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    My chickens have stopped laying (3month!!)

    Thanks for the info on here, our chickens will be three this february. I have two hybrid layers (isa brown) an australorp and a buff orpington. We used to get eggs regularly, 2-3 a day with only four hens. Then as you all said they began to molt and the days got shorter (we live in Maine) and...
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    Skinny chickens and black poop

    Will do it tonight. Thanks, we live in Maine.
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    Skinny chickens and black poop

    the blood sucking bugs makes me worry because the other day they were going nuts taking dirt baths. Like obsessive! I thought it was because they haven't been out much since Fall. Their feathers look great and they don't scratch or pick so I never thought it could be parasites. I'll look...
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    Skinny chickens and black poop

    We are coming off of a very long and cold winter in Maine. Our hen house had hanging radiant heat and usually stayed above 20 degrees and the run was sheltered by plastic. That being said, this spring we notice we have very skinny hens and black tarry poop. There is no poop on the eggs unless...
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    Bleeding Comb

    I totally agree, I know I am a little too attached to my birds and do consider them as an animal that I have taken the responsibility of caring for. I also have a camera in the coop to keep and eye on the heat lamps that are screwed into the wall so they do not fall down. I was worried about...
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    Bleeding Comb

    Thanks for your two cents, I don't see them as human babies but do see them and live animals and as I see you are in Texas and I am in Maine, I may still choose to add heat. Seeing bloody combs and frost bitten combs and feet makes me think your idea that they can handle -20 to -30 might not be...
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    Bleeding Comb

    I could not imagine not having anything in there...It was negative 8 here this morning and the inside of the coop was reading at 18. That's as cold as I'd like them to be.
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    Bleeding Comb

    I also know of that but we don't really have a choice since we have been -10 or lower for over a week and the coop was zero degrees until we added the second heat lamp. Not really any other option, we watch it very carefully.
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    Bleeding Comb

    I just noticed my buff orphington has a bloody comb as well. She has always been the outcast of the group and now I fear it will be worse. I have put her in a crate in my garage hoping she will warm up a bit and then will try and clean up the wound and put the blue kote on it. She is very...
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    When did your chickens begin laying eggs?

    I have nesting boxes but the first two eggs were just on the floor of the coop. LOL, next to the nesting boxes. Beggers can't be choosers.
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    When did your chickens begin laying eggs?

    WE GOT EGGS! :ya Woke up this morning to a medium egg and the cutest little egg I have ever seen!!!! Not using nesting boxes but at least they are not in the woods. lol
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    When did your chickens begin laying eggs?

    Thanks! I will keep an eye out...can't wait.
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    When did your chickens begin laying eggs?

    I'm wondering the same thing about when eggs will start? I have four hens (three ISA Browns & 1 Australorp) that are 17 weeks old and one Buff Orpington that is 20+ weeks and we have not gotten any eggs. When can I expect them? Been leaving them in the pen area until 11 or 12 and then they...
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    Two weeks and my hens are still bullying new hen

    Okay the enclosure pen is 20 by 20 and the coop (structure within the enclosed area) is 8 by 5 with a 4x5 hen house that has three nesting boxes. When we are not home they are in the 20X20 pen and when we are home they roam around the yard free range. The entire first week whenever they were...
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    Two weeks and my hens are still bullying new hen

    Excellent thought, we wondered the same thing but I"m told our coop can house 8-10 chickens so I don't think that is the problem. :(
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