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Help! I've got a broody Marans that I have been unable to break. She's been broody for a month now, so in desperation, I finally gave her some eggs. I hope that according to Murphy's law, that will cause her to break. So what if they hatch? The nesting boxes are high. Will I have to get them...

We've had a lot of rain so maybe that's it? I just couldn't believe it ate a chick. My brooder is on the screen porch, so I made sure the lid was on tight!

Enough of this snake drama! This time it happened to my BF. She called yesterday about 8:30 hyperventilating about a snake. It had gotten in with her juveniles. I sent my (hire-a) hubby to help. Just a rat snake, smaller than the one that I captured. DH told her not to worry it wouldn't eat...

Such a beautiful bird. So sorry for your loss!

Knock on wood, I have yet to have a broody. We collect eggs throughout the day, so they don't usually have a clutch to sit on. And the last time I left them for an extended period of time, the snake ate the eggs before there got to be too many. I don’t know what I would do with a...

I'm thinking of sending my EE for necropsy. But I think the guy from the lab will be in town so I won't have to ship.

More chicken drama! I went home for lunch today, and found my youngest EE dead. She was 15 mo. old. Didn't see signs of predators or mites. Might have drowned, as it has rained a lot here. RIP Happy Feet

Worries were unfounded. 5 whole eggs and most importantly, no snake!

I hate that for you! I hope it's isolated. Is there a lab that you can send it to? I think Ga has one. My friend lost some birds to moldy food. Somehow water got down in the feeder. Looked fine up top, but the bottom was a different story.

So nervous about checking the boxes today. I HOPE the snake is gone, but yestetday one of the birds was eating the egg the snake crushed. Hope it doesn't develop into an egg eater. Have y'all dealt with that (besides the pesky blue jay lol)? I cleaned the box up and changed all the nesting material.

I went home on my lunch break to make sure the snake had not returned, and it had! It was waiting patiently in one of the nesting boxes, while the Dominquer was laying in the next one over. I think the snake's meal had been interrupted, as there was a broken BCM egg (which my Dominiquer was...

Baby steps. Stay strong and go get some chickens!

It was a garter snake, but it was HUGE! Atleast 3 feet long. And it ate atleast 5 eggs based on what came back out of it. I had TWO eggs, and one of those was all cracked and gross. This morning the girls are still so freaked, I got a softshelled egg. Hopefully they'll get back to normal...

We went out of town for a quick Sat night trip. I had a neighbor come and close up the coop and open it up the next morning to protect against those pesky raccoons. I didn't have them check for eggs so they wouldn't even have to go in the run. We got home Sunday with lots of sunlight left, so...

Prayers for you MC!

Looks like he's flying off on the right side?

I'm game

We processed ours at 6 weeks, and they were small, but delicious. I had no qualms with it...zero attachment, mainly bc they were kind of gross. My friend did hers at 8 weeks, which was a better size, so this years will probably be done about the same time. All right, nobody judge, but...

What a sweet girl you have there. I know you can't wait to see what she does on this next visit!