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🐣 :weee:weee🐣 We have a chick holy moly

I like these panels Its day 21 for broody hen #1's eggs,, I am going to just let them be and re-candle them if they havent hatched by...

Well good Monday to all, I got the brooder panels set up yesterday, they worked out great! Its day 20 for broody#1 I candled the 6 eggs...

Don't waste your money. The hens will protect the chicks...and they will take them back to the nest. Open the door to coop for...

I JUST DONT want to deal with chicken wire! so I am going to see how these work out, the chicks only need to stay in them with mamma hen...

same here, i could do a lot more if i had clones or a different body, but that ain't happening so i deal with it as best i can. i don't...

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...