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    Broody Banty Hen

    I took my Granddaughters young Banty Hen in a little over a month ago. I have an established flock of chickens and then hens mostly just ignore her. 3 weeks ago the banty decided to sit on 2 eggs (not hers) and I decided to let her hatch them out. This morning I discovered that one of the chicks...
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    Teeny, tiny egg

    I have 7 hens that free range. For the most part, they lay their eggs either in the nesting boxes or in a nest that they all love in a rabbit cage (no rabbits in there). Today, when I got the eggs I found a teeny, tiny egg. All 7 hens are a little over a year old. The only other birds on the...
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    Is this a hen??

    My husband and I disagree on the sex of this young one. I say it is a hen, he thinks cock. Junior is 11 months old. I have also attached a picture of her/his mother and Father. I would appreciate breed type identification as well. Junior is a mix!
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    Being a "mother" hen is hard work!!

    I have had chickens for many years but usually don't have more than one hatching of chicks at a time...until now... I have one hen that hatched 13 chicks and the other hatched 4. I believe I made a terrible mistake by assuming that just because the hens were raised together that they would be...
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    Chicks just hatched

    My son discovered last night...when he say a teeny, tiny head, that the eggs had hatched. I "risked" my fingers this morning to take a peek. Aren't they the cutest? Here's my question... there are several unhatched eggs left. I candled one the other night and know that it wasn't fertile. How...
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    Aggressive peacock

    I have a 3 year old peacock who was hand reared from an incubated egg. In the past 6-8 months he has become territorial and quite aggressive. He will not hesitate to attack if we are too close to his pen (which is open and was where he grew up) I recently acquired a female but both of them...
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