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    UPDATE - now almost 6 weeks after getting new laying hens, but they are still not laying!

    My little bantam that hasn't laid since March has no signs of molting, she is as full as can be with feathers, her back end is nice a fluffy and full. She looks great, just doesn't lay eggs. Like I've mentioned, I am not worried about her, she's healthy, happy, etc. She does get curious when one...
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    UPDATE - now almost 6 weeks after getting new laying hens, but they are still not laying!

    Oh, no, the bantam who hasn't laid an egg since March is over a year old. She turned 1 the end of July. She was laying on a fairly regular basis and she was the only one who went broody more than once. In March was the last time she went broody, got her over that, went through a mini molt but...
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    UPDATE - now almost 6 weeks after getting new laying hens, but they are still not laying!

    I live in California and our weather has been up and down lately again. At night the low 60's during the day mid 80's. Over the last two weeks we have averaged one egg a day from my 5 older hens. They just turned a year the end of July. One hasn't laid an egg since March when she first went...
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    Chicken Stopped Laying and Losing Feathers

    My Americana was the 2nd or 3rd to molt. She lays more of a bluish egg. The tan laying hen was the fist to molt but still hasn't laid an egg. I do have a light in their house that comes on about 5:30. Because there are so many wild free ranging chickens my girls stay in their enclosure. I...
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    Chicken Stopped Laying and Losing Feathers

    It's not silly. I had a baby that I tried to save for three days. I bawled my eyes out. Then I had one with a severe crooked beak that I had to have put down and again I bawled. I get so attached. Even to the ones that aren't in my possession, they run free in my back yard. There are 23 new...
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    Chicken Stopped Laying and Losing Feathers

    Oh, I'm so sorry for your loss. Even though they are chickens we get attached to the silly things and it's still hard to lose one. My little bantam has still not laid an egg (the last one being maybe in March), but, she is acting perfecting normal. I am beginning to think she dried up in there...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    I have a Penny also. She's an americauna. Lays bluish green eggs, the blue is more dominant though. Pretty eggs.
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    Chicken Stopped Laying and Losing Feathers

    I've given them cabbage but I will hang it higher. It's their birthday week so I got them a special treat block. I think I will get a suet block holder and put the treat in it and hang it up. I will be home all next week. I am actually thinking of setting up my video camera to record which ones...
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    Chicken Stopped Laying and Losing Feathers

    Okay, thank you cchin, at least they aren't doing this when it's colder. Today there were no eggs, not sure if it's the heat or molting. They do seem to be picking on each other more too. I may end up having to put blinders on them because it's more than one doing it now. One of them even pecks...
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    Could significant shade decrease egg production?

    Yep, the back ends of two of mine looked like that. One is actually getting new tail feathers. Mine are only a year old except for Star- she is almost 4 months old but she isn't in the run with the others. She is under the same roof because we used about two feet of the run as an area for her...
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    Chicken Stopped Laying and Losing Feathers

    I have 5 hens: one is a bantam (came from the wild neighborhood chickens), an americauna, three that are supposedly maran's,(not sure if spelled right two are black and one looks more like a rhode island red. I also have a 6th one that was also from the neighborhood chickens, she is almost 4...
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    Could significant shade decrease egg production?

    Has anyone experienced one that has totally quit laying? I have a bantam that hasn't laid an egg since around March or April. She went broody for the second or third time, but until this last time she at least started laying again. This time she hasn't. She also lost her tail feathers (not sure...
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    Chickens not laying?

    I have 5 that are almost a year old. One of them came from the neighborhood chickens (found it at 3 days old). She went broody on me a few months ago (this is the second time) and has not laid an egg since. She is the only one in the little flock that lays a tan colored egg so I know she isn't...
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    Clavamox source!

    I have a hen that is on Clavomax right now. I took her to the vet for breathing issues, found she had also swallowed a washer and has roundworms. Because the vet was not sure what was causing the breathing issues she put her on the antibiotic. All 6 of my girls are being treated for worms...
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    Whats the weirdest thing your chickens have eaten or tried to eat??

    I discovered on Monday (6-15-15) that one of my hens ate a washer. Her breathing has been raspy since Sunday. I took her to the vet and that is how I know she swallowed a washer. She also has worms. The washer could be the reason for the raspy breathing due to Zinc toxicity, if that's the case...
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