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Since she's always had issues, we give them oyster shells, ground up calcium whenever she or any one of the flock starts having any issues. As a very special treat once a month, they get cottage cheese.

I live in Oklahoma, and we've been having a lot of warm, cloudy days lately. Whenever that happens, my (now) 2 year old Golden Sex Link named Maggie Mae has issues laying. She was egg bound twice during a very long bout of snow last year where we only had densely cloud covered skies for days...

First, I live in Oklahoma. It's about 87 deg here. We have 8 hens: 2 Black Sex Links, 1 Rhode Island Red, 1 Lav Orp, 4 Gold Sex Links. About 3 and a half months ago, we moved our coop and flock to my mother's home while we got our home ready to sell. We bought a home with more property for the...

We did a lot of these things when ours were young, but we were just guessing. You've filled in some blanks for us, Thank you. Our babies are quite tame and loving. We have Golden Sex Links (as well as some other breeds), and they're very sweet and friendly. When Maggie Mae was egg bound, she...

I went to take a pic of her butt, but when I did my phone started updating. I found a pic on the internet that's very close to what she looked like. Her poop was dried, though, and she isn't walking funny or squatting like when she was eggbound...

I will. It's about dark here now so they're about to go to bed. I was planning on soaking her again tomorrow to get her clean. I'll take the pics and post them. Her comb appears to be normal, but I'll post pics of that too. Yeah, I didn't want to leave her filthy. I was afraid it may lead to...

I'm not sure if something is wrong or not, but Maggie Mae has had issues in the past so I'm hoping for some guidance. Maggie went egg bound 2x during the cold snap we had in Oklahoma a few months ago. The temps were hitting recods lows, and we had lots of snow and ice. Her but was suddenly...

Chickens are pros at finding whatever it is that pray they don't find. When we insulated our coop, we used styrofoam sheets wrapped in foil. We even duct taped the ends so the white of the styrofoam wouldn't show. The little brats peeled off the foil and the tape and feasted on the innards. We...

It depends on the size of your operation. Ours is medium sized, and it takes us about an hour to an hour and a half a day to tend it. It's not difficult, but it is somewhat time consuming. Our chickens LOVE it though, and it's very high quality protein for them in the winter - or even in the...

My husband is raising them for our chickens. He researched for weeks before starting, but he had to go to tons of different sites to get all the answers he needed. Unfortunately, no single site was as complete as it should have been, and the different sites often contradicted each other. So far...

We have more eggs than we can eat or give away right now. I have 2 black sex links that should be getting close too, but I'm not worried about them. I was only worried about Rain, my LO, because of the terrible start she had. She was in very sad shape when she got her. Then, the other chickens...

That makes sense. I've had Labs all my adult life and they do take a full 2 years. Thank you!

That makes me feel SO much better. The hatchery she came from was basically a chicken mill. It was terrible. We were just afraid her little body was too damaged to fully recover. She was in poor shape when we got her.

Your post still calmed me, but I wondered why you said they weren't a large breed because she's got the widest butt of all the chickens in my little flock. She's a pretty big girl. She looks like a feathery basketball running around the yard lol. To hear that there are others that don't lay for...

I'm pretty sure she'll never be normal lol. As long as it's normal for her to be maturing slowly, I'm ok. We're not anxious to get more eggs faster. We have 7 hens that lay 6-7 every day. We're overloaded as it is. Basically, she came from a hatchery that was the equivilant of a puppy mill, so...