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    Unusual low egg production

    I wanted to add that the cost of keeping my chickens if I used organic feed is $20/month per two chickens - that is giving them 6 ounces each of layer crumble a day.
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    Unusual low egg production

    Yes! I saw this and went to buy other feed because of course I was using Dumor and Producers Pride. I had started a thread about what could be wrong with my chickens that they started then stopped laying, and it wasn't daylight hours or molt or too cold, they were 7 months old. I had never seen...
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    Australorp pullet started laying then stopped

    My chickens hatched in May and are more like 30 weeks now, I've raised chickens for 20 years and I've never seen this. One chicken has never laid at all and the other laid about 9 eggs then stopped altogether. It's not the light, I live in the south, and they get enough light. Since it's just...
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    Australorp pullet started laying then stopped

    It is a mystery, it's not too hot it's not too cold, they aren't stressed. It's almost as though something shut down their hormones. In twenty years and hundreds of chickens I haven't seen this. I've had the anomalous failed ovaries, and one chicken that was egg bound, one instance of prolapse...
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    Australorp pullet started laying then stopped

    I should mention the one that had started laying has stopped for two weeks now.
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    Australorp pullet started laying then stopped

    I'm in Texas.
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    Australorp pullet started laying then stopped

    I got two Australorp chicks in May. I have them in a secure coop so they're not getting out and hiding their eggs. One of them started crouching when I came by and I knew she would ne laying soon, she laid the next day. Now she's stopped crouching and stopped laying. She laid about 7 normal...
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    Wright County Egg Farm Fire

    https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2022/06/03/wright-county-egg-farm-fire/ Here's the article. 3 million eggs a day is gone from the food supply. I'm trying to figure out how long it would take to replace the chickens and the egg production. What would it take to replace 100 of thousands of...
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