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P.S. - Our rooster has been "on his last day" for a few months now. Fortunately for him, he's good-looking, the right breed, and fertile (we have the babies now to prove it). I don't know why other people keep mean roosters around, but I keep getting more reason to keep ours. He's not really...

Sorry, I've been off on chicken and farm duty Thanks for all the good advice. We're going to move Hazel and her brood to her own chicken "tractor" in the field. I think she's about at her limit for being confined in the same area, albeit the nicest chicken area on the farm. I took all but one...

Thank you for the reply. I wanted to have ma hen raise these little ones as "naturally" as possible so I was hoping to integrate them into the flock. Abby, the hen that killed one of her chicks and one of the other hens, is still in the flock, along with a few other less than friendly hens, so I...

We have our first chicks hatched under a hen (previously we were buying chicks). Mom (Hazel) had access in and out of her own little house all during brooding and so stayed "in touch" with the other hens and rooster. Now I have poultry netting up so she can run around outside with her chicks...