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    Amount of feed

    How much feed are your chickens going through? I thought I would be using much more than I am! It took me a month to go through a 50 pound bag with 16 chickens. Is that normal? Maybe they don't like it?
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    Chicken pile

    Can anyone tell me why my young pullets (3 months old) won't sleep on roosts? They all try to pile up in one corner, with much squawking and complaining as they step on each other and fight over who gets to be the furthest in. Is this normal? I even tried leaving the heat lamp on for them, but...
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    Super Egg causes strike?

    For the past three weeks, i've been getting 2 eggs a day. Of my 6 young ladies (now 18 weeks), only two had started laying. Three days ago, one of them laid the most unbelievable egg i've seen! It is so big it doesn't fit in a carton - about twice the size of a large egg. Looks like a duck egg...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    You think you've got slackers? I have 6 hens, and as of yet i'm only getting 2 eggs a day. One of which I've been finding on the floor under the roost - broken - early in the morning. Is one hen laying at night in her sleep and not bothering with a nest?
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    New member in PA

    Hi you'uns! We're fairly new to chickens, but are learning as quickly as we can and enjoying every minute of it. The chickens started as a project for my grandkids and I to do on the farm ... and I think everyone has fallen in love. We started with 6 red sexlinks (the closest we could get to a...
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