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Our girl has hatched her first baby this morning (what a cutie!) with two more eggs still to hatch. Mum is sat on the eggs and shielding her baby at the same time aaw! Mum not eaten or drunk since yesterday - should I take her out to feed? And will baby be warm enough without her for a few...

On one hand, we don't have problems with snakes, coyotes, raccoons and the like but living in our rural green-belt village in the north yorkshire dales we are plagued by CROWS! They drive me insane! They eat the chicken's food in the run (whilst the ladies look idly on aarghh!) and have now...

Our two year old "Magpies" are broody and have been for going on 3 weeks. Like most other posts here, they will sit all day on nothing and will not come out unless we remove them from the nest. A few days ago I found a "new" egg broken on coop floor i.e. the shell was soft and pliable like...

Okay, I have an idea what broody chicks do cos one of our magpies went through it last year. We thought we'd lost her then found her under the upturned wheelbarrow sat on 9 eggs! But the same chicken and her sister magpie are now both acting weird. We have 4 chickens = 4 eggs/day but...

I'm Sue and I found this wonderful forum today when I was googling for an answer to my chickie problem....more of that later........... I'm not familiar with forums (or even how to post anything eek!) but first impressions - I'm impressed! So much to read it's amazing. Okay....... we have four...