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    Hen attacking brooding hens

    I've been really disappointed. My husband won't take the time to dislodge the broody birds until this weekend. I can't do it myself because I can't bend into where they are with my broken ankle. At least he's going out to get the lumber for the new coop and should be able to put a lot of it...
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    Hen attacking brooding hens

    Our coop is days away from being demolished and replaced, so I need to focus more on the dimensions of good replacement roosts/nests and the sizes they need and space they need. Right now we have an "upstairs" that they don't use, probably because the ramp is a pain in the neck and the upstairs...
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    Hen attacking brooding hens

    We happen to have a big dog crate! So, I would put litter, food, and water in it, dislodge the brooders to the dog crate, and then would I cover it up at night, like drape something over the top, then take it off again in the morning?
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    Hen attacking brooding hens

    How would we get them to stop brooding? By taking the eggs? Would it be that simple? Is there anything else we can do to help them stop brooding?
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    Hen attacking brooding hens

    Yes, verticality does not seem to work with these three hens. They refuse to go up to the enclosed coop and live in the run beneath the coop. We've had plenty of hens live "upstairs" but these haven't taken to it. I don't want mini flocks, but the chickens seem to segregate themselves. The two...
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    Hen attacking brooding hens

    Good to know, thank you. I don't know if there are any eggs. They nested between the feeder and the waterer and don't have to get up and they are not easy to dislodge. We don't have a rooster so the eggs won't hatch, leading them to brood...I don't know how that story ends, frankly. We've owned...
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    Hen attacking brooding hens

    Hello, We're experiencing a problem with a non-brooding hen attacking our brooding hens. Our Rhode Island Red is the one not brooding and the other two have taken up the preferred, previously shared nest. Our White Barred Plymouth Rock got up to take a walk in the run and the Rhode Island Red...
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    5.5 week old chicks in Seattle area--are our temps moderate enough to boot them outside?

    They're inside today, luckily. We're having a crazy day and may not get a chance to pen them until tomorrow night. Meanwhile, they're trying to pop the lid off the brooder by standing on the waterer (upside down mason jar type). I had to put a chunky tech book on the brooder lid. We weren't...
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    5.5 week old chicks in Seattle area--are our temps moderate enough to boot them outside?

    Hi, neighbor! The playpen idea is a great one; thank you! We may have enough material at the house to put that up this evening. The chicks will go nuts over real grass and access to our best dust bath.
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    5.5 week old chicks in Seattle area--are our temps moderate enough to boot them outside?

    BTW, to make this more complicated, our Cochins might be bantams. Not sure how I would tell. They're still smaller than our big girls, but aren't laying yet, so maybe they have more growing to do. But I remember the guy at the grange muttering something about bantam when I was picking them out...
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    5.5 week old chicks in Seattle area--are our temps moderate enough to boot them outside?

    Of course! We can move them downstairs, where it's about ten degrees cooler and has windows that open (we live in a mid-century house with large, non-opening windows). Thank you for jostling my brain! I'll miss their peeping, though. They wake up at the slightest movement and are better guard...
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    5.5 week old chicks in Seattle area--are our temps moderate enough to boot them outside?

    Talked to my husband and we agreed that the new coop we were planning to build in July/August will get built starting this weekend so we can get the little ones out into the big wide world. The vague plan is to make a large, human height run and have a "loose" raised coop inside the run that...
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    5.5 week old chicks in Seattle area--are our temps moderate enough to boot them outside?

    So that's where my bandwidth is going--it's not the human kids after all! Are you serious, though, when you say it's too cold for them? Our living room is like a green house and we're using a heat pump to stay at 74 degrees inside when it's about 65 degrees outside. Not sure how to ratchet them...
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    5.5 week old chicks in Seattle area--are our temps moderate enough to boot them outside?

    The section with the 2 Cochins is a bit small to subdivide again, even though the Cochins are pretty sedentary. But maybe we can build a temporary annex to get the chicks and Cochins to be buddies. I'll see if I can get my husband on that tonight. He knows what materials we have on hand and how...
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    5.5 week old chicks in Seattle area--are our temps moderate enough to boot them outside?

    Hello, We've bought pullets and raised them as pet hens for several years now. This is our first batch of chicks. They are now 5.5 weeks old. We've taken them off the heat lamp and they've been living in the brooder in our living room at standard indoor temps. I hate to lose them and put them...
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    Integrating Hen Cliques

    Thanks for the nudge to update my profile. I went ahead and did that. We're in Seattle, WA. Right now Highs range from low 70's to low 60's (F) and Lows are usually somewhere in the 50's. We've been having a relatively dry and sunny spring. We plan to build the new coop over vacation sometime...
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    Greetings

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? About 8 years ago. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 9 (3) What breeds do you have? White Plymouth Barred Rock, Black Australorp, Rhode Island Red, Cochin, Buff Orpington, Light Brahma (4) What are your favorite...
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    Integrating Hen Cliques

    Hello, We've been keeping chickens for at least 8 years now. We've had some chickens pass away and have added pullets from the local grange to our flock without problem. The last introduction went particularly well; we divided the run under the coop with puppy fencing and the two new girls were...
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