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Thanks. I did end up doing that.

I've got a hen who went broody. She has 6 or 7 eggs under her from herself and my various other hens. Three of the chicks hatched yesterday. They're so cute! She has been all this time in the coop that is shared with the other 5 hens and 2 geese (my rooster died last week). It is attached...

I have one hen that is nearly a year old and has always been free to roam all over the yard because I didn't have my coop and yard done. She was originally in another group of chickens, but the rest of them became freezer fodder earlier this spring. Now I have my coop finished and we have...

A spin-off question: I also have 1 older rooster and 1 older Golden Sex Link hen (not quite a year, but old enough to lay) that are free ranging right now. In the next couple of weeks, we will be completing our coop/chicken yard that they will eventually all live in together. I don't plan to...

Thank you for your reply. I haven't had any issues with the 3-week-old chicks picking on the 1-week-old chicks. I'm more wondering about mixing those with the 7-week-olds.

I recently got 30 new chicks - 4 of them are 7 weeks old, and the others range from 1-3 weeks old. Right now they are all staying together in an 8x8 outbuilding. I have the 7-weekers in a cage next to where the little ones hang out with the brooding lamp, as I didn't want to risk the older...

Hi everyone. I'm Lori from Utah and this is our second year of raising chickens. Last year I didn't participate much as I was expecting our 6th baby and ended up on bed rest for the first part of the summer. Our birds from last year have been since butchered and enjoyed, and this year I am...