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I would check the nesting boxes and the coop to make sure their is nothing in there. When a snake was getting into my coop the hens would start to make that noise. They make that noise everytime they are startled by something. Normally they are quite calm and quiet. If you are concerned about...

Thanks Speckled Hen. Maybe it is the heat then. I really hope they start to produce eggs for us again. Many people are disappointed right now because we dont have eggs for them.

They just turned a year old this past week. I have not seen any of the girls eat the eggs. They normally lay them and leave them. As for their diet. That has been the same. They were on the chick feed while they were 6 months and under then we switched them to Layer feed after they turned 6...

Hello. My Chickens have just turned a year old. They were laying really good. We would get about 18 eggs a day and then it dropped down to about 12 when it started to get warm. There was a snake getting in and eating the eggs but i caught him. Yesterday we didnt have any eggs. Today we only got...

Thank you so much for your ideas. I will do that. I had no idea that the other hens would go after the chicks. I will have to definitely be careful. We did the brooder thing with the chickens we have now. We just figured that if htey had the chicks themselves and raised them themselves that...

Thanks for the welcome. Yes it is. I havent post much but i have been reading through quite a few of these since i signed up. I learned most of what i know from this forum.

Wow. Thanks for all the info. It has been really helpful. I just checked some eggs a hen was sitting on for a couple of days now and Yes they were fertile. So now we are going to let her sit on some so we will have baby chicks. Now for my questions. How do you seperate the hen from the others...

My husband and I are looking to see if anyone knows of a poultry processing plant in New Jersey that will do small amount. The ones we have found so far are big processing plants. They wont do it because they can not garentee that we will get our same birds back. Thanks for your help.