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    Swapping broody hens eggs for chicks - help!

    She's out and about now, causing a ruckus like nothing ever happened Never a dull moment with my girls! Love them
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    Swapping broody hens eggs for chicks - help!

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    Swapping broody hens eggs for chicks - help!

    Thanks so much for the input. I'm worried that the chicks might be too old to graft now. Plus the broody hens behavior has changed, she was leaving the nesting box and last night slept in a roost. Going to see if we can break the broodiness instead. We lost 5 chicks in transit and don't want to...
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    Swapping broody hens eggs for chicks - help!

    We've just bought some chicks to add to our flock. One of our hens is broody and has been sitting on (unfertilized) eggs for a couple of weeks. We've just removed the eggs and placed two of the new chicks under her hoping she'd take to them. Everything went fine, she fluffed herself up, adjusted...
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    Broody chicken, need advice!

    Ok I'm going to look into cancelling the egg order. This is our first girl to become broody, we're new to this so thanks so much for the input. Greatly appreciated! We're less concerned now as shes been mixing with the other girls, eating and drinking etc when we've taken the eggs away. We'll...
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    Broody chicken, need advice!

    Just one egg as we have 15 babies coming next month.
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    Broody chicken, need advice!

    My Buff O has become broody. We've ordered a fertilized egg for her but it won't be here for a week. Do we leave her with her unfertilized egg for the time being, or remove it?
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    Chickens won't roost!

    My SLW and Australorpe are about 6 months old, my other girls are about 2 months older (just starting to lay). The young'uns won't roost! I've caught them recently sleeping in one of the nesting boxes (squished in together). Is this normal? They were introduced to the flock late and were a fair...
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    Antisocial ducks!

    Thanks for the advice guys. We're going to just see how things go. They seem pretty happy so long as we (humans and chickens) keep our distance! Maybe they'll chill out a bit when they start laying. They are well fed and looked after, I think I'm just a worrier!
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    Antisocial ducks!

    I need some advice! My 2 ducks (about 6 months old) refuse to leave their coop/run. In the picture you can see my duck coop: a little house for them, a sitting/feeding area and a pond. The far side of this structure is my chicken coop and run. There's a communal area between the two runs that...
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    Squatting when I pet them. What does that mean?

    I'm so glad I came across this thread! I have 6 birds, only 2 so far are laying. My leghorn has been doing the squat thing, I got the impression that she was uncomfortable, gritting her beak and just waiting for the petting to be over with! Our other layer, a Buff Orpington doesn't do it though...
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    Identify my egg layer!

    Thank so much guys, these are my first ever chickens, so it's all very new (and exciting!) for me! I really appreciate the input!
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    Identify my egg layer!

    Hello! My Buff Orpington recently started laying, sometimes every other day. The egg on the left was from her yesterday, and I've just picked up the one on the right from the nesting box. A slight difference in size and color (so far her eggs have been on the small size). Could the egg on the...
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    Our first eggs!

    I love all these egg pictures It's ridiculous how excited I was to find mine! This particular chickens personality has changed too, doesn't mind being touched or picked up, and quite chatty! Now hoping the rest will join in. We have an ameracuana, australorp, silver laced wyandotte, buff...
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    Our first eggs!

    These are from my leg horn, they were actually really small, they just look big in my tiny raccoon hands
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    Our first eggs!

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    Our first eggs!

    Very excited to have our first eggs from our girl Kentucky! Just waiting on the others to start producing now, lazy free loaders! She's laying late morning/early afternoon, is that normal?
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    Introducing 4wk chicks to 7wk?

    Thanks so much! Will give it a go :)
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    Introducing 4wk chicks to 7wk?

    We recently lost our RIR (rip Big Red) and decided to replace her quickly, to hopefully avoid any bullying from the others. Just in case there were any problems, we ordered two new chicks, so at least they'd have each other as the new kids in the coop (we've only had chickens for 3 weeks so are...
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    Can anyone tell the sex of this chicken?

    Supposedly 4 weeks when we got it and we've had it for 1 week
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