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    Hatching while I'm on vacation

    I ended up getting nervous and putting mama and the eggs into a dog kennel. Seems to have worked well. She has enough room to move about freely but they are a little safer in there. All 4 hatched but one chick died the day after we got home. The other 3 are thriving!
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    Lethargic chick

    Sorry I couldn't get anything to type correctly last night. Sadly she passed during the night. Thank you for responding. I'm not great with technology
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    Lethargic chick

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    Lethargic chick

    So my chicks hatched while I was away. There's one that is very lethargic. Tonight when I went to close the coop she was laying flat out away from her mama. She responded a little when I scooped her up so I shoved her under the mama hen but I'm so worried. Should I pull her out and keep her...
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    Hatching while I'm on vacation

    Will do!
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    Hatching while I'm on vacation

    Thank you!
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    Hatching while I'm on vacation

    She's head hen
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    Hatching while I'm on vacation

    Bad timing... eggs are set to hatch around July 5, the day I leave for a 5 day vacation. I have a broody sitting on them in the coop with 3 other hens. Should I leave everything as is and hope for the best? Should I transfer mama and the eggs into an xl dog kennel left inside the coop? I'm...
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    Roosting area too high

    Awesome! Thank you
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    Roosting area too high

    They like to sit right across the middle of the coop so it's too tight for them to drop into The coop itself. They fly straight out the door. But sometimes they Land on the door frame. Maybe I could shorten the door a little and put something squishy on the frame base... Do you think that...
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    Roosting area too high

    Good morning. I have an 8x10 coup with an 8' high ceiling. I put up nesting boxes and a roosting area BUT the chickens prefer to roost in the rafters. Fine with me, but when they try to get down, they land hard and often one will limp from the impact. I put up a ladder that they can hop to...
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    2 week old chick gaping, lethargic

    My son's favorite chick started gaping today. No sound, just almost looks like she's dry heaving. I rubbed her throat a little in case there was something stuck. Her tush is clean. She's been like this all day the poor thing. Im giving her an antibiotic bc I don't know what else to do and my...
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    I need A LOT of help!!

    Great, thank you. So with the crossing I could just say I have a nice assortment and not feel so dumb :)
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    I need A LOT of help!!

    Hi, all! I'm fairly new to chickens, but I LOVE them. I can't get enough of them so I'm constantly in their coop puttering around LOL. I sort of inherited the chickens, so I don't know anything about them. I want to be a "cool" crazy chicken lady, but I was in a conversation with another...
  15. chickengumbo

    Long time reader, new member

    Hi, Everyone! Proud new "Mama" here. My broody (that's a hen who sits on eggs, yes?) hatched 7 beautiful babies!!! AND 5/7 hatched in the incubator. That's an awesome DOZEN new chicks! :) Added the 5 incu-babies in with the mama-hatched today and they are doing great! (although as I fussed...
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    new "mama" starting to freak out

    Pretty new to everything chicken. A friend loaned us an incubator, while at the same time I let a broody sit on some. Hers all hatched and are doing great! Two of the incubated eggs hatched yesterday. At the same time, a third pipped at the pointed end and stuck its beak out. It's had it's beak...
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    Long time reader, new member

    I want to have an intelligent answer for you, but I don't . I tried to look them up, but rather than take a stab in the dark and sound like a complete idiot, I'll sound like a basic idiot and say... I have four orange ones, 5 white-ish ones, one that's colored like a pigeon, and 2 black ones...
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    Long time reader, new member

    Hi, everyone! I frequent these forums often, but finally joined with my first "issue". I LOVE chickens. I swear I could pull a chair into my coop and watch them all day long! We started with 3 hens and a pretty rooster in a small coop next to our house. Then we adopted my sister-in-laws large...
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    chickens are playing follow the leader with egg production! :(

    Our hens are almost a year old. They've been laying faithfully since December. Big, beautiful eggs. For a while they were free to roam, but that invited a fox family, so into a covered run they went. All was still fine. About a month ago I thought they could use some more space, so I opened the...
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