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    Thank you!!!!

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    Mother hen is my name

    I ended up with 7 broody hens up until last week. They all hactched off their eggs except one. A first time broody left the nest with three chicks and left one egg that was pipping. With the Georgia heat it didn't hamper that final hatch and I found the chick just after it shed it's shell. I...
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    Can I have the nest box level with the coup floor?

    I have both high and floor level boxes. In all honesty the girls just find the most convenient spot to lay. Sometimes they lay in the same box as the ducks.
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    I have a rant - BYC Advertising

    There are ads on here??? I never notice them. I'm focused on what the forums have in them. Some, like this one, are pretty entertaining.😂
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    I'm Done Selling Eggs Online

    Years ago I did some buying and selling on eBay. Once I bought a wine cooler. It arrived and it was beat up and dented. It didn't cool at all. I contacted the seller through eBay and was told I could take it to Best Buy and get a brand new replacement. Really? She stopped responding on eBay...
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    Can pullets raise chicks? /hatching under a pullet?

    Every hatch I had in the last year has been from pullets. My oldest birds are just now turning a year old and I agree the chicks are small, but pullets are good to raise them. I figured that if they're laying and breeding, they can hatch and raise.
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    Weird things only poultry people get.

    A girl I know went all out. She bought an incubator and brooder with all the trimmings. She bought 10 chickens and waited patiently for them to lay eggs. She faithfully gathered eggs every morning and filled her incubator to capacity. She waited and waited. Day 21 came and went. Day 25 came and...
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    Cooling off the Chickens?

    I freeze plastic shoe boxes full of water and dump a couple into their watering pan. It takes a while to melt so provides them with cool water for quite a while. I also hose down the main roost area in the coop, provide old lawn furniture for extra shade and hose down the outside of the coop
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    How Many PET Chickens Are In Your Flock?

    I have about 53 birds. 43 chickens not counting the newest hatched. A turkey and 9 ducks. I have favorite birds because of demeanors or coloring but I don’t consider them pets. They’re all expendable if the need arises or one poses a threat to the flock as a whole.
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    Hen Sleepwalking or a Vampire?

    The majority of my chickens go to roost around 5pm, but I do have some that wait until there’s barely any light left to get on the roost. I’ve had them walk around because they’re lost in the dark and can’t figure out where the roost is.
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    Hens complaining after rooster crows

    I used to have a rooster that sounded the alarm every time I stepped into the chicken yard because I always knocked him off the young pullets when he tried to mount one. The older hens tended to cackle and complain. Especially if it was after roost. I eventually dispatched him because he killed...
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    My drake is laying eggs?

    I have Perkins and Mallards and every time we change their water we witneess a duck orgy. The female Perkins all mount each other while Doofus the Drake stands outside the pool and watches. I don't think Doofus has ever successfully bred.
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    Two rooster same coop

    Right now I have about 3 or 4 cockerels growing out plus my two 1 year old roosters with about 35 hens and pullets. All in the same coop and yard. I plan to weed out the cockerels after the batch of new chicks my hens are hatching grow out. I'm pretty sure I'll end up with a few more cockerels...
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    How many chickens do you have?

    I started out with three a year ago. Last count was 43, but I lost a couple here or there. I also have 9 ducks and a turkey. I have 24 chicken eggs under six broody hens and a mallard duck sitting on about 15 eggs. Yesterday a Pekin duck started sitting but I'm not sure how many eggs are...
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    Kittens

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    Kittens

    I found this on Google
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    Question re: fake egg usage?

    I just raided my golf bag and put out golf balls in the nesting boxes. Left them for a week and they all got the idea. I don't have to do that with my new layers because they want to lay where the other we r chickens lay. I'll find 4 eggs in one box some days.
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    Who knew?

    The extra boys will go to freezer camp and the girls will join the flock
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    Who knew?

    the nests are in separate boxes . All eggs in each nest are the same start date. They are just switching nests. When more than one gets out to do self maintenance they come back and get on the first nest they come to whether it's the one they started on it not.
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    Who knew?

    Ok, so I got five broody hens at this time. I was gonna be all meticulous and write down the chicken name, number if eggs, day one, 10 day candle results and perspective hatch date. Who knew that when three broody hens get off their nests at the same te they just hop on the first available nest...
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