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    Over 2 Weeks and no eggs

    Ok. Part of we wonders what effect sleeping with a dead hen had on them. Was it traumatic for them? They were all from the same flock originally and got on quite well. I'm also worried about the new ones. Only one egg all week and that was only after we locked out the RIR for a few...
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    Over 2 Weeks and no eggs

    Thanks. I'm hoping that is the case. I even went as far as to build a new set of laying boxes for the new hens, hoping they can have their own place. Only two of the new girls are old enough to lay. I did get one egg out of one of them after I locked our RIR out of the pen so she could...
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    Over 2 Weeks and no eggs

    So about 2 1/2 weeks ago one of my three original hens died. She hadn't laid eggs in about 2 weeks and we assume that she got bound up. I'm new at all of this so who knows. Since then, our other two hens have quit laying. They laid pretty regularly for the first month or so we've had them...
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    No Eggs in 8 days

    I'm having the the same problem with the Easter Egger we recently got. Eggs every day or so for the first week or two, now nothing for the last 10 plus days. I miss seeing the blue eggs :(
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    Hello from Downtown Indianapolis!

    I'm new to this whole chicken thing but I am absolutely hooked. Over the winter I finally convinced my wife to let me tear down the swing set in the backyard, but to do so I promised to build her a chicken coop which she had been asking about for the last year or so. So being a good husband...
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