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  1. VenturaChickenMama

    When will momma hen take chicks off nest?

    I am by no means an expert, but we just got six babies yesterday, and they are all off the nest and wandering around (in about a 3-foot radius of the nest), and that is with two eggs still waiting to hatch! I don't know if our Mama ("Mama Horsey") knows that these last two are not going to...
  2. VenturaChickenMama

    CA Anyone???

    [meant2bemommie]I am in Simi Valley, Ventura County. Hi, Meanut2bemommie! I am in Ventura! We have one Millie Fleur roo Flicka, and three Old English-Sebright cross hens, Mama Horsey, Spirit, and Girlfriend. We got two babies out of Girlfriend in November '08, but we lost both of them (one...
  3. VenturaChickenMama

    Mama picking at 3-day old chick's wings until bloody

    Thanks for the info. I will add some more, to see if it makes an impact. She does all the "good mama" things you are talking about (gentle Mama noises, responding to them, protecting them (she tried to attack (i.e., fly in the face and squawk at) our 50 pound dog - who is totally submissive...
  4. VenturaChickenMama

    Mama picking at 3-day old chick's wings until bloody

    Our Sebright/Old English cross bantam hen has been broody for about a month (based on my thought that her egg was not yet fertile, so I added another hen's egg about 10 days later), and her chicks (crossed with Millie Fleur bantam) hatched two and three days ago. She had been an awesome mama...
  5. VenturaChickenMama

    Lice and chicks?

    I am new to the board, but I wanted to add my one experience with poultry lice. When we brought home our two Millie Fleur cockerels (at 20 days of age), we discovered that they had lice. We did a little research, and I ended up washing them with Dawn dishsoap, soaping them up and getting all...
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