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    Introducing new hen to flock stops her lay?

    When do they usually start up again then? She came together with a little Polish, so she's not totally alone, and she definitely can defend herself against all my other chickens...overall, I'm quite pleased with how they're all getting on.
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    Introducing new hen to flock stops her lay?

    I bought a less-than-a-year-old black copper maran a few weeks ago, and she was laying beautiful chocolate colored eggs for the first week until I stopped segregating her from my existing flock and put her in the same coop with them. They free-range in a large fenced in area all day, but since...
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    Rooster Pecking One Hen almost to Death

    Our sebright seemed just fine, and didn't look like it was sick at all. It was, however, at the bottom of the pecking order, and knew it. When I went down to feed kitchen scraps every day, she would hop onto the bench with me to stay away from the other chickens, but no one really bothered her...
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    Rooster Pecking One Hen almost to Death

    Sadly, she just passed on...
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    Rooster Pecking One Hen almost to Death

    Hi everyone, New on this forum. I have 5 chickens,1 which is a silkie rooster. He is still fairly young, and just started crowing two months ago. Originally we thought he was a hen until he started crowing and displaying some other rooster characteristics, but I had no problem with him...
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