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    Can a hen be depressed?

    Thank you. I feel so bad for her.
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    Can a hen be depressed?

    I had my beautiful white hen in a pen adjacent to my main run with her 3 babies who were around a month old. A hawk swooped down and killed two and took the other. The rooster ran in the coop with the other ladies instead of trying to help. I picked her up and I said it’s ok Blanche, you tried...
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    Please help me understand

    No mites or lice and no hidden nests. No molting. There is ten hens in an enclosed run and coop big enough to hold 40 hens (I’ve had that many before and roosted comfortably). 3 are older so I don’t expect any eggs out of them but the rest are young still. They love there rooster and follow him...
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    Please help me understand

    I crush up there egg shells after I’ve used them and put those in there feed also. My youngest hen is around 9 months old and the oldest will be 3 this year. I only keep three of the original girls that will be 3 this year to keep everyone in check. There my lead girls so don’t matter to me if...
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    Please help me understand

    Nobody has started moulting yet. Everybody seems happy. There’s no fighting or picking on each other. I have a young leghorn in another pen who was starting to crow and he’s even stopped. It seems like my chickens are broken.
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    Please help me understand

    Protein is either 18 or 19 percent. It’s been a while since I looked at that. I buy the same feed from a feed store. There let out every morning at 11 am after a trough full of feed is given. I had around 15 hens now I have 10 after downsizing. Still no eggs. They were laying so good back in June.
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    Please help me understand

    They get plenty to eat. I make sure there fed good.
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    Please help me understand

    I feed layer feed then turn on hen out to free range
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    My rooster is growling and won’t get out of the egg laying box! The entire flock is going crazy!

    lol I need your rooster to whip my girls in shape. They decided it’s break time for the last month and half.
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    Please help me understand

    No hidden nests. That’s what I thought so I kept them penned up for the last couple weeks and still no eggs.
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    Please help me understand

    No everything is the same as it’s always been. Same coop same run. I let them out to free range. Same dogs we always had. I live back in the hills so plenty to eat. I don’t understand why they stop laying here but lay after I sell them. Could elevation affect chickens? But I don’t see how since...
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    Please help me understand

    My hens were laying great then stopped and haven’t laid no eggs in the last 2 months so I sold a bunch of them. A few days later I talked to the buyer and he said there was all kinds of eggs from them. He feeds the same thing I do. I free range. This happened once before to and they said the...
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    Comment by 'Harris14' in article '~Recommended Chicken Apps~'

    I use egg hatching manager. It keeps track of the days left and how many eggs in the incubator.
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    Did cows kill my birds?

    It’s been a while and the poults are all dead and gone. But it just aggravated me that all these babies died and I don’t know why. I’ve raised them before in the same pen with the same feed and so on. I don’t know what happened so I’m scared to get any more turkeys now.
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    Did cows kill my birds?

    Yes turkey poults. They were around 9 weeks old. Fully feathered. They usually ate the feed before the rain. I never feed while it’s raining. They never had any respiratory symptoms. They would be fine then one would start to stumble over itself. Then about 2 days later we would go out and it...
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