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  1. RainbowFlower

    Encouraging chickens to lay

    I have 4 RIR cross pullets which are now about 23 weeks old. The breeder said they would start to lay between 20 and 24 weeks, but they are showing no signs of laying yet. Two of them have redder combs and wattles than the other 2 (someone on here said that is a sign they are nearly ready to...
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    How will I know?

    I have 4 Rhode Island Red/New Hampshire cross pullets, which are about 22 weeks old. The breeder told me they would start to lay any time between 20 and 24 weeks at this time of year. Is there any indicators that they are about to lay? They were sleeping in their nest boxes, but I closed...
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    Won't go outside

    Last week I bought 4 Rhode Island Red 20 week old pullets, from a commercial breeder. They won't come out of their coop. I have a two storey coop, which has a nesting boxes, and roosts upstairs and a wire mesh area downstairs. Occasionally they will come through the trapdoor into the bottom...
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