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    broody hen in main chicken house?

    thanks eveybody for the quick replies:D Fingers crossed we'll leave her where she is: I do have a puppy cage i could in the run using an old mower grasscatcher as a nesting box ? - When she comes out to eat the others peck her though Rocky our rooster is very protective (normal behaviour for...
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    broody hen in main chicken house?

    hi We are excited as we have a young silkie hen that has gone broody in the nesting box attached to the hen house (3 days). this is where our hens roost at night. All our other hens (2 light sussex,2 Barnvelders ) went off lay a couple of weeks ago and appear to be going through a moult ? so...
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    mixing ages/breeds of chicks in a brooder box

    hi i have had my first 3 silkie chicks (nearly five weeks - unsexed) for two weeks now and they are doing really well. I am getting some new chicks tomorrow. They are 2 x barnevelders as day olds and 2 x light Sussex as 2 week olds (female). will i be able to put them all in the same brooder...
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