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I have to dispatch a persistently broody hen. She's skinny now and would go straight to the pot for some stock. I think I heard that when broody, the meat has an off taste. Is this true?

I keep chicken for eggs, but occasionally I harvest the nuisance ones (the over-aggressive hen, the rooster etc). I now have a 2yo Buff Orp that gets broody so often and for so long that I finally decided to invite her for dinner - sitting all the time in a nest box just inconveniences the other...

I have a 2 year old BO that has always been broody. Last year she had 3 long brooding episodes and the 3rd one was so bad that after a full month I gave up and got some fertile eggs to put under her; she took great care of them and of the resulting chicks - great mom, if you're into egg...

Hi, These are the result of my first attempt at hatching. They both have been hatched on July 3rd, which makes them 5 week old. The eggs came from a local feed supply and they couldn't tell what the parentage has been. Any idea about what they are and, more importantly, what their gender...

My 8 mo BL Wyandotte discovered that she can fly, so I cornered her today and snipped off the end feathers on one of her wings. I did not hold her long and she definitely did not understand what happened to her. To comfort her (and the other hens who saw the incident), I kneeled and offered...

Hi all, I have a Buff Orpington who is desperate to become a mom; I finally caved in and got some fertile eggs for her and she's been carefully sitting on them since this past Saturday. Just like before (when I was fighting her broodiness), she is not moving almost at all from the eggs. My...

My BL Wyandotte is finally turning on her egg machine (she's 6mo old). She laid her first 3 "eggs" today: a clump of leathery shell with some yellow and translucent goop (in the morning), then another clump early afternoon, then a fully formed egg probably by 6PM. Is this last egg edible? its...

One of my Buff Orp's started doing a strange move: whenever I'm getting close to her while she's foraging, she crouches down, her shoulders stick out and she freezes in that position. Why would she do this? She recently went through an episode of broodiness, but she's back laying her everyday...

Just to satisfy my curiosity, here they are: 1) in the country where I'm originally from, there is this spoken rule about NEVER eating same-day eggs. Furthermore, nobody could give an explanation why. Is there any grain of truth in this? I tend of believing that this custom is BS, but who...

I guess that this question has been asked a million times already, but here it is. One of my Buff Orps has been warming two golf balls for 5 weeks now. Poor thing is a shadow of what she was, she feels very light and her feathers somehow don't sit right on her. I recently started taking her...

Hello, I started keeping chicken last month, when I got two 15mo old Buff Orpington hens from a full-pasture egg farm. They got used to the new environment pretty easily and started laying eggs right away (each hen lays an egg every day with every 3rd or 4th day off). Today I bought two 3mo...

Hello, I just got my first two chicken (Buff Orpingtons), hatched in November 2011, i.e. mature hens. The place I bought them from is a full-pasture egg farm, so they're used to a lot of freedom. Now they stay in my smallish coop (32sq.ft). The question I have is: how long will it take for...