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    My usually broody hen didn't brood 😫

    Hi, I have a 7 year old buff orpington who has gone broody the last 5 years. The first year or two I broke her of it, 2 years ago I got day old chicks for her to adopt, and last year I got hatching eggs. This year we have a rooster and I was excited for her to go broody and hatch some of our own...
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    My chickens stopped laying?

    Hi, I have 7 chickens (buff orpington, wyandotte, brown leghorn) who are about 1 year old. They were laying sporadically over the winter, but started up again in about February or March. They've been giving us 5 or 6 eggs a day for weeks. Suddenly this week we've gotten 0-1 every day. One of the...
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    Baby chick with crop issue?

    Hi, I have 5 chicks that are about 10 days - 2 weeks old. 2 of them (my Easter eggers) I noticed this afternoon had huge distended crops. This is my first time raising chicks, though I've had chickens for 4 years. I called the farmer who sold them to me who suggested I take out the wood chips...
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    High chick mortality rate

    Hi everyone, I have been keeping chickens for about 4 years, but I've always gotten them as 8-16 week olds. Ive never felt like I had the time or appropriate set up for babies. (6 kids, 3 cats, a dog, and a husband who says chickens are my project so it's fine as long as he doesn't have to deal...
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    5 hens pecking 1

    Hi all, I have 6 hens (4 golden comets, 2 americaunas) all from the same farm, all around 5 months old. 3 of the comets are laying reliably (newly), 1 just started, but nothing from the americauna. Today I heard them make a very strange skwak sound so looked out to see what they were doing. I...
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