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    Hello from Kelly! New to Chickens, but Loving Every Moment!

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes, I’m brand new to chickens! I got my first flock last summer (2024) from Tractor Supply Co. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? I currently have 16 chickens: 3 roosters and 13 hens. I also recently hatched 4 chicks that...
  2. A

    Found a dead chick next to my broody hen

    Today I went outside to find a dead chick next to my broody hen. There are no other chickens in with her. What could have happened? Did she kill them? And should I remove the other eggs that she’s sitting on? I left it for a while to make sure it wasn’t alive and when I came back out she had...
  3. Raymber

    Male or female

    I hatched a few of my own eggs from my flock. The Rooster I believe is a Sapphire Gem chicken, it was labeled as Blue Rock at TSC. Anyway, the hen is Black Sex link. I am wondering if I can tell the sex of the chick at hatch, or is that not possible. I’m still learning about the whole autosexing...
  4. Chickenluv22

    Possible interbred baby chicks?

    Hi. 2 of my hens have gone Brody a couple days ago. 1 of them was Brody last year and hatched some baby’s and we only kept the hens of that hatch. The other Brody hen is one of the ones that was hatched by the other hen last spring. We have one rooster and he does mate with his daughters (he is...
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