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I have a broody hen she became broody during the hatch . so.. I would love to let her raise them but what are the chances that she'd take to them? I had a hen last year that wanted to be a nanny to all of the other hens chicks. She'd follow them around and help feed them. clucking the...

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This sweet guy is only a little over 5 months old . Hatched on June 11th 2012. He is located in Garber OK. (near Enid) I will be going to Shawnee, OK for the chicken show on Dec 8th and can bring him with me. He really needs to find a new home. Hasnt started crowing yet but he likes the...

A friend gave me 4 blue eggs from her americana hens that were with a beautiful large blueish rooster. My Black Cooper Maran hen set on those 4 plus 5 other of her eggs . This was the only one to hatch. It hatched on June 11th so it is 3 months. Ive never had this breed before so can someone...

I am so baffled. My hens are dieing. I've had a bad month so far. We let our flock free range. First our two roosters get taken by a predator. We're thinking a bobcat since it was in an area of trees. (I'm surprised it was the roosters and not a hen). A couple days later one of our...

I have about 6 , maybe more, boy chicks that were hatched out on March 1st. I already have two roosters so I'm just keeping the pullets. Very healthy and pretty feathering on their legs. Any takers? No shipping. I'm in Northern Oklahoma

I may have a problem. I have a brooder box that has a thin layer of styrofoam on the bottom under the part wear the waterer is. I have it lined with layers of newspaper. I was gone for an hr and a half. In that time they tore back the paper and ate about a 1/2 dollar size of the foam. Not...

I set 24 eggs. they are really packed in the incubator. should I remove the shells as the chicks hatch? the pro I see is it'll give the hatching chicks more wiggle space. The con is that the babies may get wedged btwn the eggs? what should I do? I have 3 brand new chicks with 12 pipped

My sons sweet little hen was a victim of a stray dog a month ago and his Rooster is very lonely. Does anyone have some Araucana pullets or hens they would like to sell him. He's not looking for show quality. My sons are in 4-H and the Araucanas were supposed to be my youngest sons project...

Came home from church tonight and couldn't find my only Araucana hen. The rooster was in the coop along with all the rest of my Marans. We searched all over and then found her remains. Our dog had killed her. I am so sad. Our dog has never shown any signs of aggression towards the chickens...

Are they poisonus to chickens? The seeds are everywhere.

My French Copper Maran laid her first egg! It's very small but very dark brown. So eggcited!

Hi, I'm new to hatching eggs. The hatch date was Wednesday the 29th. I had 9 hatch out of 16 hatch. There were two sets of 8 from different breeders. One group all 8 hatched, Only two so far out of the other group and it was a struggle. One died. Anyway Thursday afternoon one egg started...