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On Wednesday my broody hen successfully hatched 5 chicks, unfortunately one of my other hens started stealing chicks, and we lost 2 before we realised what was happening. Mummy hen and the 3 remaining babies were removed to a large plastic storage box in our downstairs bathroom. Today mummy hen...

My broody hen has been sitting on 7 eggs for 2 1/2 weeks (due to hatch Thursday/Friday). We’ve been out all day and when I went to put the hens to bed this evening, and get the other 2 hens eggs, 2 of her eggs were missing from the nest. I found one of them at the bottom of the ramp out of the...

My 4 girls have been with us since late February, and were bought at point of lay, so are probably now about 7 months old, they are all hybrids. We had a little bit of trouble with them sorting out a pecking order and one of them (Popcorn) was left badly pecked and missing a lot of feathers, but...