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Little stinkers. I didn't open them up until 10 today cuz I happened to be home. No eggs in the coop and now there are 2 more in the hole and another in the run. I'll be ordering some fake eggs to encourage them to use the nesting boxes!

We've gotten eggs every other day or so and just assumed our new hens hadn't gotten the hang of it yet or something... We only got our first egg less than 2 weeks ago. Today we stumbled across a pile in the brush with 14 eggs in a hole! Sneaky gals! any way to determine if they're all good to...

How do I figure out what's wrong with my pullet? Shes a Plymouth Rock, approx 15 weeks, and has always been kind of the runt of the group we brought in in June. She was very docile and let my 2 year old pick her up all the time, seemed just kind of a dumb bird that didn't know how to get away...

Thanks! And they're supposed to sleep on the roosts, not the nesting boxes, right? Seems like the older ones take the roosts and the new ones don't even try... We find the young ones in the nesting boxes. We might try to give them more roost options as well. We'd like to solve the hawk problem...

We're newbies located in central Massachusetts and already tons of questions! We have 6 hens that hatched in April - 2 Rhode Island reds, 2 buff orpingtons and 2 well summers. We have a rooster that hatched around the same time. Those 7 are tight and never any issues. Then we have 6 hens that...

Thanks for the insight! We're going to get a small crate tomorrow to put her back in the coop so she can be accepted. We have 6 hens that hatched it April - 2 Rhode Island reds, 2 buff orpingtons and 2 well summers. We have a rooster that hatched around the same time. Those 7 are tight and never...

New owners. We got 6 chickens in April and 6 more in June. We introduced them all just about a month ago when new ones were about 6 weeks. There was pecking and chasing but it seemed minimal and died down. We have one super docile chicken (younger ground) that is so easy going, my 2 year old...