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    mean chicken

    Fairly recently one of my 12 girls has decided to sit most of the day in a nest, and when anyone tries to lift her to see if she is sitting on eggs, they get resoundly PECKED! I have left her on 2 ceramic eggs to see if she is going broody, but find her in another nest next time I visit. I...
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    To Broody or not to Broody...

    Here it is, the end of August, and I have one chicken that likes to sit on all the eggs and I'm wondering if this may be a good time to allow her to do her thing. I gave her two ceramic eggs to tend to until I get more information. Question #1 is this too late in the season to let her start her...
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    breakfast is served!

    Uh oh, I think I may have a problem brewing in the coop! Today was the second time in as many days I have found suspicious activity in the nesting box and I'm getting worried that one of my hens may be enjoying an early morning breakfast. Yesterday was an egg, broken in half with most of the...
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    How can this be??

    I HAD 12 chickens and one died (that's another story) and today, with 11 chickens left, I gathered 12 eggs from the nests. How can that be? Can some chickens lay 2 eggs a day? Sure, I COULD have miscounted, but, hey, I thought I did pretty well between one and twelve!
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    Baby, it's cold out there!

    I'm new and we are expecting COLD temperatures out there this coming week. My girls have been handling 30's to 40's OK so far, but I'm wondering what else I can do for them to handle temps going down into the teens. I have a heat lamp, but it doesn't seem to do much. Their coop is solid, but...
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