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I have a rooster who is about 8 months old. He started REALLY crowing about a month ago. For the last week, he has been crowing ALL night though. He is so loud that he is waking us up at night. Our other rooster was a lazy bum and never crowed after he went to bed. Is this something that...

I have a hen who just hatched chicks on the 8th. She is sitting in the nesting box again doing the broody thing. The chicks keep trying to hang out with her but she is in there all day. I have to poke her to get her off the nest. Is it possible that she wants to hatch more?

The sweet rooster that I always bragged about. The one that is so good to the ladies and has never been aggressive. Yep, that same rooster who is roughly 18 months old decided to take a swipe at me today. Luckily, I saw him hopping behind me so I knew something was up and was able to dodge so...

I'm sorry if this has been posted but I can't find anything. We live in SE Georgia and are having some heavy wild fires. The smoke has gotten so bad that it is seeping into our house and we need to leave. My chickens are all outside breathing this crap in and I don't know what to do. Does...

I am up to my eyeballs in broody hens. This was definitely not something that we had planned for. The broodies have overtaken the brooding boxes and all of the nesting boxes so the laying hens are having trouble finding a spot to lay. This is what I get for wanting a broody! It is a hormonal...

All of these chicks are two months old. 6 of them were hatched from EE eggs, 2 bought from a feed store that sold them as RIR but I can NOT tell you which ones are which. My roo is red and a red chick is a red chick to me still. Also, please excuse my poor excuse of a camera. Its older than...

Ok I was all excited about having broodies at first because it was our first time, but now I'm quite over it. One of my hens who hatched April 19th has gone broody again. Grrrr.

My broody hatched 6 babies 2 days ago. She finally brought them out into the yard this morning. A storm snuck up on us and the chickens were caught in a down pour. I'm guessing she couldn't make it back to the brooder so she huddled them under a pile of brush. We went out there shortly after...

I have 6 chicks that just hatched. Two of those are from Barred Rock eggs. The roo is an EE. One chick has a white spot on the head and the other is solid black. If the chicks are crossed with EE can the spot still help determine gender? Also, is it possible to determine the layer of the...

Is it possible for a 7 month old pullet to go broody? One of my SLWs is doing the growl, puffing up and continuing to sit in the nesting boxes. Is this even possible?

My roo has started to become a little rough with certain ladies. They have all been together for about 18 months now. Two girls are missing feathers off of their backs. One has a big bare spot in her neck where he grabs them when he mates. These are my two alpha hens so they don't go down...

I have a girl who has been broody for a couple of weeks now. When she comes off the nest its crazy out in the yard. Several other hens (some pullets) start attacking her and she fights with them. We're talking spurring and full out fighting. The girls have never had an issue with her before...

I have a banty that acts like she is broody. About a month and a half ago I thought she was going broody. She sat on the nest for a week, puffed up when you went near her, growled and all of that good stuff. Then after a week she got up and went back to normal. I put eggs under her thinking...

Will two mama hens with chicks fight if they are together? Will the chicks stay with the right mom? I have one that is about to come off the nest. The other broody is out in the yard and the other girls don't bother her but she fluffs up and anyone who comes near her. Will they just stay...

I posted this on the broody thread too but that thing goes so fast that things get lost. I have a broody who is sitting on eggs and is on day 23. She got up this morning and then sat on the wrong nest. I put her back but another poster said the eggs probably wouldn't hatch. I tried to candle...

I have a pullet that started laying about a month and a half ago. She laid about a weeks worth of fart eggs and it has been double yolkers since. Its good for breakfast but these things are massive. Will she level out soon or are some birds just destined to lay big eggs?

I have a set of 4 chicks that are about 5-6 days old. I got up this morning and one of the chicks was laying down and not moving. It isn't dead but it is definitely not well. If I pick it up it will give some weak peeps and open its eyes but then resumes laying down and closing its eyes. I...

I have a SLW that makes the WORST sound when she is getting ready to lay. She makes this awful loud low pitch screeching sound. It sounds like a mix between eagle and dinosaur. Ok I know, strange. After she lays she does the normal egg song. Is this just her sounds or could something be wrong?

I'm still new to this. We have a broody who has been sitting on eggs for a while. One of my other hens got into the broody nest 2 days after Day 1. From what I'm reading the broody won't continue to sit on that egg if it is too long after the first hatch? Is it possible to move that egg into...

Ever since some of the other hens have gone broody, my alpha hen is acting like she is broody too. But she's not. She's still laying and doing business as normal. When she is in the nesting box she does the cover stance and squawks at us. When we pass her in the yard she fluffs up and does...