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		<title>How Long Will A Chicken Stay Broody?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I know you&#8217;ve addressed this topic before but I&#8217;d like to know how long a chicken will stay broody. I&#8217;ve got one that&#8217;s going on six weeks. There&#8217;s no roosters. Just eleven hens. I most always let them out to wander the backyard at night for an hour or two before sunset.
I&#8217;ve been throwing out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chickens Digging Holes&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 00:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hi. I enjoy your newsletter very much. I am a fairly new chicken owner. I have 2 Rhode Island Red Hens. I don&#8217;t know if it is their breed and I understand chickens &#8220;scratch&#8221; the ground, but my girls dig holes. They dig along the edges of their coop. They are in a huge coop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Issues With Broody Hens</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I have a question: Not coming from a chicken oriented background, I&#8217;ve had very poor luck in getting a broody hen to keep other hens from laying in her nest, so the nesting goes on &#8211; like &#8211; forever, and I even had a banty hen starve to death while setting, trying to get the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At What Age Does A Hen Go Broody?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I would like to know if there is a certain age that a hen will start setting on eggs if she is going to be a broody? What would be the youngest age that she would start setting if she were going to? Thank you for any information that you might be able to give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Chickens With Dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We acquired a Blue Heeler puppy last July 2009, thinking that she would grow up with chickens and not hurt them. Now she enjoys chasing them. At nine months old, we think she killed one hen today. The head was completely bitten off. These hens are normally protected in their run, but we let the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rooster Turns On His Hen &amp; Snake Repellent&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I always enjoy receiving and reading your weekly newsletter, so thank you very much for that.
I actually have two questions. First, what would make a rooster turn on a hen? We have a mixed bagged of 14 chickens of varying ages and 2 roosters. Our older rooster has turned on an older chicken. He will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chickens Pecking Each Other To Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hi Wendy, My chickens have been pecking each other along the sides of their bodies for several months. During that time several of the chickens have had wounds that bled. I was advised to used corn starch to dry the wounds. This morning I went into the coop and one of my chickens was dead. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Room Do My Hens Need To Roam?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I was curious how much room my hens need to roam and still be happy. I was letting them roam the entire yard but spring is near and I would like to give the young blooms and flowers a fighting chance to grow. Thanks for your time!&#8221; ~ Diana
Hi Diana,
Thanks for the question.
If your ladies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Hen That Crows Like A Rooster?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hi! Love your newsletter! I have four Banty Hens and a Rooster. Mr. Ricardo crows when I cone home in the morning. Lately, Lucy, one of my hens has been crowing after the rooster crows! It was an awkward crow at first, but now she&#8217;s a little louder, and she definitely crows.
The locals here in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reintroducing a Recovered Hen Back Into The Flock</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I had a chicken last weekend who when I went to put them to bed, couldn&#8217;t walk/ jump/ fly and was rolling her head, I picked her off of the bottom of the floor level coop (not her coop) and brought her inside, alarm bells obviously raised thinking it was Marek&#8217;s or Newcastle disease with [...]]]></description>
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