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    Egg Eater Scenario

    I hope you are right and they come around. They seem very keen on the eggs though so I hope it isn't too late even if it hasn't been very long. I tried one of the other suggestions of eggs filled with dish soap and that seemed to have an instant turn off effect on them, so I will keep at it.
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    Egg Eater Scenario

    Thank you for the idea! My hens have never had a problem with this before, and they eat REALLY well - I have had some locals actually ask me for my feeding routine because I have fat, happy hens. I do wonder if them not getting all the 'extras' last week while I was gone had some influence but I...
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    Egg Eater Scenario

    Thank you for this! I tried the mustard eggs this morning and while they all came RUNNING when they saw me put eggs in the nest, and they did peck them and bust them, they also walked away from them after they got a taste of the mustard (one or two went back to try and pull pieces of shell off...
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    Egg Eater Scenario

    Hello All, Well, what a sad situation I have. I just rebuilt my laying flock over the past year, and all my young pullets had just gotten into the groove of laying regularly and we were overflowing with eggs. Then, we went on vacation last week, and since arriving home I have been getting...
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    Eggless hen?

    Thanks for your input - I have looked for hidden nests, and one of the few times she laid I did see her over wedged into the corner looking broody, but she moved when I came into the run, but I came back later and she had laid one of her eggs in the nesting box. So maybe she is a sneaky one, but...
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    Eggless hen?

    Thanks for the glimmer of hope - luckily for her, our birds are just pets, so we keep them lifelong regardless of laying. We will just watch and see what happens. Fingers crossed, because she laid such pretty pink hued eggs those few times, they looked nice in our basket!
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    Eggless hen?

    I'm starting to wonder!
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    Eggless hen?

    Hello All, I have an almost 1 year old Speckled Sussex hen (hatched last May) who is stumping me about her egg laying. She is healthy, a good weight, normal energy, etc, but her laying is so sporadic it is almost non-existent. She laid her first egg around the same time as the others in the...
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    Stinky sand!

    I'm in the same boat - put sand in the run (fine) and under the roosts (not fine! Smells like pee even though I clean it with a little box scoop!). I see people reccomending PDZ, I can't get that where I live, but I do have stable lime for my horse stalls. It says it is safe for livestock -...
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    When is time to worry?

    Tums is a good idea!! I have easy access to a vet, and have been debating yesterday and today if I should give her a calcium injection just to be safe, but the amount of egg shells she has eaten put my mind at ease for added calcium, thankfully.
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    When is time to worry?

    Thanks for your advice - just hearing someone else say she sounds normal is a help! I debated yesterday if she was just fluffing and squatting due to the extreme colds/highs we have been having (yesterday was -27C windchill, today it went above 0C and is currently raining!), but was also taking...
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    When is time to worry?

    I have a 1.5yo light Sussex hen who typically lays about 5 times weekly. I noticed yesterday that she squatted in unusual places a handful of times, and she did not lay yesterday. Otherwise she is eating, drinking, walking around "chattering" scratching around being a normal chicken. No...
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    9 weeks and still guessing!

    For those of you who commented or followed this - at 19 weeks we got our first egg from the hen I was wondering about! Fran doesn't need to be renamed Frank! I was feeling pretty confident since I last posted and their feathers had no signs of points or darkening, but did have a slight moment of...
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    Moulting Trauma

    Thanks for that advice! I wouldn't have thought of it!
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    Moulting Trauma

    I think she has rounded a corner in the sense that the amount she is losing has slowed down and now I am just waiting for her to fluff back up again. I had read that they are really sensitive at this stage and the new feathers are easily broken, so I have been trying to be hands off, but maybe...
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