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    one chicken lays her egg on the floor everyday

    I do not know if this will help but we use saw-dust in their sleeping area, we buy it from our local pet and feed store. We use nesting straw in the nesting boxes which we also get from the store. We also placed plastic 1 egg in each of the nests, but once they started laying we took...
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    How to Break a Broody Hen

    OK reading this thread shows me that we did the right thing. Here is our answer to a broody hen. There is water and feed for the broody hen we let her out just before dusk when they head up into the coop for the night and we block off the nesting boxes so they can't try to nest at night. Now...
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    THE BEGINNING!

    QUESTION :- Do broody hens stop laying ? And if so do they get over it and start laying again ? Thankyou.
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    THE BEGINNING!

    Well here is the UPDATE! (05/09/2014) Well we still have 6 Silkies ...3 white 2 black and 1 grey. Three are laying eggs nearly every day. Angel , Maggy , Molly (white) Shirley , Cilla (black) and Lizzie (the grey) The 5 happy hens ... And Lizzie the Broody...
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    one chicken lays her egg on the floor everyday

    Ummm we have silkies 6 of them 2 are laying , they have just started laying for the first time and one of them is laying on the floor of the coop which has 2 nesting boxes. I put 2 nesting boxes in the run which are under cover but are still in the open. Do they need some more privacy as they...
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    THE BEGINNING!

    After a bad start with out flock and loosing 3 chickens , which only left us with 4. Today we found 2 eggs in the nesting box. Our first pair of silkie eggs , very small eggs. lol! These are extra large eggs from the supermarket next to our 2 silkie eggs.
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    THE BEGINNING!

    Thankyou. We have used BYC a lot since we join up and have found out much about chickens and their behavior. BYC has been a great help in supplying information about what was affecting our flock and remedies to help them. We can't thank the members that supplied help and support.
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    THE BEGINNING!

    We are down to 4 now . Hope it ends now , the remaining chooks look more active and I hope are going to keep going.
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    Sick Silkies

    Thanks again for the input about our sick silkies. We lost another one and only have 4 left. I hope these are OK now they look better , much stronger and more active.
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    Sick Silkies

    No nasal discharge ? Just limping and lethargic. Just dose nothing hardly at all.
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    Sick Silkies

    New faltpack coop. Only had them for a few weeks now. Supposed to be 16 to 18 weeks old. The one that died has gone so can not check to see what she died from. But the one that's sick is like her sister we think , and she is kinda doing the same things. Camilla is limping and just sits there...
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    Sick Silkies

    Looking for answers. We are new to having backyard chickens and we got 6 silkie bantams well 7 actually. One died within a week and a half???? It just got very lethargic was eating but only small amounts then just would sit there , head tucked in over her shoulders like she was have a sleep...
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    Please help

    Well if its prize chook a vet might be a good idea.
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    THE BEGINNING!

    Well I have some sad news and some good news. We lost Ethel and had to replace her with Angel a white Silkie. We have also coated the Coop with Weather Protection Varnish and an Aussie flag. lol! The new flock 3 White and 3 Grey. An Aussie Home. So hopefully all is going to go well...
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    post your chicken coop pictures here!

    God dam some of these Coops are not just chicken coops they are mansions. Two story with from doors and well just to far out! We just got a flat-pack online and put it together.
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