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    Why aren’t my chickens laying?

    We move the older flocks runn every month or so. I haven’t found anywhere where they could be laying. At one point we had an opossum that would sneak in and eat their eggs but the moment we caught him we killed him. Do you think there could be more eating their eggs?
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    Why aren’t my chickens laying?

    We hatched them in April. We have a runn we keep them in that we move every few days-week. They lay consistently 1-2 eggs a day.
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    Why aren’t my chickens laying?

    I do but, this has been going on for several months. We’ve just gotten to the point where we’d like to know if it’s worth keeping them when they don’t lay.
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    Why aren’t my chickens laying?

    That makes sense. I believe they are at least at the two year mark. One flock we don’t know because it was given to us and the other we’ve had for about two years.
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    Why aren’t my chickens laying?

    That would make sense but it has been an issue for several months now. How soon do they stop laying?
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    Why aren’t my chickens laying?

    My flocks stoped laying and I’m not sure why. We feed them daily with oyster shells in their feed. They always have water. There’s nothing getting in and hurting them and the rooster we have with them doesn’t hurt them enough for it to stop egg production. They used to lay constantly now we...
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    What do you do with a chick that has water belly?

    She’s four weeks and not quite big enough. We bought them for meat but this guy isn’t big enough to get any meat out of. I just want to know if I should cull her before the others. Would her meat still be good if she got big enough? This is my first chick with water belly.
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    What do you do with a chick that has water belly?

    He is four weeks old. His belly is blown up and his crop is big. He is smaller than all the chicks we bought so we started to get worried. His poop looks fine and doesn’t seem runny but he had all the other symptoms of water belly.
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    What do you do with a chick that has water belly?

    I have a broiler chick that appears to have water belly. Everywhere I’ve looked says it isn’t curable but you can drain it to make them comfortable but what happens after that? Does it just continually come back? Should we just cull her? What would be the most humane option? We are not against...
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    Is this sour crop?

    Their crops are bulging. We’ve had them for about one week and we are currently feeding all of them chick crumble. They are all acting completely normal and we’ve only just now seen this even though nearly every day we have to clean their bedding. I’ll look at those links and see if they provide...
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    Is this sour crop?

    My family recently got about 36 meat chicks. We’ve kept them in a big water trouph as a brooder with wood chips and water. Today we discovered a growth on one of the chicks and looking around at the rest we found it on a lot of the other ones as well. I did some research and it sounds like they...
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    Ended 2025 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!

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    Ended 2025 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!

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    Ended 2025 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!

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    What should I do with my goose?

    It is too far away. I’ll look into something like that!! There a rescue nearby and we are going to call and see it will take her. They have a few geese there so hopefully they can.🤞
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