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Our BO was a sweet, mellow, calm hen, probably bottom of the pecking order but our flock was calm and settled so you wouldn't really know it. Those days are gone... now that she's had babies (hatched one chick and adopted 4 one-day-olds), she's a different hen altogether. When the chicks were...

We just did a bit of a change-up in our run. It's about 25 ft. x 10 ft., roughly rectangular, fully enclosed with 1/4" hardware mesh along all walls, the ceiling (which is 10 feet tall), and underneath the sand floor. About 1/3 floor area of it has been made into a "sandbox" of alfalfa hay for...

Our flock of 8 had an RIR as the alpha for years and she was a calm, protective leader. She then passed, and an Australorp has stepped up and is creating a Reign of Terror. It's been well over a month now, but she still feels the need to assert herself by abusing the other girls. She still picks...

My broody hen spent the last week of her 21 days of clutch setting in a small portable run (2.5' x 5' x 2.5' tall) set inside the main run -- her "maternity ward," if you will. :p She had her nesting box and her own food, water, and space to stretch her legs and wings a bit ... very "private."...

Hi all, long story short, Mama Hen was sitting on eggs with low odds of success, so we gave her some day-old chicks on Day 21 and she happily adopted them. One egg actually did hatch -- hooray! -- but the other 4 were promptly abandoned. I don't own any sort of incubator and with the eggs being...

Placed an order last week from My Pet Chicken for 6 day-old chicks, to hatch yesterday and be shipped via USPS Express to arrive today. USPS tracking info says the box is still sitting in an Ohio warehouse. :-( MPC told me that USPS's tracking info is often quite delayed, and the fact that the...

I have a Buff Orpington, named Abda by my little son (who was a baby when we got her and had a one-word vocabulary of, you guessed it, Abda!) who has been broody for several weeks. About a week in, we decided to try letting her hatch a clutch of eggs so ordered a dozen fertilized eggs, which she...

I'm a longtime reader of this site, so figured I should at least do everyone the courtesy of officially introducing myself. There is so much experience and expertise on this site! (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? We got our first chickens about 5 years ago. Since...