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    what to do with a failed brood

    I have a broody hen (black copper Marans), but her clutch seems to have failed. She started with 12 eggs (from our flock). Over the first week, she seems to have eaten 8 of the eggs. At first we were afraid she had become cannibalistic and would have to go, but then she stopped eating them. Then...
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    disappearing egg under broody hen

    Would a broody hen ever eat one of the eggs she's sitting on? Earlier this spring we had a black copper Marans (less than a year old) go broody. We put 11 eggs under her, and 7 successfully hatched. 1 was broken by another hen a couple days before hatching, one pipped but failed to get all the...
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    please help - should we give water to new chicks without food?

    This is our first time hatching eggs. We bought some random eggs and put them under a broody hen. 21 days was supposed to be Sunday, and I was going to buy chick feed tomorrow. But the eggs have started hatching. If I don't have feed until tomorrow morning, should I give the chicks water for the...
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    is this normal behavior for a broody hen?

    We have a pullet (hatched last September; black copper Marans from a hatchery) who went broody last week. After nearly two days of her sitting on a nest in one coop we moved her to a nest in the identical location in our second coop and put fertile eggs under her. The two coops are identical...
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    what age to expect hens to go broody

    We have 12 hens who are 20 weeks old, so we are eagerly waiting to see the first eggs. Also one rooster. My question is, since we first got into keeping chickens last fall, we are having so much fun with them, we are thinking about expanding to raise birds for meat. Apart from the question of...
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    how long can chickens be separated without forgetting each other

    I have 13 9 week old pullets. So far they were brooded and raised in one coop. They are getting big enough that some of them need to be moved to our second coop. Our original plan was to position both (theoretically mobile, in practice extremely difficult to move) coops close to each other and...
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    what am I missing about hawks?

    We have 5 week old chicks which we have been letting out during the day from the coop where they live into a run located between our house and our garage, with a large overhanging maple tree, and several other large trees nearby. At first I thought the closeness to the house and the trees (ie no...
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    Help ID mystery chicks

    Hi! I hope you can help me figure out the breeds of these chicks. After 2 years of debating, our municipality suddenly approved chickens 3 weeks ago, so I immediately ordered chicks: McMurray's choice layers, which were supposed to be 15 females which will lay different colored eggs; plus a...
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