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  1. nayalusa

    All of my hens have stopped laying!

    Interesting! I had no idea that people took their hens off of layer feed during times of molt or seasonal slow down? What feed blend or protein ratio do you recommend? Do you separate your molting girls from your non molters the entire time so that they get separate feed? I imagine a handful of...
  2. nayalusa

    Ended Official BYC Caption Contest Photo Submission Thread #1

  3. nayalusa

    2016 BYC Calendar - Your Pictures Needed!

    Here is my hen with her newly hatched chick! And here is my black australorp roo!
  4. nayalusa

    when to move mama and chick back with flock?

    Thank you:) I may wait a while then. Mama still lets baby eat with her and tuck under whenever so definitely sticking together-but also appears to want out of the cage when I open the door to refill or clean. She's probably ready to get moving a little more. Tough decision. I probably won't risk...
  5. nayalusa

    when to move mama and chick back with flock?

    We have an 8 day old chick that hatched under our broody hen(Only 1 egg of 5 developed). Mama and baby are now in a 4x4 cage that is all set up for them. We have 10 other hens all around the same age (1.5-2years) so this is a first for all of us. The entire flock has free range of about 1/2...
  6. nayalusa

    1st time broody hatched a chick!

    That would be fast! I would be worried about a 2 week old chick alone in the flock. Hopefully protecting the chick from other hens will keep her too busy to go broody again too soon.
  7. nayalusa

    1st time broody hatched a chick!

    So excited to report that our 2 year old Black Australorp girl had her first broody cycle ever and successfully hatched a chick! She sat faithfully for all 21 days even as the 5 eggs we gave her dwindled down to 1 tough little egg through no fault of her own. :) We had to leave the day the chick...
  8. nayalusa

    Hen abandoned clutch after moving them

    Update: We never found the missing egg but one egg out of the original 5 (2 broke, 1 quitter, 1 missing) hatched on exactly the 21st day! Here is our first time broody with new baby.
  9. nayalusa

    Egg disappeared from under broody hen

    Yes GitaBooks. I had the same thought about her maybe tucking it up in her wing but i came back to check on her this morning and still couldn't find the second egg or any trace of it? I have heard of a broody hen eating her own egg for nutrition before and leaving no trace of it. Do you think...
  10. nayalusa

    Is this a quitter?

    Ok. Thanks. :( I'll go pull it out from under her today then. I wanted to wait until I heard back from someone.
  11. nayalusa

    Is this a quitter?

    We just candled our 3 fertile eggs. 2 look clearly different than this one. They are all 10 days old. Is this one not developing?
  12. nayalusa

    broody and rotting eggs

    Hello! We have a broody sitting on 3 fertile eggs. So far so good hopefully minus one mishap. We'll check them at 12 days (2 days from now). We had to leave for the weekend and returned to gather eggs and found 2 "new" unfertilized eggs under her so we added them to our gather. I noticed that...
  13. nayalusa

    Hen abandoned clutch after moving them

    Thank you for the quick reply! So we moved the abandoned eggs back to her original nest box inside the communal coop and she's back on them. She's plucked her underside feathers bare and seems committed so I hope the eggs are still alive. If I candle them again in a week (about 14 days at...
  14. nayalusa

    Hen abandoned clutch after moving them

    We have a 2 year old BA who went broody. We let her prove it for a week then called a friend for some fertilized eggs (5 of them). At the time she was located inside the coop in 1 of the 3 nest boxes we have available for our 10 hens. We stuck the eggs underneath her and voila. She has (had)...
  15. nayalusa

    Ravens stealing eggs

    Update: Thank you for the suggestions. We ended up doing a little of everything. We blocked the line of sight to the egg box hatch with a hanging towel, put a cinderblock weight on top of the outside hatch. We also put out fake plastic eggs out in the yard and let them steal a fake egg so that...
  16. nayalusa

    Ravens stealing eggs

    Thanks, in addition to sitting out this morning with Airsoft guns and peppering fake eggs:)) we also hung a towel from the eave and draped it over the egg box where they've been breaking in. I think your theory of obstructing line of sight might be right because I happened to have the entrance...
  17. nayalusa

    Ravens stealing eggs

    Yes they have a fenced space but it's large(50x100)and uncovered.
  18. nayalusa

    Ravens stealing eggs

    We just found out that at least 2 ravens are stealing our eggs on a daily basis. I looked online for tried and true remedies but didn't find anything definitive other than one post that said a lady used a rat trap with a fake egg taped to it. I don't want to accidentally catch either of these...
  19. nayalusa

    Rooster sitting on eggs and flock stopped roosting at night....

    Red Mite advice: Thank you for the helpful advice regarding the girls suddenly not roosting at night! I believe red mites were definitely the problem although we treated them and everything in the coop with a combo mite/lice powder suggested by our local feed company. Here's what we did...
  20. nayalusa

    4 hens sitting on one clutch..who will be the mama?

    We had been considering letting one of our broody hens hatch some chicks. To our surprise as we began to let her lay eggs in her secret spot up under the eave of the coop and didn't collect them, 3 more hens followed suit and began laying and taking turns sitting there! When one would get up to...
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