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4/17/12 at 6:59am

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i got 20 week old RIR. she sits in the nest box and yelling for 2 hours but no egg. I got some already started laying, but never see this one. Is she an egg bound? Anybody know why she screams like that?

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4/17/12 at 9:40am

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I have one like that too. Sits for 2 hours being very vocal, then she gets off the nest and 5 minutes later lays an egg in the run on the ground, in some poop if she can swing it. Silly chicken! I think they just have to get used to laying and some of them just get upset by the experience, I guess. Mine are about 7 months old now and I think they are finally all laying now.

16 hens own me. 3 Black Australorps, 3 Dominiques, 2 Golden Laced Wyandottes, 3 Welsummers, 3 golden comets, 1 New Hampshire Red and 1 Ameraucana.

Chicken Math in action -- sell three, buy seven -- build another coop - harvest two, order 12. New chicks arriving in May 2013! 6 Ameraucana's and 6 Anconas.

16 hens own me. 3 Black Australorps, 3 Dominiques, 2 Golden Laced Wyandottes, 3 Welsummers, 3 golden comets, 1 New Hampshire Red and 1 Ameraucana.

Chicken Math in action -- sell three, buy seven -- build another coop - harvest two, order 12. New chicks arriving in May 2013! 6 Ameraucana's and 6 Anconas.

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4/17/12 at 8:05pm

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