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yes, I need to get that chicken wire out and get on that-- so much going on holy cow

Broody season on this farm usually coincides with rat snake season starting. (when alive) The good broody hen would set 2 weeks then the...

I'll have to watch for hatch with this one on porch, then pen her and chicks....to a more appropriate place 🤣

I have a hen on 4 eggs. 3rd broody this yr. One I gave eggs, they got broken, she stopped trying. Other, no eggs, she finally...

That's why I like silkie moms. They park themselves right next to each other and just hope the pile of eggs gets bigger. No fighting...

My two did fight and broke some eggs so I separated them--- they are tolerating each other :smack

My mama chicken is on the bottom and her sister is on top of her and they seem to fight who is going to be mamma this time . The other...

McMurry "used to" send an extra random chick with all orders. It's been years since I've ordered from them. Some will stay on the nest...

I don't know. Ive never used medicated feed even when I've had to use a brooder. Everyone gets an all flock food here. From newly...

"chicks hatched under a mother hen, while not being hatched with any immunity, seem not to suffer from coccidiosis at the rate that...

and Yea! broody #2 did poop yesterday before we left for church, now to get some chick feed and get a brooder pin set up.

Thank you, Its all an "experiment" test run,,, if it goes well and we get ANY hatched it will be good, and if none hatch , no loss. and...

Ya know, I have wondered this on 2 of mt Welsummer hens-- if Murry McMurry didnt slip 2 bantams Welsummers in my box,, all of the other...

Thank you, Yes so sad when knowledge is lost, and or force to be lost by the wonderful nanny USGOV, as with our Native American Tribes...

Exciting! Hope your hatch goes well!