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    The highest value treats?

    I've treated my hens to cantaloupe rinds after I ate my part but they really prefer the seeds in the middle. In winter grow some Kale for giving them greens.
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    2 year old hen now barren - is this a new normal?

    Mine that died at one year with the same symptoms as Amelia's was a Golden Laced Wyandotte. My current hen who is two and has stopped laying after that strange experience is a Brown Leghorn. Was supposed to be Americana, then we thought Welsummer as it grew feathers then found out it was a...
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    2 year old hen now barren - is this a new normal?

    Amelia, you are the first one I have talked to of all the chicken people I know to have the same thing as I did with my previous hen. Must be something internal and specific to her since your other hen is fine and on the same diet and in the same environment. And mine was only 1 year old. But...
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    2 year old hen now barren - is this a new normal?

    She just started that this weekend. Comb was huge, floppy and red a few months ago up through last week, even after the laying stopped. But now it is doing its shrinking and paling in color with the molt. The egg problem was months before the molt though.
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    2 year old hen now barren - is this a new normal?

    Back in May we thought our hen was egg bound. I consulted with people on my yahoo group and they took me through the steps of soaking, etc. Her symptoms were that she began to only pass a watery diarrhea, egg came through shell-less and she had no appetite. Each day spent time in the nest box...
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    can you train a dog to not hurt your chickens?

    Lots of good advice already that I won't repeat. I think it depends on several factors and hard to answer without knowing the dog's personality and training. My labs have all been trained to retrieve birds on command but never touched our own ducks and chickens. But a lot of training went...
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    Can a critter take eggs without breaking them?

    My Labrador retriever used to sneak eggs that I gathered and set down. He carefully picked them up and apparently swallowed them whole as there was no evidence of broken shell on the ground and no "egg on his face". Finally caught him at it. I know snakes can do this. So there are probably...
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