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    Three chickens, no eggs for two months

    Thanks to you both! Probably worth mentioning that I live in Southern CA so pretty mild weather. I don't think there's predators hanging around but we did just deal with a bunch of rats that were digging into the coop to get the feed. I've been feeding them daily now. Those rats chewed through...
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    Three chickens, no eggs for two months

    I have three hens that are about 1.5 yrs old. A barred rock, cream legbar, and a silver laced wyandotte. The barred rock has been the best and most consistent layer, the wyandotte is broody every six-8 weeks like clockwork, and the legbar lays a few times a week as long as everything is cool in...
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    Broody every 6 weeks. Ugh

    Darn it, Sourland! That's not what I wanted to hear. Ho hum, I was thinking we might have to find an actual farm for her to live on with a rooster and chicks to hatch. Not quite sure how to find that. No room in my suburban farm for more than four or five unless I'm going to raise them for...
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    Broody every 6 weeks. Ugh

    I have a wyandotte that seems to be broody about every 6 weeks. It's so frustrating. She's about 16 months old and didn't start laying until around a year old. The pattern is that she goes broody, we put her in a separate coop with a perch and wire bottom, it takes a week to ten days until she...
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