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On April 1 I placed 4 eggs under one of my broody hens. Unfortunately, the egg I really wanted to hatch had a thin shell. It took two days for that chicken to produce another egg! Ugh! Since I had two other broodies (those bantams, right??) I put the new egg under one of them. It would really...

I'm sorry if this is long, but I want your opinions so I want to give you a lot of detail. About a month ago, we had a hawk take out two of my girls, which took us down to 5 ladies. We bought three 11-week-old Easter Eggers, who seem very large for their age, on Nov 30 (17 days ago). I have...

My 3-yo Japanese buff bantam goes broody constantly. A year ago, she raised a 10-day old Japanese buff bantam (put under her wing at night) that turned into a rooster. In August she had a little hidey-hole with 7(!) eggs in a bunch of weeds. Three hens (and another rooster) hatched out, and now...

Since I have dogs, I visit the pet stores frequently. I have taken to visiting the bird sections to see if they have anything my chickens would like. I found these long plastic funnel-shaped hanging containers for millet feeders for about $2 each. I have hung them various places in the...

I thought my little bantam, Ginger, was a terrific mother up until now. She hatched 3 bantam chicks three weeks ago, one brown and the other two are black. We had a couple of rainy 40-50 degree days and so I didn't want the 3-week olds to get wet and chilled, so I kept them in their little...

Hmmm.. I may have done one of these a year ago, but the website is asking for another one. Enough has changed, so here goes! I first got rescue chickens in December 2015, two who were being picked on. I now have 9 chickens, after losing some to predators or illness. The man I got the rescue...

They are 3 new bantam chicks with a Bantam mama. I am worried that they will not poop. I put out tiny chick grit, but she is not pointing that out to them to eat. I even mixed it into their food in an attempt to get them to eat it by accident. Broody mama hen seemed to break up the scratch...

I've had chickens for about a year now. Dec 2015 I heard of two hens that needed rescuing from their mean coop-mates, so we got birds in the winter. Since then, we've had a fluctuating headcount. Got 2 Buff Os in February, got 2 Icelandics in March, and got 3 Marans in June. Lost one Buff O...