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    Urgent advice needed about hen with chicks

    I have a hen that has been brooding inside the coop, and her eggs have started to hatch today. I had tried to move her to a separate confined area with her eggs last week (and also previous to that), but she absolutely refused to sit on the eggs and struggled so much that she got out of the...
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    Messy nest with broody hen and eggs

    I have a broody girl with eggs under her, and other hens get in there and lay their eggs too, for her to brood. I've marked the initial ones to keep in there and am removing the additional. But, I'm having a problem in that one of my older girls is laying soft shelled or thin shelled eggs, and...
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    How to Break a Broody Hen

    Update on my little Ameraucana - She didn't have any of her own eggs under her, so I did put a couple of (hopefully) fertilized eggs there, however after she got off the nest to have something to eat and got back up to brood, she didn't go to the same nesting box. So, I've determined that...
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    How to Break a Broody Hen

    This is a really old post, so I've quoted it above. I have a hen that is obviously broody, and has not laid any eggs to brood. My question is - is it okay to slip some fertilized eggs under her and hope that she'll raise them? I think she's been broody for about 9 days now, and hasn't laid a...
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    chicken poop and dogs.

    That's a very good question! I have 2 chickens only right now which I let roam every afternoon and my 2 dogs eagerly search for their poop to eat. I try to stop them but they seem to regard it as a special treat. Anyone know the consequences?
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    Canadians check in here....

    Black Creek, on Vancouver Island :D
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    Should I feel guilty for having chickens when my neighbors dogs kills my chicken?

    centrachid: I didn't wrongfully accuse my dog. She knows what she did and so do I. If you meant that it was my fault for letting her have the opportunity to chase my chickens, then yup, it's true.
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    Should I feel guilty for having chickens when my neighbors dogs kills my chicken?

    I've just learned a lesson around this issue myself. My dog, whom I 'thought' was neutral to my 6 young birds decided that it would be fun one morning to chase them. She completely dispersed my little flock. I was able to find one bird down at one end of our property near the road fence-line...
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    Comment by 'Kimbolini' in article 'Cleaning and storing fresh eggs'

    Great information thanks. I noted the last time I visited the UK that in the grocery stores there (at least the smaller grocery stores) they do not store eggs in the refrigerator, but just have them on shelves in their egg cartons. Perhaps their eggs are delivered fresher to market than they...
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    Bantams in Boone

    Hi anti! Nice to see a friend from the metaverse here.
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    Canadians check in here....

    Just put my little girls out into their coop yesterday afternoon, and opened the door to their run this morning. They are only 3 weeks old so very cautious and haven't learned to fly yet. They stand in the door and look out and I stand watching and encouraging them!
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    Canadians check in here....

    Hi there... I'm on Vancouver Island in Black Creek, and also just joined BYC. I have 3 Rhode Island Reds and 3 Barred Rock chicks that are a week old, in a brooder in my basement! My husband is just finishing off the coop he is building for the girls and I can't wait to get them into their...
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    Lovely little flock of 6 babies arrived

    Thanks I appreciate the welcome! I've been reading advice from this site for some months now, in preparation for getting my girls. Lots of excellent advice about coops, and now I'm learning about how to take care of them properly from the advice here. Cheers
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    Lovely little flock of 6 babies arrived

    Hello, I've wanted chickens for YEARS, and have finally got my little ones in a brooder in the basement right now, and my husband is finishing up building the coop for them. We live on Vancouver Island, Canada. We have 3 Rhode Island Reds, and 3 Barred Rocks. They are just starting to show...
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