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    New to this, what is normal mama hen behavior?

    I have a 1 year old Buff Orpington hen who has been broody pretty constantly since Sept. I just put 6 hatching eggs under her and she sat faithfully and hatched 2 chicks. They are 8 days old now. Mom and babies are in my office in my house, because my coop and run isn't safe for them (I am...
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    Winter Chicken Care - Killed My Girl With Kindness

    I want to share this because I'm a new chicken keeper, and in all the stuff I've read and all the videos I've watched, no one has mentioned this issue. I have 6 Buff Orps in their first winter. I'm in upstate NY and the weather has been brutally cold for 2 mos. I have seen a lot of posts here...
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    My favorite hen is wasting away

    My beloved lone survivor from a dead batch of mailed chicks last spring, Admiral Byrd, went broody in Sept-Oct. I'm a noob so I didn't break her right away and she went on for about a month. Already small, she lost half her body weight and made her chest bald. She's been fine after, but the...
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    What do hens really want from nesting boxes?

    My 6 young Buff Orpington hens are laying (a lot), and I had a 4-slot wood nesting box from a kit that is 11" x 11" x 12" inside the boxes. The hens barely fit, look really crammed in there and they can't stand up. I watched one lay an egg and it seemed like some repositioning and fidgeting...
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    Will my flock miss their rooster?

    I have a small starter flock of 7 Buff Orpingtons, they are 4 months plus a couple of weeks old, I raised them from 2-day old chicks. For the most part they are very gentle and collegial with one another, and me. One (who has never been friendly even as a tiny chick) turns out to be a large...
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    Do chickens sundown?

    I'm brand new to chickens and their behavior, so maybe this is normal? Background: I have built chicken supermax in my yard, anticipating heavy predator pressure (I'm at the edge of wild lands). I have an 8' wildlife fence around my yard. I built an 8x12 cedar shed kit that is a very solid...
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    Does cecal poop have some kind of territorial significance?

    I have 7 5-week-old buff orpingtons currently residing in my home office/now chick brooder. They are huge, feathered, and bored and need to go live outside, but my coop and run aren't as locked down as they need to be, and I have to wait for help to do a couple of final security things. I am...
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    Is this a Buff Orpington?

    Hi, first time chicken owner here. I got 9 chicks from McMurray Hatchery on April 13, all died from the lengthy transit horror show but one. I added 6 more Buffs from Agway the following week. The Agway chicks all look very much the same, but the McMurray chick looks super different. What kind...
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    Do these chicks look OK?

    First time chicken owner here. As I posted a couple of weeks ago, I got a bunch of dead Buff Orpington chicks in the mail from McMurray Hatchery, and managed to save just one. I added 6 more buffs from the Agway that were a week younger. Even so, they were the same size as Admiral Byrd, the...
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    Last living chick doing great, new chicks coming today. Quarantine?

    Hello! So I posted here last week about 8 of 9 dead chicks from McMurray Hatchery, I've managed to save the last chick and she is now 1 week and 1 day old. She is thriving and very much a pet now, as I have spent a huge amount of time with her and she likes to sleep on my shoulder in my hair and...
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    Starting chickens, with a disaster

    Hi, I'm Molly, totally new to chicken husbandry. Here's my tldr; intro to this forum: I have some acreage in New York and am making a closed loop growing system on my land. Chickens seem like the best way to get hot compostable manure on site, so I ordered 8 buff orps from McMurray back in Nov...
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