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Welcome to BYC! We’re glad you finally took the plunge!

They’re awesome! Aside from the cool colored eggs they have a lot of personality. A blue egger of some variety is on my list for next year!

Added to my flock this spring with 6 Olive eggers and got my first egg from them yesterday! First egg feeling all over again!

There’s a lot of different methods. The article that rosemarythyme posted by aart is really helpful. The main idea is to make them uncomfortable and to cool them down. If you don’t want to put them in a broody jail then you’ll need to keep removing her from the nest and set her down where...

I second that. It can also be “contagious” as well. Once one starts others may follow, I just went through something similar myself where it started with 1 and I then had 5 broody at the same time. Best to break her fast if you don’t plan on letting her hatch them.

I’m not an expert by any means but looks like a hen then. By 3 months a cockerel usually has a much larger comb (not always but usually). Some of the pictures are hard to tell, if you could get better pictures of the saddle and hackle feathers that may be helpful. For now based off of what I’m...

How old are they? Did you get them from the pullet or straight run bin? The speckled Sussex I’m a little suspect of in the first two pictures, are pics 1-3 all the same bird? I can confidently tell you the sapphire gem is a pullet as they’re sex-linked so a cockerel would be barred.

Thank you!!

I was encouraged after she was showing interest in water this morning but she ended up passing this afternoon. I feel bad because she was one of my favorites, but I feel like I did everything I could to try and save her. It’s part of life and a part of livestock/pet ownership, I suppose it can’t...

She seems to be showing a little improvement today! She got off the roost on her own this morning and was interested in drinking water on her own for the first time. Thank you both for your help! I’ll update more as the week goes on @TillyPeeps @coach723

Thank you, that is encouraging!! I’m hoping she starts to turn it around a little tomorrow. I got the second dose of safeguard in her tonight and I got her some water via syringe which she seemed to be more accepting of this evening. We’ll see what tomorrow holds. Hoping for the best as she’s a...

Okay thanks that’s encouraging. No lice or mites. I have been giving her water and electrolytes with a syringe as well.

so I gave her round one of safeguard last night. Pretty much the same this morning she hasn’t left the roost although she did eat a few mealworms which she refused yesterday morning. How long before I would start to see some improvement? Also this is pictures of her poop this am idk if that...

Thanks so much! I really appreciate it!!

I’m going to run to tractor supply now thank you! Do you do egg withdrawal and how long?

My vet doesn’t test unfortunately. I have 16 hens and one rooster and a broody who hatched 11 chicks almost two weeks ago. Everyone else is normal, I had two hens acting weird for a day (about a week ago) until I gave them some electrolytes and they have been fine since. What do you use for a...

She definitely hasn’t laid the last two days so today is either day 3 or 4. I felt her crop last night as well and it was empty then too. She really won’t eat, she ate 3 meal worms yesterday but that was it while I was watching her. I have never wormed her, could that be it possibly?