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    Free range hens not laying

    My main concern is the girls getting egg bound
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    Free range hens not laying

    We mowed like 2 weeks ago, same with cleaning the coop out super well.
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    Free range hens not laying

    Hello folks!! I have 12 hens and I'm getting 3 eggs a day. We cleaned their coop really well, purchased another feeder, purchased a much larger waterer. That seemed to increase the egg count to 5 eggs but now back down to 1. I have several hens I havent seen lay in 1.5 weeks and I'm concerned...
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    Broody or sick?

    So she never did anything else weird after that. She's out and about with the other hens. I suspect she's one I'll have to keep my eyes on though for going broody.
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    Hello! Yes, I did take it. I am very much an amateur photographer but I absolutely love...

    Hello! Yes, I did take it. I am very much an amateur photographer but I absolutely love photographing animals. That's my rooster, Hickory, and Beverly Goldbird (Beverly Goldberg from the show The Goldbergs)
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    Broody or sick?

    This hen is only like 6 or 7 months old. Is it bad to let her go broody this young?
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    Broody or sick?

    When I opened the coop this morning one of my Australorps stayed behind on the roost. I didn't really think too much of it right away. Now she's in one of 2 nesting boxes, and another hen was crammed inside and actively laying an egg. She obviously wasn't happy about it. Another hen walked up...
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    North Texas Breeders?

    I did not! I did find a facebook page for Oklahoma breeders though, so I figured a 1-2 hou or drive wouldn't be too horrible
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    Could a rooster pretend to be a hen?

    I have one hen, about 5 months old. It's a bearded EE. This bird shows no signs of tail or saddle feathers, but is always solitary from the rest of the flock. (1 rooster, 11 hens). This bird chases off smaller birds, and the rooster is always trying to fight it. Is this bird just werid or could...
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    1 hen separates herself from the flock

    Shes very odd in that she chases squirrels and smaller birds. She has no indication that she is a late blooming rooster. Shes just werid.
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    1 hen separates herself from the flock

    This hen does not appear to be I'll, or injured. Shes about 30 weeks old. She just keeps to herself. Shes always like 30 feet away from the rest of the flock. Flock of 12 hens and 1 rooster. What gives?
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    Chickens wont stop drinking leach field water!!

    Think the chickens will decimate the mint?
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    Chickens wont stop drinking leach field water!!

    It is perforated pvc pipe bedded in drain rock 2' deep.
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    Chickens wont stop drinking leach field water!!

    Yeah I'm going to put like 9" and put some type of flower bed or shrubs there to help soak up the water. In the summer it's not a problem because its Texas and it gets so dry the ground cracks.
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    Chickens wont stop drinking leach field water!!

    It am going to do about another foot then. I know we buried it 2' deep. Our water table is so high that when we were building our chicken coop the holes we dug filled up with water. It is no where near a septic line or a water line. Just live really close to a lake.
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