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    Two Broodies setting/raising chicks on 1 coop? Any risks?

    First time broody grandma here. i had two hens go broody at the same time. I moved them to a separate coop that is 4' by 4' and has a ramp down to a 4' by 8' enclosed run. I'm wondering after they hatch their eggs if there is likely to be any nastiness between the two mamas. Anyone done this...
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    Hey Broody! Hatch mine! Hatch mine!!

    I have a big fluffy blue splash orpington who has gone broody. Then her best friend decided to join her. Some of the other hens in the flock have been pushing the broodys off their nests (both are pretty wimpy) and laying more eggs for the broodys to sit on. I'm going to have a zillion eggs...
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    Combining different aged chicks into one coop

    Chicken Math and Spring Fever have left me with 6 chicks from an April hatch, 9 chicks from a May hatch and 15 chicks from a June hatch. And they're all in different coops/brooders. Adding in the coops with the ones I'm keeping separate to breed and my silkie's coop, all told I am running back...
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    Here's a fun one - guess this chicken from 1923?

    this is my grandfather holding his prized rooster. My father is the little boy to the right of the chicken. My father was born in 1921 so I'm thinking this was taken in 1922 or 1923. I love the look on his face. Apparently my father was not a fan of this chicken. ETA. Looks white in the...
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    Meat birds - best breed to free range

    I want a meat bird flock to free range. I have a good mobile coop, plenty of pasture/woods, plan to use electric fence, would like to use as little feed as possible. None, if possible. I have horses and lots of available compost. In your opinion, what's a good breed to consider for this...
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    Your experience - how effective is electric netting for free ranging during the day?

    I'm working through a plan to have a flock of free range layers. (About 50). I want to rotate the birds from pasture to pasture after some cattle that will also be rotating pastures. I have a mobile coop that's about 10' by 4'. I plan to put up a perimeter of electric fencing (100' x 100'...
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    Had to assist last chick - neck crooked - need advice

    4 of my 7 hatched - 3 without problem but the 4th stalled - she broke a large hole but she couldn't break through. I waited a day and figured she was a goner anyway but she kept chirping and chirping so I helped her out. Everything was fine - no blood, yolk sac absorbed - I think the shell was...
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    AAAACK! Help!

    Mini Brinsea - two are out and just bashing the other eggs around. They're still wet - Should I take them out? One is zipped and has been awhile. One is pipped and rocking. Three are inactive. ACK this is nerve wracking!!!
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    Day 0 - couple of questions

    Early morning day ) - One of my 7 is hatching - he's in there chirping and has a nice line started. I see one other tiny pip in a second egg but nothing yet in the others. 1. I can't see much in the incubator - it's small (little Brinsea). Can I open the top? Can I pick up the eggs and...
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    What would kill chickens but not eat them?

    Something got 5 of my hens that free range around the barn. We found two, both with neck wounds, but they weren't eaten. Can't find the other three so they were either eaten or same fate. It happened during the day today. We live in Georgia. Fox? Seems like a dog or coyote would eat them...
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    Candling dark eggs - only see air cell?

    Newbie incubating question - I have two eggs that the shells are very dark/thick - I couldn't see anything at day 7 and at day 14 I can only see the air cell at the end. It looks to be a normal size in both eggs (similar to the other eggs in the incubator) but everything else is too dark to...
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    Chocolate partridge Wyandottes

    doea anyone have them? I got one as a freebie from Greenfire Farms in my last shipment. About 8 weeks old. SheHe is really sweet. Can anyone tell whether she's a pullet or a cockerel.?
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    HELP! New chick not responding

    Hi I just received a delivery from Meyer's - 8 chicks - they all seem very healthy and happy but one is just standing around, looking up, and acting like he's a little dazed. I've dipped his beak in the water, no interest. Same ting for the geo gel. All the other chicks are running back and...
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    Adventures with possums

    So I shut the girls up nice and safe in the coop last night and this morning, I hear a whole lot of complaining. I walked outside, the girls were out of the coop, the door was standing wide open and this was hanging out in the coop. Amazingly, the girls were all safe, just My son...
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    Any thoughts on these packing peanuts from Greenfire Farms?

    They sent three of these: . And one of these, which I think is the same, just a little darker: I looked on their website and the only chicks I saw that looked like these were Marans which would be cool, but I can't really tell. Any ideas? thanks in advance!!!
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    My dogs ignore my chickens but are trying to get at my ducks

    My dogs peacefully coexist with my chickens who free-range. They hang out with them, take sunbaths with them, share their scraps, run off raccoons, etc. They show no interest in chasing or eating them. I've added 4 Indian Runner babies that are not let out of their (separate) coop yet and you...
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    Is my blue Orpington a splash?

    She doesn't look like what I expected.
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    Meyer Hatchery shipping. Grrrrr

    They've always shipped my chicks overnight from Ohio to Georgia to get here in a day. I ordered baby ducks, they charged me $56 just for shipping and they have put those poor babies in priority mail from California to Georgia. I probably won't get them for the full 3 days if not longer. They...
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    Warning to predators - have you heard of this? A little gruesome...

    I was complaining to a neighbor about the coyotes - we live on a farm and I'd hear them run through almost every night - and he told me that if we shoot one and hang it on a fence on the back of our property that it would "scare off" other coyotes. I don't know if it's coincidence, but we did...
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    True or false? Chickens won't drink warm water

    I read somewhere that chickens won't drink enough water if it gets too warm and that I need to ice it or they could dehydrate. I also read that mint helps. That sounds like a bunch of hooey to me but then again, I'm not a chicken expert. Their water is always in the shade. It's in one of...
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