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Well my Easter Egger stopped laying about a month after starting a year and a half ago....and behold i went for eggs three weeks ago and there it was. A beautiful bluish egg layed by none other that the EE..And she has laid about 5 eggs a week since for the past three weeks. I have no idea why...

Anyone know of a mill that sells local chicken feed near pittsburgh, currently i run to tsc for $15/50 bag for my 3 hens but if i could get a 100# cheaper i would drive to get it. i have a camp in slippery rock, lots of farms up this way there has to be a local mill somewhere. would anyone...

last report i heard they were gonna have a meeting in late august to discuss a urban agriculture ordinance. Anyone hear how that went? We might be moving to hampton and I have 3 hens already. I hope they changed the law or we will have to go into hiding. Anyone else currently have hens...

Well she is back to laying, 2 days in a row now with good solid eggs. i guess she needed some calcium and the grass turd probably didnt help either. thanks for all your concerns

yeah a vet said that...no wonder i bather her and massaged her on my own..you expect real answers when you contact a professional..anyways the great news.....she laid an egg today! it was pale brown and thin so it was cracked but she laid an egg..i put some crushed oyster shell in the cage today...

after that she seemed to start moving more freely and started scratching around the yard and lookin for more grass..I had to go to work tho so she is cooped up with the other girls..her butt looked real clear after that removal and there seemed to be some feathers missing from that area but...

this am she had a poo hanging...it was covered in a whitish slime but was semi solid but hanging there so i tried to pull it with a stick and out came about a 10 inch long clump of matted grass...it was so matted it looked like string but it was grass..is this normal? i noticed one of these...

her butt looked cleaner than the rest..her eyes look clear, her comb bright red...i did not notice any odor at all..i finally seperated her tonight just to see if the other 2 are laying the eggs. i have not confired its her not laying, she just looked off tonight in the yard, her abdomen felt...

well ive been reading many articles here and still have some concerns on my hen who is no laying and acting funny. they were all egg laying machines and 2 weeks ago one stopped laying one day and the 3 girls have only produced 2 eggs since. i wasnt sure which one it was but tonight one seems...

well today i only got one egg out of a typical 3..i know they wont lay one everyday forever but i was just concerned for health..so now is 1 better or worse than 2? thier diet has stayed the same, so are they going to molt, getting ill, or just burning out? i only got 3 hens so im concerned...

I have 3 amber sex link hens that are laying machines..they lay an egg everday since last august except for a few 2 egg days through winter. all the sudden one hen was sitting on the nest real late one night and i went out to lock the coop and she was still there sleeping later that night with...

A call from the twnsp that late would be aweful..i know its scary but call them now and ask. i did cuz i was worried and they were like "we dont care as long as your neighbors dont" . I actulally dont fit the twnshp ordinance cuz i cant get 25 ft from the prop lines on all sides but my...

looks great so far...are you planning a poop board? unless you have a door that access is easy it would be hard to get to it but it has made cleanup a breeze on my similar sized coop..sweet pdz on the board under the roost bar and i bet 80% of poop is on it and scoop it like cat litter.

My TSP girls from last easter are red sex links and constant layers. Its been down to singles and low teens last week and all the sudden full bore production. 3 hens 3 eggs. they dropped to 2 a day for a week or so but here we go again.. these girls love to lay. being an urban chicken farmer, i...

ok so my co-workers got some chickens after i did however their chickens stopped laying almost immediatley and not much for about 4 months..i learned at first they were only feeding them cracked corn..i didnt want to be bossy cause im new to chicken farming myself so i hinted at chicken feed...