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    Will hen eventually accept chicks after rejecting them?

    We let a broody hatch some chicks but we wanted to introduce a new breed of chicks, so we picked up a few day olds from a local source and tried sneakily adding them to the others when they hatched the next day. The mother immediately recognized them as not hers and would peck them when they...
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    Tips on supporting a brooding hen and new chicks you cannot access?

    I’ve got a construction debris pile in my backyard that I know some of my hens have been laying inside occasionally. But I recently discovered that one of my Delawares went broody in it. It’s a very stable pile and probably one of the safest spots in my yard. The closest I can get is probably...
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    Is broodiness heritable through the rooster?

    Sorry if this is a dumb question. Probably should've paid more attention in genetics in college. If I cross a rooster of an extremely broody breed with a hen of a less broody breed, can I expect that next generation of hens will be somewhere in between the parents' breed on the broodiness...
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    Why did two chickens die just before I butchered them?

    My wife and I have been building up the courage to start butchering our own chickens for meat. Today was the day we decided to make our first attempt. I went a couple hours before the time we’d planned to do it, and caught 2 of them and put them in some old nesting boxes to keep them calm and...
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    Strategies for dissuading free-range hens from laying in ad-hoc nests

    It's my first Arizona summer with chickens, and I recently learned that their coop is too hot for them to comfortably lay eggs in during the day. They laid in the nesting boxes I built them for about 9 months, and then one week, I started finding caches of eggs in random places across the 1.25...
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    Help me solidify an idea I have for growing fodder?

    I can't remember if I saw it somewhere else already, but an idea occurred to me and I've been googling around to see if it's something others have done successfully. Unfortunately I can't find anything. The idea is to create a closed half tunnel using some wire fencing material or chicken wire...
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