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    Healthy Easter Egger Stopped Laying

    Do the breaks tend to last? It would be nice if she started laying again. Right now she's my free loader, lol. The other hens I got from this guy still let.
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    Healthy Easter Egger Stopped Laying

    She's only been free ranging for a couple of weeks. She wasn't laying for a few months before that when she was always in the coop. Now she goes to my wheel barrow that I keep hay in and lays for a few minutes and starts her "egg song" as if she has laid.
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    Healthy Easter Egger Stopped Laying

    I offer rumor layer pellets, once or twice a week cooked oats with wild bird feed. She's completely free range as I mentioned above and doesn't eat very much of the food offered but does eat some at times.
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    Healthy Easter Egger Stopped Laying

    Last year about September my husband brought home four hens that a work acquaintance gave to him. He was told they were 18 months old and that because of family illness he just couldn't keep them anymore. We figure they are at least two from conversations my husband had with the work...
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    South Carolina Egg Selling Laws

    Thanks for this!
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    Feeding chickens and sheep together - Copper sulfate free feed

    I have rescued some sheep. Well one, the ewe, was a rescue and the other is a runt ram given to me by a kind sheep farmer for her company. The ewe has an injured leg so I'm keeping her in the chicken yard for now because it's smaller and gives her room to walk and roam a little yet keeps her...
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    Are these nesting boxes adequate?

    oh, ok. I saw on another thread here that scratch was good for fat to keep the meat a little more moist so it was good to add it in at times. I like to keep a little fat on my meat from the stores for that reason. I haven't been feeding the game bird feed yet because I didn't expect to eat them...
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    Are these nesting boxes adequate?

    Thanks!
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    Are these nesting boxes adequate?

    Thanks! My new girls are about 1 year old so they'll probably start to lay less than they were for the previous owners. They started laying for us the day after we started letting them out of the small coop after their introduction period. They were all very happy for about a week, obviously...
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    Are these nesting boxes adequate?

    Thank you for your help!
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    Are these nesting boxes adequate?

    I received four new adult hens from a friend who couldn't take care of them anymore. I slowly introduced them and everything was fine. After about a week my roosters started acting like a bunch of turds and would gang up on the new hens and umm...you know. My young roosters obviously didn't...
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    New chicken aggression

    These four have always been together. I'm thinking after my husband explained the coop they were in if they were bored. It was apparently small and they were fed pellets which I've read can lead to boredom. Have you experienced this?
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    New chicken aggression

    Today we got four more chickens from a friend, one americaun, one red sex link, one RIR, and black one that i dont know the breed of (yet). I already have 24 chickens, 15 red sex links and 9 orpingtons. The problem is with the four i just got. The others pick at the americauna so bad that they...
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    Down feathers showing through new feathers

    Thank you guys for your help! I feel much more comfy with her feathers now.
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    Down feathers showing through new feathers

    It's pretty hot where we are. We're I. The 90's. All the other hens have lost most of theirs.
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