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Thank you so much for the quick responses. We are really at a loss. I had all our spring chicks on chick starter until they were 16-18 weeks old. Then I started them on layer feed. The problem is that we have another hen that is the same age who also has not yet layed an egg yet. She does...

This morning, our little boy opened the door to let the chickens out (as he does every morning after he holds them) and he found his favorite hen dead under the roost. She had thrush about 5 weeks ago and we treated it with apple cider vinegar. She cleared up in a few days and seemed fine...

My 6 month old Buff Orp. "Charlie" decided to roost in the tree above our coop 2 nights ago. We searched and searched for her and finally closed the coop doors. We kept looking until 11 pm. I stayed awake all night worrying about that little chicken...found her the next morning happy as could...

Thank you. Great idea.

Hey, redsox...I'm from ks too!

Poor Mama. We had a young rooster (6 mo)) and just gave him away to a country farm. My hen went broody the day after he left and has been sitting on her 1 egg for 5 days. I thought there could have been a chance the eh was fertilized. I candled the egg and saw no sign of an embryo. What is the...