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    My chickens still are not laying.

    I have looked for alternative laying areas and I don't see any. I am pretty sure they are not laying at all as I have tested the hens. On cackle hatchery they say the way to know if they are laying is to feel around and there should be a bone that the egg must pass through. If they are laying...
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    My chickens still are not laying.

    My chickens (Production Red, Buff Orpington, Bard Rock, and various sex links) have not been laying well all year and it is getting annoying. When the year first started off we had so many eggs we didn't know what to do with them all. I have 70 hens and they would easily give me 3-4 dozen a...
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    Chickens will never lay.

    Sorry I haven't replied in a long time. My chickens decided to make me look crazy by laying an egg in one of the nest boxes. It is kind of a YESSSSS moment and a felling stupid with the timing. But I haven't gotten another egg yet. It is two days after the first one. I must admit that one...
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    Chickens will never lay.

    I hatched some production reds on Feb, 5, 2013 and have been fighting to get them to lay to this day. I fed them chick starter for 3 months after they hatched and transitioned to 16% protein sweet feed for the next 6 months. I switched them over to layer pellet as they were not laying. I...
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    Looking to grow my own grain. What should i grow for my chickens.

    I have been looking into planting different grains. Some things i have been wondering about is food value and yield. Also i want the option to eat some of it if i like. After all im a chicken. I have tried wheat,oats,corn,and buckwheat and it all failed miserably. (Except for the...
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    my chickens are 4 months past the laying date and no eggs

    Thanks for your reply I have both roosters and hens of this breed do to i hatched them myself. I cant tell a hen egg from a rooster egg I sepparated the roos into a different pen becuase the roos dont need layer pellet. The hens are free range as in they can wonder a fairly large run...
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    my chickens are 4 months past the laying date and no eggs

    These chickens are production reds. I hatched them in Feb. So that would make them around 9 months (More or less) I have been feeding them as much grain as they can eat to try to get them to start. It is 16% protien layer pellet and i have just upped them to 20% I am starting to wonder...
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    My baby turkeys are having trouble. Wont eat their food.

    Yes all my turkeys were stated on chick starter as they were all raised with chicks. I will offer them some bugs and see what they do. It is hard to resist a giant juicy grasshopper.
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    My baby turkeys are having trouble. Wont eat their food.

    They are 2 months and up I have 4 that are 1 month and they are royal palm(They are getting chick starter grower as they were raised with chicks). The rest were getting scratch grain and all the free range they want. So what you are saying is they don't like the food? It is not that they...
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    My baby turkeys are having trouble. Wont eat their food.

    I have been losing turkeys to this and i need to find out how to stop it. I feed them scratch grains plus whatever free range they want. I didn't give them much grain at first but i have been upping there food to the point were it is ridiculous trying to feed them. Most of the turkeys...
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    My chicken ate so much he is having trouble breathing

    He didn't make it sadly. He died shortly after i posted the thread. Didn't get to him soon enough i guess. However if anyone has more ideas feel free to post them. This might happen again someday and it would be good to know what to do in the future. Thanks for your help.
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    My chicken ate so much he is having trouble breathing

    It is one of my buff orpingtons. He ate so much that he fell over and is gasping for air. His craw is packed tight. I ate scratch grains or poultry grains depending on what they call it. Is there any way i can dissolve what is in his craw and give him relief? What do you suggest?
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    I want to learn how to identify diseases myself. Were do i start.

    Wow thank you that was very interesting reading. Thanks for responding so fast as well :) Please keep it up this is very interesting to me :) Im sure there are books out there that colledge students use to learn how get in to this subject. Does anyone happen to know what they would call...
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    I want to learn how to identify diseases myself. Were do i start.

    Hi I have hundreds of chickens and turkeys and every now and then one dies for no apparent reason. Meaning no signs of predation or disease just dead. However we all know they don't just die for no reason. I cant go to the vet every time so he can send it to the lab so how do i become the...
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    Month old baby not felling good. Is there somthing major wrong?

    At the moment all i have is chick feed or scratch grain. If he needs extra protein i think i could get him some. Just wondering but what do you think is wrong with him? Normally i think of yogurt as something to help with digestion so do you think he has an upset stomach? What does the...
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