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    I want to raise more chickens but none of my hens have ever gone broody. Can I choose one of mine to make it go broody?

    I want to raise more chicks. I have never had a hen go broody in the four yrs that I have been raising chickens. I read that you can make one of your chickens go broody. Which one of my chickens would be a better mom: Americauna, Black sex link, Brown Leg horn, Dominique. Thank you!
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    The local Pizza Restaurant is giving us their scraps of pizza and salad.

    Hello! The local Pizza Restaurant is giving us their scraps of pizza and salad. I really want to stop buying 50lbs of feed every month. What is the maximum percent of pizza scraps that I can give my chickens? Thank you!
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    Chicken LIttle, 14 months old losing a lot of feathers in "cold" California winter

    Is she molting or what? There are a ton of feathers falling out from one of our Americaunas so I figure it's our oldest lady molting. Let me know what you think. Thank you!
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    Our 6 month old chicken ate a foam earplug

    I'm so sad. I think we will find a dead chicken when we get back from vacation. Our adventurous one went in to the laundry room and ate an earplug from the floor. I'm thinking of trying to make her vomit. I haven't been successful doing this in the past. Help! Does anyone have experience...
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    chicks sleeping in nesting box and not on roost! Tips Please!

    Tips, please! We moved our eight baby chicks (7 wks old) from the wool hen inside the dog crate (inside the run) to the coop where the big girl, Chicken Little sleeps. They have been sleeping behind the curtains in one of the nesting boxes. I have shown them the roosting bars and made them a low...
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    Wool Hen for day old chicks!

    Hello! We are very excited to say that the wool hen that we made seems to be working. I posted the video showing the quiet girls (hopefully all girls!) in their "wool hen". I only found a couple videos online and had to figure out most on my own with what we had in our stuff that was going to...
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    Maya chicken stopped laying, eating and stopping pecking others. Now...

    Maya the brown leghorn was our first layer (white eggs, so easy to spot) in March. This week, she stopped laying then stopped eating and pecking others. She was sitting by the waterer while the others were zooming around outside in the sun. We separated her and gave her epson salt baths and...
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    My young americauna just started laying and now broody?

    Hi All! I need your input please! My Americauna has been hanging out in the nesting box on a fake egg most of today except when I brought them some meal worms. She has been laying for only a week and already laid an egg today, but she is staying in the nesting box sitting on the fake...
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    How high is too high?

    Hello! Well, we had a tall wooden arch thing that usually goes over your entry gate. We cut it down to about 2.5 or 3 feet tall so the chickens could use it in the run to sit on. Well, they love it and walk up there using the ladder I leaned against it. When the want to get down, they all look...
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    New to chickens and loving it!

    Hello! I have gotten so much out of this site already. We got six baby chicks born 10/11/17. The run wasn't ready so I got babies to keep myself from grumbling about the run not being done. We just moved them from the laundry room in the dog crate to their beautiful big girl run and coop. We...
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