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Thank you all for responding to me! Yes lesson learned- I never imagined that another broody hen would attack other baby chicks. But in a strange way I guess now it makes sense for resources. I did originally have them separated from the rest of the flock but brought them out to be able to play...

I have two momma hens... Three weeks ago my first Brody hen hatched her 6 babies. Just a week ago the another Hen hatched her two babies. Our flock and our rooster has accepted both moms and babies... However just two nights ago we found one of the second moms babies dead by a huge hole in her...

THANK YOU all of you! Such great suggestions. I will leave her where she is since she seems to really like that spot (tried moving her and she didn't like that) and I will mark her eggs for sure! I haven't noticed any other hens wanting to lay next to her but marking them is smart and checking...

Hi!! Thanks in advance for any answers. My sweet Araucana is broody- didn't realize it till a couple days ago because we kept taking the eggs under her the past week - just thought she was laying. We do have a rooster that we raised this year and he gets it on with his 22 girls daily, and...

Thank you to you both! I need a fence for sure and plan on making a bigger run for sure. Those pictures are very helpful and he did a beautiful job on your chicken coop and run. Thank you!! :)

Ok... So our new neighborhood is very open with no fences and dogs that roam everyone's yards. Well two dogs (I've never seen till today), a St. Bernard looking one and a three legged lab/Rottweiler looking one attacked our chickens today- ...huge quarter size gash in one that ended up needing...

Have you considered any dogs that could protect your ducks from the foxes? And I would have to think that even if you decide to build yourself another smaller cleanable pond your ducks would be just as adventurous and make their way to the other pond and may want to stay? Maybe you could set up...

Thank you- you answered both my posts :D wasn't sure if anyone was gonna look at the older post.

I posted this pic yesterday asking if this was a rooster- but had forgotten to ask if anyone might know what breed this one is?

Can anyone tell me what breed this rooster could be?

Ha! That's what I thought- this is my friends who got it from a coworker who's kid brought it home from the school "nursery"- she ended up getting 5 more baby chicks but they were at least 2 months younger than this one- so I wasn't sure if she/he grew their comb much bigger and faster because...

I have a feeling this one is a rooster- what do you think? Don't know the breed and she/he is about 3 1/2 months old.

That's really hard- especially if you don't know the upbringing of other adult hens- raising them as chicks gives you the best chance to have the sweetest hens. We raised all ours and they all follow us around, come when we call, sit on our laps, and are extremely submissive to us and my kids...

I had a heat lamp the first three months for my chickens- which they needed when they were that young- they do not need a night light for sure- but heat lamp during the cold winters even as adults unless coop is pretty secure. Commercial chickens for egg laying, they actually keep the light on...

Interesting that she didn't want to sit on her egg the first couple days. I would hope and suspect that as she continues to sit on the egg from here on out the chick should be fine- Good luck on that and I hope you will have a baby chick!!

Yes I agree with annelions- I had to "train" my chickens to go back to their run/coop in the evening by using mealworms as their evening snack. I trained them that once they heard me shacking the container of snacks and calling out to them they immediately ran inside- so so cute :) But every...

Usually chickens lay every 25/26 hours- which will put their egg laying a little later each day. It will be like Easter on your lawn :)

Yikes... Yah I probably wouldn't keep him. Poor girl. She may stop laying from the stress or have distorted or shell less eggs from all of this "abuse".

We also might move somewhere it snows... Here in Bakersfield it gets super hot so they needed a window. So if we moved where it snowed this is what I was gonna do: I was planning on getting a sheet of plexiglass bigger than the window and from inside using scraps of wood nailed in in a fashion...

Here's what we did.. Ours was 4x6.. And also about 4 feet high... On the shorter ends we had the nesting boxes (3 of them) and the chicken door. Long sides was our window and a door to clean out coop which was about 4 feet wide and 4 feet high. Our Run is larger now than the picture and big...