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    Blind Chicken individual cage acting drunk

    We have a Barred Rock that is about 16 months old. When she was 4 months she was blinded by the other hens, so we put her in her own cage and she has become our pet. We would let her out when we were able to watch her. Today she is acting drunk. She has been in her cage and not outside the...
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    Broody Hatched her first chick, now what?

    Our Broody Hen just hatched one of the 4 eggs we let her keep. Now what? Do we leave them with the hens and try to get them to eat chick food before the hens eat it, or do we take them away? When I was young we let the hens keep the chicks but I don't know how many of those survived to adult hood.
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    Egg Thief

    We have Barred Rock Hens and none of them have been even the slightest interested in sitting on their eggs until now. We have a hen that just started being broody. She was being really aggressive when we took eggs from her until we decided to let her sit on 5 eggs which we marked. Once we left...
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    5 Month old with broken toe

    We have 4 - 5 month old chicks which have been picked on by the older hens. 1 is getting braver about trying to join the flock, 2 are still hiding from the older hens, and then there is Ruby. Ruby who was the same size 1 1/2 months ago, is now 2/3rds the size of the other 5 Month Olds, she...
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    Hen or Rooster should leave?

    We were given a Hen (Ida) who looks like a brown Barred Rock and a Banty Rooster (Frank) in May '14. Ida was laying 4-5 eggs a week. They were both about a year old. A week later we bought 6 - 1 week old Barred Rock chicks. Turns out there were 5 hens and 1 rooster in our 6 chicks. We...
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