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It may take three more weeks but before you know it, it will calm down. I just went through it introducing three new hens to my existing three and a roo. They were pretty relentless, and my newbies were submissive. It took all I had not to interfere (well ok, I did once or twice - they were...

If you can figure out how to break that habit I would love to know! I have a 6 month old GLW who sounds like she's dying a slow death every day!!! I too am waiting for my neighbors to complain!

I had my 3 hens eating eggs for the better part of a year. I tried wooden eggs, filling them with soap, mustard, hot sauce, they ate them anyway! Finally my husband built a nest box where they roll into a little compartment that they can't get at and bingo! I started getting eggs again. They are...

These are selfies of us LOL i hope you can see it. The dark part flaps because it is separated from her scalp. I'll try to keep an eye on who's bullying her and if it's the same GLS should I separate her?

I forgot this bit of background. I have had the new ones inside the coop but sectioned off with a fence for about 3 weeks. When i let them out, they are all out in "their" yard, or in "our yard". So it's not like they are new to the existing flock. I just have mean girls!!

I'm in the process of integrating one SLW and two Ameracaunas (all 22 week olds) with 3 - 3 yr old Golden Sex Links. The GSL's pick on my poor Wyandotte relentlessly. Last night I realized her comb had been pecked, the top tip is dark and separated from her skin. They don't seem to bother the...

Congratulations!! It IS exciting!! And even after 3 years it never gets old to me. Wait till you taste them . . . .

Interesting about the delayed lay. I got my 3 yr old GSL's in April and they started laying in mid August, same as my new babies.

My 3 yr olds are the first chickens I've ever had and they started with normal size, so I guess I just assumed they all lay normal from the start! And her squawk could shatter glass . . . . . I guess she has a lot to say! I do talk to her and she stops sometimes.

I have a 22 week old Wyandotte that is very very loud!! She is standard size and started laying two weeks ago but her eggs are small, half the size of normal eggs. They have not gotten much bigger since she started. One of my standard size Ameraucana's started laying and her eggs are small too...

Thanks for all of your suggestions Ol Grey Mare! I'll keep trying . . . .

I plan on putting an external nest box on the coop. I have a hard time killing a perfectly good animal . . . .

LOL feeding them egg shells does not startle me, thank you though! I assumed that layer feed had all they needed in it. I'll feed them some cooked eggs every week and see if that helps. Any other suggestions on protein I can feed them? I thought that since they were eating the insides and...

The egg eaters are getting Dumor layer feed, and a few times a week they get cabbage and broccoli, sometimes watermelon and corn on the cob. Oh they are producing, then eating! I find the shells they leave for me. GRRRRRR!!!!

I forgot to mention my husband rigged a nest box so they would roll into a compartment they couldn't get to, and they didn't use the nest. It was the mobile kind though, out in the open. My last resort is to add an external one onto our coop that is nice and dark. Thank you all for your suggestions!

I have three 3 yr old GSL's that have been eating their eggs for about a year. I've tried everything - added oyster shells, filled eggs with mustard, hot sauce, dish soap, put wooden eggs out, nothing has worked. I have three 8 wk old chicks that will soon be integrated with them and I'm really...

I had someone ask me what is wrong with my chickens when they were all sunbathing. They do look like they are dead . . . it's so funny, especially when they are week old babies sleeping with their necks stretched out! I did think they were dead the first time I saw them like that.

My rooster is a lemon cuckoo orpington and he's the best. Do your neighbors like you and your chicks? Maybe they would not mind hearing a rooster (could be all day long . . .) Mine talks to my neighbor's roo all the time and I like it, but others may not be so fond.

Hi Berna, What are they - 3 weeks? I believe it's too early to tell but looks like they will be beautiful birds!

Ok thanks!