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Hey y'all! I have a 1.5 year old white leghorn that I raised from a chick at tractor supply. All six of them started laying about 4.5 months old and I received about 4-5 eggs a day from them even through winter. When spring came they went through what I assumed was a molt and they all stopped...

So I have a Orpington cross who has broody tendencies. I went to visit my parents for a week because I'm 26 weeks pregnant and won't have another chance to see them until you second son is born. I left my well meaning husband in charge of the chickens while I was gone. Before, I was getting...

Yes the coop is secure. The coop is about two feet off the ground, latches on every door. I remove the ramp that leads up into the coop at night. The raccoon has not been able to get into the coop. It was getting to the chickens when they went outside in the early morning through the wire of the...

For several weeks now, my Orpington cross has weaned her babies and joined the rest of the flock on the roosts. She's been laying again for 3 weeks now and I get an egg almost every day. Most of the chicks have also Started roosting. They are about 12 weeks old. She still hangs out with them...

This is my first experience with predators. The past two nights I have lost a chicken a night. The first one, a young rooster, tried to fly into the run wall where there is a small hole (cut into the wire by us to allow easy access to the chicken door) to get away from whatever it was and got...

This is my broody hen Butterscotch. As you can see her seven, four week old babies no longer fit underneath her. When will she kick them off the nest? Not sure if I should move her back to the big coop with the other hens or not. She and the babies have been in a separate hutch since she started...

Hey y'all! My babies are now 3 weeks old and I need help figuring out their genders and maybe breeds too. I bought a broody hen and 10 eggs from a backyard farmer who didn't need anymore chicks. 7 of 10 eggs hatched and these are them. This one came out of a blue egg. I've named her White Tip...

This is my Rhode Island Red Ruby, though the older she gets the more I think she is actually a he. What do you think? 13 weeks old.

Hey y'all! I bought this broody hen on Craigslist a few weeks ago with some hatching eggs and yesterday 7 babies hatched. The broody hen is a orphington, but she's not the biological mom to any of the chicks. I need help figuring out the chicks breeds. These are the breeds she says she has in...

So I went outside to take care of my chickens yesterday and let my broody hen off the nest. Once I got her off, I noticed one of her eggs was broken and empty. Looks like she cracked it open and ate the insides. I just candled the other day and they were all developing. She has food and water in...

Well, I figure that if she was getting off the nest I'd see poop in the hutch. It's always clean and the food and water level never decreases.

Guys, I'm so excited! I'm on day 7 of incubation under my broody hen Butterscotch and I just candled for the first time. 9 of my ten eggs are developing and I even got to see one of the chicks kick her legs inside the shell. The tenth egg was unfertilized. Butterscotch is a great mommy so far...

Hey thanks everyone for your advice and input. I went ahead and bought her and the eggs. I picked her up in the evening. I filled a box with pine shavings and two dummy eggs and she immediately shoved them under her. And once I got her home I placed the fertilized eggs in the nest box and she...

Hey y'all! I wanted to see you opinions here or if anyone else has done this. A woman on Craigslist near my is selling her broody buff Orpington with some fertile eggs from her flock. As I don't have breeds that will ever go broody and I have a desire for new chicks, this is very appealing to...