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She has been eating and drinking but not as much yesterday and today. There are 7 total chicks in her group. I'm not sure how to keep her from being shunned when she returns.

I have a Russian Orloff pullet age 5 weeks that was pecked by her mama hen when she stopped brooding. The injury looks really bad, but she seems to be in good spirits. The best I could do was separate her and clean the wound with pierced ear solution (benzalkonium chloride). I wish I could...

I have a Russian Orloff pullet age 5 weeks that was pecked by her mama hen when she stopped brooding. The injury looks really bad, but she seems to be in good spirits. The best I could do was separate her and clean the wound with pierced ear solution (benzalkonium chloride). I wish I could...

The two black ones were ones she hatched. The three light ones are legbars.

I did it! I found a little one acre farm near me with just hatched chicks. I bought 3 and brought them home to my broody. I swapped one egg she was sitting on for a chick. When she seemed ok with that one and it started listening to her call it, I introduced the next one. All the rest of the...

So if I don't get more than 2 chicks from this batch, is there a time window where she will accept other chicks? I could order some....

That's what 4 of them look like. Just no signs of life. No rocking, no peeping.

I just checked. One had broken and there was no signs of development. Of the 5 that I candled, 1 had no development. So the other 4 are dark and I can't see anything but a little light on one end. Not sure what I should see.

My Golden Laced Wyandotte went broody last year in May and hatched 3 chicks. This year, I was disappointed when May came and went with no broody hen. However, she DID go broody in August!! I just happened to have a carton of fertile eggs from the local farm that I put under her. She started...

I calibrated mine with both digital weather thermometers and kitchen thermometers. The one I found most accurate was a classic red liquid thermometer. It was intended to be used for keeping brooders at a safe temperature. It had a line for 99.7 degrees so I could tell when it was just right...

I have my first broody hen! She is sharing a coop with one other hen. She has been very dedicated to staying on the nest. Tomorrow will be day 7. I'm so excited! I'm tempted to candle one at least to be sure they are developing. Do Golden Laced Wyandottes make good mothers? I am...

Ok, here's the situation: I have 2 coops. For a while, I had 2 roosters and 7 hens in one coop and 1 rooster and 9 hens in the other. The other day, a predator attacked while the chickens were free ranging on our 2 acres. We lost 1 rooster and 2 hens. The lost rooster was from the 2nd coop...

They weren't bred for meat so they are on the light side. I incubated 9 eggs from my americauna hen when she was killed by a hawk. She was my only green egg layer. The babies are crossed with a barred rock. I know that sometimes a cross will result in a jumbo bird that grows fast. Not these. We...

Another question: our chickens were 15 weeks old and only 2.75 pounds after cleaning. I kept waiting for them to get bigger. Does age make them tough? T

Yesterday I processed 5 chickens. 3 of them were still stiff when I put them in bags in the freezer. The other 2 had to wait in the cooler for 6 or 7 hours till I got around to plucking them. They were not stiff like the others. Does this make them more tender? I brined all of them for an hour...

I have one hen that habitually roosts in the cedar tree. Since the others roost in the coop, I have stopped trying to get her down, and just leave her there. However, it was bad for her today, because she was alone in the yard when a hawk came by for lunch. She might have been safer if...

@ andy1234: What is the humidity of the room the incubator is in? I used my incubator in a 40-50% humid room with no water in any of the channels. As the chicks pip, the humidity naturally rises as each one hatches and dries off--leaving lots of moisture inside. I didn't need to add water at...

Thanks for all the help! I wasn't able to save her, but I learned a lot from it all.:/ For starters, because she was not mine, I didn't know what she had been eating. I cut open her crop after she died and found that she had long grass fibers tangled up into a hair ball of sorts. I also found...

So I made her throw up tonight, and it was thick layer feed that came out first. She started choking so I had to massage her throat till she could breathe again. I also gave her a bit of olive oil and some Braggs cider vinegar and some yogurt. I can feel some chunks in her crop that might be...

Yes, grass, bushes, bugs, etc.