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    How long can new chicks wait for others to hatch?

    My broody hen's eggs have begun to hatch. One last night (19 days), one today. There were 5 eggs under her so 3 more to go. I will have to move the little family's nest out of the tack room into a stall before I can let them move around. Hen has been shut up because of snakes after her eggs (ate...
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    Thin broody hen

    I have a hen that has recently gone broody. I have been hoping one of my hens to do this for a couple of years. However, this hen is already much thinner than her buddies for some reason. I was afraid she was ill until it became plain she was broody. She has only been setting steady for a couple...
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    Sick hen, thin, depressed, losing feathers,

    My 2yo Java hen has been laying thin shelled eggs for 3-4 months in spite of extra oyster shell available. In the last @3 weeks she has started losing a few feathers, randomly. Yesterday I noticed that she wasn't moving right and would fluff up and sit while the other hens were ranging. I...
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    Shelter for Freedom Rangers in the garden?

    I am considering buying @25 Freedom Ranger chicks to go into my <1yo 1/8 acre organic garden space next spring. It has been planted in alfalfa this winter as a cover crop. The cover crop is meant to improve the new garden in addition to possibly providing food for raising the meat chickens. I...
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    Broody hen- Dealing with the heat

    I have a broody hen (BO) that I'd like to let hatch some eggs. She has done this before and is a very good setter and mother but I'm concerned about the heat this time. It wasn't so hot before; now it's >90*, sometimes as high as 98* in the daytime, high humidity. She has a stall in the barn...
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    Allergic to chickens? or something wrong with my flock?

    I have had my chickens since last July when I got an order of chicks from McMurray. Everything seemed to be going along swimmingly until this spring when I began to get the itchies! My hand, arms and eventually my stomach would break out in a rash and itch whenever I handled a chicken or touched...
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    How long will hen continue raising these chicks?

    I have a BO hen with 9, 3 1/2 week old chicks that are doing super. The hen is a terrific first time mother and the chicks are all healthy. I'm wondering how long the hen will continue to look after them. I free-range the little family all day with the dogs to watch over them and have been...
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    Hen with "hiccups" and all fluffed up *Update*

    One of my Buff Orp pullets is now sleeping in the nest instead of on the roost. This afternoon she was walking around outside with her feathers all fluffed out and holding her wings away from her body. She was giving little regular jerky inhalations like hiccups. I was gone all weekend so the...
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    Pullet ADR no apparent reason

    I have a Buff Orp pullet, @6mo who is not really thrifty. She has been a problem for a while, actually. When she was a chick>young pullet, she seemed unhealthy and I gave her extra vitamins (not an especially easy task) and it seemed to help. At the time she was uneven in her gait and wasn't...
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