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hi- I have six new hens (pullets) and three started laying eggs. I only saw one actually lay so I knew she was laying. Who is laying? While in their coop feeding them breakfast today I remembered my older flock would “lay down “ when I went to pet them once they started laying. Sure enough I...

Two days in a row I have found this organic material in the nesting box. Looks like little pieces of boiled chicken. Yesterday it was covered with ants today it was not. Do hens expel anything when they stop laying? My girls are 2.5 years old and only two out of four are laying. What could it...

One of my hens is laying eggs with a darker brown tip. See picture. Also the outer surface of the egg feels like sand paper. Should I be concerned?

My girls are 18 months old and lay consistently 4-6 eggs a day. I have six hens. Yesterday my Plymouth Rock laid a mini egg. Any ideas on what happened? Thanks

This is from my game cam over the holidays. The girls are locked in the coop so they are safe. The run has double layers of hardware cloth on the sides and one layer is buried 12 inches in the soil with a concrete footing. The top where the bob cat is walking is plastic roofing. They seem...

I have six hens that were born in March 2015. They have laying almost every day and last week my Americauna Easter egged stopped laying all together. She looks like she is losing the little feathers around her ears. Is this a start of a molt or something else. Thanks in advance.

I brought my food into the coop and hung it from the rafters because of the rain. Does moving the location of their food cause any problems? The usually all run out of the coop to the feeder in the morning when I open the coop door. They seemed confused this morning when the feeder was not in...