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    Moving a hen sitting on eggs safely?

    Hello all, We have a broody girl, she's been on 16 eggs for a week now. Every once in a while we find the others eggs under her that she scoops out after they lay to add to her clutch. She is in a nesting box in the main coop with everyone else (3 nesting boxes and currently 3 other laying...
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    Found dead hen in coop

    Hello, I had 5 hens 2 years an maybe 3 months old. They were free ranging all the time until about 3 or 4 weeks ago we had an attack by a redox that took out a mama and 5 of her chicks (I posted about that at that time). So now we have the 5 remaining hens and 2 chicks that are 2 months old...
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    Red fox here....how do I get rid of it?

    So I posted on Friday and Saturday about my chickens and babies being under attack. Lost 5 babies and their mama and was suspicious of a fox. We have kept the girls locked up tighter since then. Secure run unless we are home and in the vicinity, otherwise contained in a larger run, but not...
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    Just lost 3 or 5 (maybe 6) out of 7 babies and have an injured hen, what now?

    So I just went out back to check on my hens and chicks. We had 6 adults and 7 five week olds. We let them free range in the back yard during the day, it is a fenced in 1.5 acres. (Yes, I know things can climb fences, just meaning I don't think anyone just wondered off). We just finished...
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    Question about hen weaning/leaving her chicks

    Sorry in advance for the length, just wanted to give the background info up front: So we had donated fertile eggs that one of our 6 hens hatched right at 5 weeks ago. I know it's about time for the wean. Here's where my questions come in. So we had her sit on her eggs in a nesting box in the...
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    New member

    Hello, We have had chickens for about 2 years now, just let a broody hatch her first set of baby chicks. Hatched a couple days ago and now I have questions as the internet isn't as forth coming about this situation as just raising them in a motherless brooder :) Although I have consulted...
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