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No, but this had only been going on for a couple of days.

Yes, she does fluff up, and she makes a noise, but it's not really a growl. More like repeating short, low clucks continuously, which I've never heard her do before. And no, she's not sleeping on her roost. She's currently sleeping on the floor of the coop, on some eggs. She's slept there...

Hi everyone, I have three hens, approximately two years old. One of them went broody a couple of months ago, so I got her some fertilized eggs ( I don't have any roosters), three of which hatched about four weeks ago. Due to some extremely hot days here, I put the chicks in with the other two...

Thanks for all of the replies! I ended up letting mom and babies spend the day in the pen together, while the other two hens were out free ranging. Everyone seemed happy!

Hi all, I have been reading through some of the other questions and answers on this subject, but most of them pertain to chicks hatched in an incubator. Mine were hatched by a hen, and they are two weeks old now. I have mom and babies in a small brooder coop I built. The chicks don't spend...

Thanks so much! I just wanted to make sure I do this right.

Hello, I have a broody hen who has been sitting on unfertalized eggs for about a week. I've decided to buy her a couple of fertilized eggs to hatch, but I just want to make sure I'm understanding everything first. So I just need some clarification here: so if she hatches eggs, I don't have to...

I found these in my yard, behind the coop this morning. I'm assuming they're from the stray light Sussex I took in last week. Two of them are cracked, but aside from those, do they look normal? These are our first eggs, and I just want to make sure they're ok to eat (not the cracked ones).

Thank you! I had made arrangements with a friend from work to buy one of her neighbor's chickens this week, so mine could have a friend, but as I posted in another thread, my neighbors down the street had a stray chicken show up at their house last night! No idea where these chickens are...

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! I have bought the materials to build a pen around the coop, but I just haven't been able to do it yet. As I said, I was not at all prepared to raise a chicken. I think she will be more likely to go in her coop if she's confined to the pen, rather than...

Mine sleeps in a tree, out of reach, although my son did climb up there one day and got her down so we could put her in her coop. Sometimes, though, she just climbs higher, and since my son is a grown man, he can only climb so high after her before branches start to break. The other one slept...

Thank you! She was actually eating right out of my hand today, but she wouldn't stray too far from the safety of the pine tree. I like the idea of leaving a trail leading to my house, I will try that! As far as I know, there are no farms or slaughterhouses anywhere nearby. I know there is...

Hello, I just joined today, and I posted in the introduction thread, explaining that a little hen showed up out of nowhere and decided to live in my side yard about two months ago. I live in a neighborhood where there are no chickens, so I don't know where she came from. Anyway, I built her a...

Hi everyone, I am new to all of this,, and I already have a million questions, so thank you in advance for any help you can give me, and please bear with me for my long-winded post. My name is Maria, and I live in Michigan, where it's really cold right now. About two months ago, a beautiful...