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    My broody - one hatched and died, other three didn't hatch...advice?

    Ok, I'll try to make this brief, I had a broody (Lady Bird) who successfully hatched 5 chicks out of 7 eggs (6 hatched, we lost one baby after one week). She's busy being a great mom. While she was broody our chicken Ginger decided she wanted to be a mom too. SOO for about a week she sat on a...
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    My first Broody's eggs are hatching today! I have a question please.

    My favorite girl, Lady Bird has been sitting on eggs for her first time and they have been hatching today! My question is, can I move her to a separate space that I have prepared for her? They hatched a day earlier than I expected. I wasn't quite ready to move her until this afternoon. All but...
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    Freaking out - Broody hen on eggs two weeks...mites, I think?

    Ok, I'm freaking out right now...Lady Bird (my queen girl) first time broody (both for her and for me as a chicken keeper). She's been sitting on eggs for two weeks. I noticed she's taking her break right now so I ran out to see her, and check on her eggs etc... I said my hello to her, and went...
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    Broody Hens - First it was Lady Bird, now Ginger!?

    Hello! It's been 13 days since Lady Bird decided to commit to sitting on eggs. She's sitting on 7 eggs, she's been doing a wonderful job. She sits on them 24/7 only taking one break a day to eat, drink, dust bathe and get some cuddles from me if I'm in the yard while she's taking her break, then...
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    Possible Broody and question

    Hi All, Lady Bird is my queen of the flock girl. We went out of town for a few days and when we came back there was a dozen eggs from our 7 girls in a nesting box along with my Lady Bird screaming at me. We haven't had a broody hen yet in our flock. Lady Bird will be two on May 1st. She didn't...
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    15 Week Old Polish Gender

    Hello, this is Lucille (or Louie?). She/he is supposed to be a pullet, but she/he’s shown some behavior lately that’s either dominate female or maybe she’s a he? I don’t have experience with Polishes. They seem to mature wayyyy slower than my other chickens. Any guesses based on these pictures?
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    Is this broody behavior or something else?

    My chicken has been laying flat off and on in the yard lately. She’s not laying in the nesting box on eggs all day, she lays her normal egg every day to every other day, and leaves the nesting box after, but she’s been laying flat a lot throughout the day in the yard. Is this a broody sign? This...
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    New Additions - Questions about integrating

    Last year we hatched eggs from a friends chickens. Our flock consists of 4 hens and 1 rooster. We LOVE our chickens, and really wanted to add some more girls to our flock. We wanted to hatch their eggs so bad. So we did…we ended up with 1 girl and 4 boys…eek! I found homes for the boys...
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    One month old cockerels looking for their forever homes

    I have three boys born on April 5th. They are all three sweet. I would love to find them homes where they will be pets and not dinner. We have their father who is sweet and tame, and a gentleman with his ladies. I am showing pics of the three boys. Our Rooster (their dad), Stormy so you can see...
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    Lady Bird - Why is she not laying yet?

    This is Lady Bird (she's my sweetest, most friendly, lovable girl). We have 4 pullets. All hatched May 1st. She'll be 23 weeks this week. The other three started laying over the past few weeks. We're in her 23rd week now, why isn't she laying yet? Is she close? She doesn't even seem interested...
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    22 weeks tomorrow - Jaeyna finally laid her egg!

    We have 4 girls. Two have started laying over the past two weeks (Ginger - pretty green/blue eggs & Seven - light blue egg on Tuesday). Jaeyna has been frustrated, and antsy, and loud. Today she finally laid her egg :-). It's a pretty little dark brown egg. I've been thinking she has some BCM in...
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    22 weeks on Friday, Seven laid her first egg today.

    Our second pullet laid her first egg today. We have two laying pullets now :-). Ginger (our first pullet to lay) laid her first egg two weeks ago. Today it was Seven's turn. She spent a lot of time in Ginger's nesting box, but actually laid the egg in the run. I'm sure she'll figure it out...
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    We brought home Stormy, our rooster yesterday :-)

    We hatched eggs that we got from our friends flock in the spring. We ended up with 4 girls and 3 boys. We brought the cockerels over to our friends house to be raised by their larger established flock of girls. Two of them stayed, and we brought Stormy home. He's GIANT! He makes our girls look...
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    Pullet (20 weeks) restless and irritated - pretty sure 1st egg is near. Is this normal behavior?

    One of my 20 week old pullets Jaeyna, has been acting very restless, and irritated the last few days. Today especially, she's yelling and running back and forth in the run. She's snapping at her flock mates. She wants to sit on our laps when we're in the run with her. She hasn't shown interest...
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    20 weeks old, I think we're getting close

    My girls are 20 weeks old on Friday. One of them has been in the nesting box off and on all day today. I've been stalking the boxes for weeks now, and I think it's finally going to happen. She's so cute sitting in there. I'm trying to leave her alone, but I'm so excited, and proud of her...
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    Amateur here! One of our cockerels is going to a friends flock...would love some expert advice :-)

    We're a newbie chicken family. We hatched eggs from friends and currently have 7 almost six week old chicks (3 cockerels and 4 pullets). We're going to be giving one of our roos to our friends established flock of hens. I believe they currently have 15 hens (ages range from 3 months - 2 years...
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    5 week old, anyone interested in taking a guess?

    He/she is very affectionate, and sweet. Seems more interested in humans than the rest of its siblings. No comb or wattle development yet.
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    2 weeks - I know it's early, but any guesses???

    Hello Back Yard Experts :-) I know 2 week is early, but I'm growing so attached to these little fluff balls, and I'm dying to know the genders of my little guys. My son and I hatched them from eggs from our friends flock. They all different mixed breeds. They could be fathered by one of three...
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    Hi! New chicken family here!

    Hello, I’m new to actually joining this site, but I’ve been reading some of the forums for a while now. My son and I just recently hatched 7 out of 12 eggs in our homemade incubator on May 1st. They’re adorable fluffy little mixed breed chicks that we hatched from eggs given to us from our...
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