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    when to move mama and chick back with flock?

    We have an 8 day old chick that hatched under our broody hen(Only 1 egg of 5 developed). Mama and baby are now in a 4x4 cage that is all set up for them. We have 10 other hens all around the same age (1.5-2years) so this is a first for all of us. The entire flock has free range of about 1/2...
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    1st time broody hatched a chick!

    So excited to report that our 2 year old Black Australorp girl had her first broody cycle ever and successfully hatched a chick! She sat faithfully for all 21 days even as the 5 eggs we gave her dwindled down to 1 tough little egg through no fault of her own. :) We had to leave the day the chick...
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    Is this a quitter?

    We just candled our 3 fertile eggs. 2 look clearly different than this one. They are all 10 days old. Is this one not developing?
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    broody and rotting eggs

    Hello! We have a broody sitting on 3 fertile eggs. So far so good hopefully minus one mishap. We'll check them at 12 days (2 days from now). We had to leave for the weekend and returned to gather eggs and found 2 "new" unfertilized eggs under her so we added them to our gather. I noticed that...
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    Hen abandoned clutch after moving them

    We have a 2 year old BA who went broody. We let her prove it for a week then called a friend for some fertilized eggs (5 of them). At the time she was located inside the coop in 1 of the 3 nest boxes we have available for our 10 hens. We stuck the eggs underneath her and voila. She has (had)...
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    Ravens stealing eggs

    We just found out that at least 2 ravens are stealing our eggs on a daily basis. I looked online for tried and true remedies but didn't find anything definitive other than one post that said a lady used a rat trap with a fake egg taped to it. I don't want to accidentally catch either of these...
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    4 hens sitting on one clutch..who will be the mama?

    We had been considering letting one of our broody hens hatch some chicks. To our surprise as we began to let her lay eggs in her secret spot up under the eave of the coop and didn't collect them, 3 more hens followed suit and began laying and taking turns sitting there! When one would get up to...
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    Rooster sitting on eggs and flock stopped roosting at night....

    Hello! My daughter started this profile a while ago but this is the first time I've written. INFO: mixed flock of 10 month olds and 8 month old hens and 1, 10 month old rooster who was raised up with the hens from a chick. Breeds: Black Australorps(Roo+3 hens), Buff orpinton(2 hens)...
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    new pics of possible cockerel...??

    Sorry for posting a new thread! I can't seem to find my other one...I'm new at this. Anyway, some had asked for closer pics of one of one of my 11 weeks old Black Australorps that I was questioning. I've put our main "crower" on craigslist and contacted our local 4-h group to see if anyone...
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    Cockerel or Hen? Black Australorps

    Hi, We have 6 Black Australorps all purchased at the same time that turned 9 weeks old this Wednesday. We are sure that we have AT LEAST 1 Cockerel based mostly on him clearly crowing in the morning several times when we let them out of the coop (pictured FAR RIGHT). The picture I attached...
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