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After two weeks, for whatever reason, she decided to lay eggs again. Caught her in the nest this morning, a fake egg nest she'd never used before, and she dropped a kinda misshapen, oblong sorta egg. Dont care though, she's apparently ok and back to earnin' her keep.

With no idea she could even get out, one of my two Lakenvelder hens got out of the run somehow. I found her in the backyard next door and i nearly had her until my dogs rounded the corner and spooked her. She flew over my shoulder, then hi-tailed it down the fence line to the back of the...

A while back I bought a Barred Rock and a RI Red, both hens one year old and solid layers. Both never missed a beat, especially the BR, and pretty much an egg a day that started within two hours of moving in. They obviously had no issues with the move, but ive had two ten month old...

15 month old RI Red not quite herself. Has been a VERY reliable layer, and with her Barred Rock hen best friend, she rules the roost. Last week to ten days though, she eats and drinks and she looks ok, but she stopped laying, and shes a little slower getting around the run, and no longer runs...

Valuable lessons learned! I knew better than to have hay in the run area, and knew EVEN better than to allow kids freedom in and out of the coop and run. As far as hay goes, my rabbit hay is stored with everything else near the coop, and a bunch of that got scattered about the run's dry dirt...

Another thread got me to thinking. Like grit, feed, and scratch (combined with regular feeders), I liberally sprinkle fairly fine grade oyster shell about the run and it seems to be ok. A buddy of mine piles it in one corner. Which way is best, or is there another way all together?

Back when he had birds, my brother in law put a 2x4 roost in his run area, and his birds started roosting there at night and wouldn't go back in their coop. I thought about putting something in my run too, just to give em something to do, but i want em to go in at night to roost, and i dont...