broody Hens killing chicks that look different?!

    This is the first year I’ve had so many broody hens at once, 5 to start but two flaked out towards the end and left the other three rotating to save babies so I slipped the eggs in between three nests successfully. I have half of my coop completely locked down for the three broody hens and their...
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    The great hosta mowdown...

    New house this year with lovely garden beds that I’ve juts spent days weeding and mulching and one day gone and I come home to? Yesterday’s lettuce. Or something like this. They don’t regret it, I asked. I’m considering garden fencing everywhere but it’s a pricey installment. Will it work?
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    Two Broodies about to hatch should I move them?

    I have had two Broodies for about 4-6 weeks now. They just sit in the nesting boxes which are about a foot or two up from the ground in two side by side boxes. Of course other hens get in and lay eggs so there could be a ridiculous staggered hatch in either. One problem is they get off and then...
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    Broody mess...I think I have disrupted something I shouldn't :(

    So Marsha and Ruby have done a wonderful job of setting clutches. I have carefully left box one and two alone and only collected from the others. They are both first time broodies and would sometimes mess up and get on fresh laid eggs and abandon theirs. I figured not to expect much. Of course...
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    New hatch today under broody and store is out of starter...

    I ordered a bag which will be here in a week....that said, the guy said to me "well its a little late in the season..." Am I the only one with broodies every fall??? Mother nature wanted this lol! I just helped her along with picking breeds to strategically place! OK so I had pieces of tomato...
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    Should I move broody and babies?

    I have FIVE broodies...so its not as simple as moving the one hen and her current chicks really is it? Or should I move just her and then in three weeks when the others hatch their chicks where do they go? One is setting on three of the same olive egger eggs...but none so far have hatched...I...
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    5 broodies and their chicks Setup help!?!?!

    So I had one broody, then two...and you know how it goes...now theres 5 of my 12 chickens setting. When there was two I gave them both fertile eggs...and somehow they moved around like musical broodys in the nesting boxes...and well...my welsummer hen got lucky with a hatch so far of 6 after one...
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    Moving broody and eggs...now shes not setting?

    So the last time I had a broody I let her set her eggs right out in the open nesting boxes...and she would get off and get back on the wrong ones sometimes...but miraculously hatched her group. Then I had the hard task of setting up a section of the coop that would be safe for her and the peeps...
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    broody error need help...

    So Ruby my barred rock has been sitting on eggs for 12 days now. I hadnt sectioned her off yet from the rest of the hens...was going to do it this weekend but she has been doing fine Yesterday when we went to feed/water/collect eggs we saw her eggs with the "X"s in the box next to her and she...
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    broody sat on the wrong eggs...what to do

    So she has been setting so diligently...she must have gotten up to eat sometime today and then went back and set on the new batch of eggs. The fertile eggs were cool to touch ...and of course she went back to them immediately when I picked the new eggs up. So do I go up tonight and try...
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    Golden cuckoo....questions

    So talk golden cuckoo to me. I would love to see others pics and know what you are crossing to get the gold barring to further. I have a broody hen "Ruby" (not pictured here...she wasnt in the mood for photos today lol) setting upon 8 eggs right now (none of her own eggs). I hadnt thought of...
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    Broody barred rock questions....

    So our barred rock Ruby is definitely broody. I have been taking her eggs while petting her because...well...we eat the eggs lol and she is collecting them ALL and insisting that everyones eggs are hers to hatch . Now today I lifted her and saw that her whole tummy is bare...so did she pull her...
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    getting more blue/green layers and olive eggers...

    This is my first flock...12 chickens...I have 7 laying now and two that should lay by mid July or August. I ended up with 3 roosters. Of my 2 EE hens only one has the blue/green egg so I was thinking of breeding her at some point and incubating (next spring when I have more time)...so I have a...
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    9 hens 3 roos..what to do with roos and egg wants..

    This is my first flock...12 chickens...I have 7 laying now and two that should lay by mid July or August. I ended up with 3 roosters. Of my 2 EE hens only one has the blue/green egg so I was thinking of breeding her at some point and incubating (next spring when I have more time)...so I have a...
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    BCM pullet...please say pure pullet lol...

    My breeder had these crosses listed for me: Black Copper Marans Roo, Wheaten Marans Roo, Blue Ameraucana Roo, Welsummer Roo over the following hens: Cuckoo Marans, Deleware, Welsummer, Wheaten Marans, Black, Blue and Wheaten Ameraucanas. So my guess is not pure BCM. I am just holding out hope...
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    Roo? Cuckoo maran x

    Please tell me Zoe is not a roo....I swear lately she is looking more upright, leggier, and her tail feathers have me paranoid. Also what is she/he crossed with do you think? Heres the latest pics at 3 months: (crosses would be from: Black Copper Marans Roo, Wheaten Marans Roo, Blue Ameraucana...
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    what the heck is this awkward chicken lol?

    I think rooster though I have not had a confirmed crow? Age should be about 3 months now. I am driving myself nuts trying to figure the comb out....cushion, strawberry (not walnut right?). The closest pics on the internet that I could find were Chanteclers a canadian breed? Though the breeder...
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    pale or white yolks, sun and feed etc...

    So I have searched here and google. And I see that white yolks can happen. A variety of reasonings are presented from pigment based deficiencies, to nutrient depletion to sunlight deprivation etc. Heres the deal: I have 12 chickens. 7 of which are currently laying. They live in what I would...
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    what the heck is this?

    OK....I am now 99% sure roo...but whats with the the tufts at the cheeks AND the top of the head. Ameracauna crossed with what? White legs....Welsummer maybe? The possibilities were several different colors of Ameracauna, Marans or Welsummer. What is that topknot anyhow? Hettie is now going to...
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    Finally eggs!

    Mine were really late...so I went to drastic measures I drove two hours for 3 Red Stars that had been laying for two weeks...brought them home and each one layed an egg the first day. On the second day...everyone started following suit! We cooked the first 3 for the children since they...
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