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  1. Shanda

    Taking baby chicks from a broody hen.

    Rosie has started to hatch her eggs. We want to raise them in the garage for a while so they will get more people attention. Do I wait until the last one is hatched to start moving the baby chicks or just take them after about 24 hours?
  2. Shanda

    Rosie hatched her first babies today!

    I picked up an egg this morning and heard it chirping , but I had to go to work . So right when I got home, I rushed in the chicken coop to find two had hatched...it seems they had just hatched. I tried to pick Rosie up like I do every day to give her break, but she just ran back in. While...
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    Sneaking store bought chicks with hatched or about to hatch chicks...

    My bantum cochin, Rosie, is sitting on nine eggs set to hatch some time between May 10 - 12th. I have some chicks coming from the local feed store May 6th and May 12th. I have heard of people just adding them to a broody hen's hatch, but what is the best way to do this? Should I wait to add...
  4. Shanda

    Best way to catch the birds you want to process?

    I processed 3 roosters for the first time this past Saturday. The processing went very well...thinking back on the experience, the catching of the roosters was not so smooth . The roosters I wanted to process were not tame like my hens. My husband had a snake hook and I was chasing them...
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    Just processed our first 3 birds!

    We just processed 3 roosters this Saturday. We are totally new at it...have never seen it done in person, just on you tube. I thought it went very well. My husband and I set it up in our back yard. On the first bird, we had to go back and forth between the you tube video and the bird because...
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    Molting, pecking?

    I have several chickens that seem to have never recovered from what looked like molting. I have a rooster, but this has been going on for about 8 months and the rooster hatched the end of November - so I don't think he is the issue. This picture is of a couple of the hens that looked the same...
  7. Shanda

    Mice in coop, help.

    I just went into the coop to tuck my chickens in and I found a cute little mouse. I brought it in and my husband told me to kill it! I went back out to the coop and found 5 cute little mice running out of one of the laying boxes. I'm concerned about disease. How do I get rid of the mice...
  8. Shanda

    Special diet prior to culling?

    I have some extra roosters that I plan to use as meat birds. I have never done this before so I have been reading a lot of posts on how to do it, however, I have not come across anything that mentions diet prior to killing. I know that cattle farmers feed the cows something special prior to...
  9. Shanda

    When do roosters finish developing?

    I hatched 5 black australorps Thanksgiving weekend, so they are approximately 4 months old now. I know I have a couple of roosters in the mix, but not sure how many. I want to keep the prettiest one and give the rest of the roosters away. I'm wondering when they will finish developing and...
  10. Shanda

    Integrating Mama back with the flock

    I had a bantum cochin hatch 5 chicks on Thanksgiving weekend. I have her separated from the flock in a corner of the coop with her chicks. Today I went in there to give her and the chicks food and water and to try to hold the babies. I had the top open for a while and Rosy (Mama) jumped out -...
  11. Shanda

    Sick or not?

    I had a sick chicken...Saturday, Lily was limping, had yucky slimy poop, and layed soft shell eggs. I feared Marek's disease. I separated her from the flock and treated her with Hypericum as suggested by someone on this site (still treating her with that). She had a few more yucky poops and...
  12. Shanda

    Bantam Cochin is about to hatch eggs, questions???

    I have a bantam cochin, "Rosie", that is about to hatch some eggs (21 days is Sunday the 28th). Our temperatures here are getting to be in the single digits at night and freezing during the day. She is in a nesting box that is about 3.5 - 4 feet off the ground. I sectioned off an area in the...
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