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    Flock hasn't laid in 6 months

    Thank you for these suggestions. This started in the US in Spring, and has gone through the autumn here, now. I will try penning the rooster. I believe they have a lot to eat, but again, I'm new at this. There is food lying around for them in a few places. I have very recently increased the...
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    Flock hasn't laid in 6 months

    They weren't even 2.5 years old, though. Only 2yo when this began. And it happened to all of them, all at once. Diet is a mix of lots of things: oyster shell. Chicken wheat. Scratch corn. Layer. Black sunflower seed. Kitchen scraps. Some other 3-item feed. Tons of bugs etc in the yard in summer...
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    Flock hasn't laid in 6 months

    One egg every several days, as I mentioned. Mix of birds: 2 Easter Eggers. One Buff Orpington. I don't know what the 4th is.... I recently opened the coop to find 2 birds sitting in boxes. Yet later found I didn't get eggs from either of them. (New hay and no evidence eggs had been eaten.)...
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    Flock hasn't laid in 6 months

    Hi - I'm stumped and hoping you smart people can help. I'm a first-time chicken owner. I live in rural place. 4 hens and a rooster roam the big open yard area. They're all 2.5 years old. About 6 months ago, they essentially stopped laying. For past 6 months I get about 1 egg a week -- from ALL...
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