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Oh and I am getting a Lavender Orpington as well. I got one a couple years ago, but lost her at 15 weeks. Still the hardest loss I've had with my chickens. I already have a cochin, white. She is beautiful! Be prepared for the broodiness, otherwise she is a good layer.

I just ordered 3 more also arriving in late June! I ordered them because I thought I was losing one of my girls who thankfully recovered. I have time to cancel, but jeez I want those little chicks!!! I really don't need more chickens! Can 3 more really hurt? Can you tell I am going to have a...

"Chicklover56" - That's my logic too!

I started with 4, now have 6 and will have 9. I am only going to add 3 because I think adding 3 at a time is easier when blending the flock. I put my foot down on 3!!! Under 10 isn't that bad? And my older girl is still laying pretty well. I do have two who have some egg "issues" and aren't...

I am putting it straight out there.... I am looking for approval of my chicken addition. I currently have 6 hens ranging from 2 - 6 years old. I thought I was losing one about a week ago and decided to order 3 chicks. Thankfully, my girl recovered just fine (YAY) and I am expecting the chicks in...

I'm only giving you my experience as reference and your situation could be very different with a hopefully a different outcome. I had a two year old RIR who stopped laying rather suddenly. She acted completely normal, would even go into the nest box and come out in a normal amount of time...

No, no signs of molt. Like I said, she acts completely normal. Maybe she's just gearing up to have a very productive fall and winter. Nothing much I can do, but hope. She seems happy and healthy, so that's most important.

Anybody? No ideas? :-(

I have four hens all raised together and one, a production red, has stopped laying. She is not broody, in that she isn't spending any unusual time in the nest box or anywhere else. She acts completely fine. She still goes regularly to the nest box, sits for a normal amount of time, many times...

"Super Max" - although a colorful and stylized prison, the inmates are given lots and lots of yard time and the name really refers more to those we want out than those we are keeping in. This thing is locked-down, the result of an accomplished carpenter with an obsessive worrier.

Honestly, you can get absolutely the best advice in the world here, but until you actually see the first egg come from a chicken that you have worried about being male - you won't truly be satisfied with the answer. (I am speaking from personal experience, in case there is any wonder.) It would...

I just recently went through this, but only with one of my four. What I did was before they go in the hen house in the late afternoon, I put a piece of wood to block the entrance to the nesting box. Then before I locked them down tight for the night, I pulled the wood out so it wouldn't be in...

YIPPEE!!!!!!!!! Congrats! It is ALWAYS exciting to get the 1st egg!

I know there was no way I was alone on this one! I had even thought ahead by attaching that washer to the string to the latch - but didn't think about the knot coming on done. Should have consulted a boyscout! There literally was no way out other than busting the door out or waiting for...

I'm not sure I am posting this in the right spot, but I have a story that I know really only "chicken people" will relate to... if there were only a video camera on my experience. So, the other morning I woke at 7:15 to the sound of one of my pullets doing the "egg song" and remembered I had...

I really am just trying to ease your mind and not insult you. I think if your pullet is still acting fine after all this time, most likely she is just that - fine. The pullet I have, Winnie, still hasn't laid although all of the other 3 still are. If she were egg bound she would have not...

I am experiencing a similar problem, but with a hopefully helpful background. I too have 4 pullets all hatched this last spring. My normally best layer, a production red has not produced an egg for about 4 or 5 days now which is highly unusual. Here's the thing, about a month and half ago I...

She was the last to succumb to squatting - but now does it even when I walk up to her. I just wish she'd lay already - but as the time goes, she may go into molting before she does this season. She has always been my problem child - Lulu the lunatic! Actually her neurotic behavior is growing on...

So I have 4 pullets - three have started laying and of course the one I have worried the most about being male has not. S(he) is just 23 wks this week and to the best of my knowlegde is sex-linked which should cause me to have no concern about her gender. Although a well-educated scientist, I am...

I just saw the same thing a few days ago, although it was in my kitchen sink because my chicken couldn't get it (them) out and was getting pretty distressed. After a 15 min warm bath - out came those two joined eggs with soft shells. I thought it fortunate that she didn't lay for a couple days...