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Thanks! And yes I do usually spray it down but I feel like it just doesn't clean as much as I'd like. Sometimes I have to shovel out the pea gravel in their favorite spots because they congregate there frequently. We're also in PA so now that the temps are dropping its getting harder to use the...

This is our first year with ducks and I was pretty proud of our duck coop/run until I realized how hard pea gravel is to clean. Does anyone have any suggestions as to a better flooring? I was contemplating putting fake grass over top or moving to some sort of pavers. Also, any suggestions for a...

Thank you so much for all of the information!

Ok, so we just have to wait for their cycle to restart then? I really appreciate the information. My other girls did the normal decreased production over the winter, but we didn't get eggs from these girls until like December so it seemed a little weird. But if they have a different cycle that...

Sorry, like I said in my post I had no information on them since they were dumped. I initially posted on here when I first got them to find out what they were and was told game hens. I appreciate you being able to determine that they are American game hens. And yes I've been collecting the eggs...

They all seem healthy. Since it's also the other one that was rehomed, I was thinking it might be a breed thing. And they all had normal production until this past week. It's so weird.

From what I've been told from others on this site, they're game hens. I've attached a picture of them.

One was broody a little while ago, but not anymore. And I didn't notice mites but I can check them.

I know chickens slow down typically in winter, but these were new to my flock and started laying in winter. The rest of my chickens are over 2 years old and I've had them since 2 days old so I know their typical pattern. I had talked to a person at my local TSC when I first got the game hens and...

Does anyone know if game hens are seasonal layers? So last September someone dumped a flock of game hens at one of our local state parks. We ended up taking 3 hens. They started laying in December and have been consistent layers. We had to rehome one of the hens about a month ago because her...

Thank you! That's what I was thinking after looking them up when it was mentioned in my other post. Any ideas on age?

I posted these chickens a few weeks ago after we got them and it seems like they may be game birds. They were dumped at a local state park along with about 20-30 others. The other woman who helped catch them and I believe they are juveniles but not really sure what their ages are. Anyone have...

Thanks everyone for your responses! They definitely seem to be wary of people so I don't think they were handled much prior to the dumping. They are settling a bit now. I don't think we'll ever know their origins since there are no cameras where they were initially found. They were in a parking...

We need help figuring out what type of chickens we just got. Someone posted on our local community page that there were 20-30 bantams dumped at our local state park. We went out with a few other community members to try and round them up and we came home with these two. We just aren't sure how...

Update: I believe all of my hens are now laying as I am getting 8 distinctly different colored eggs. I am consistently getting a smaller blue egg that makes me believe that my white chicken is a Legbar. Here's a picture of the 8 different eggs. The lighting makes two of them look white but the...