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    I've read a lot, but just can't figure out what's wrong with Bonny

    2 years old Red Star Eats organic layer pellets plus kitchen leftovers about twice a week (oatmeal, pasta, squash). Lives with one other chicken who plucks Bonny's neck feathers. Her poop was watery and had some green, yellow, and white specks a few days ago, but the weather has been too windy...
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    Molting, losing weight, won't eat treats

    You have a good point, wifezilla! Funny thing, I made eggs for them that night and put flaxseed meal and (lots of) cayenne in them. You know, some say cayenne will promote egg laying. Well..........the one that is not molting has laid two eggs since then, after months of not laying...
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    Molting, losing weight, won't eat treats

    Well I'm feeling relieved that she is just molting. I still can't believe that she doesn't want the BOSS. I gave her some cooked chicken (seems so wrong) and she's been eating her regular food. I swear she's weighing half as much as my other one (I just have two). They're not too happy. We've...
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    Molting, losing weight, won't eat treats

    Quote: BOSS=Black oil sunflower seeds
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    Molting, losing weight, won't eat treats

    Quote: I don't know much about molting, but every time she shakes she loses feathers. All of a sudden one day there were feathers all over in the coop. She even lost her one black tail feather.
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    Molting, losing weight, won't eat treats

    One of my 2 girls, Henrietta, started to molt last week, her first time. So for the past few days when I let them out to roam she won't eat the BOSS that they usually love. She instantly starts to search for bugs and worms, but won't touch the BOSS. Bonny, the other girl, eats the BOSS like mad...
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    two red star layers-cheap- near Portland, OR

    Not yet, but I will.
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    two red star layers-cheap- near Portland, OR

    For $10 you can have Hennrietta and Bonny. They are a year and a half old. Last year at this time I was getting one egg a day from each. This year I'm lucky to get one a week! Hennrietta lays in the nest while Bonny insists on laying from the roost, no matter what time of day it is. Bonny has...
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    Can chickens eat the turkey neck?

    Well there is a turkey-neck-picking-fest going on out there! Makes me want to cook turkey more often! I better get some eggs for this! Barb
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    Can chickens eat the turkey neck?

    I'm making my (free range,organic) turkey today. I don't usually use the neck and those other things in that bag. If I boil them up can I feed them to my girls? Can I just throw the whole neck, bone and all, out for them? Sorry if this is a dumb question. Barb
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    Internal Layers and Other Egg Issues....Will this never end?? LONG

    I too would like to know what the root cause of our internal layers is. I lost Lucy, my favorite girl, at 16 months and now I'm afraid Hennrietta is an internal layer now. She's at 20 months now. The odd thing about Lucy was when she had not laid for about 2 months she suddenly laid for a few...
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    Tell me about your internal layers

    I lost Lucy to this in July. She was a Red Star layer, 18 months old, from a hatchery, and my favorite! I think it started after she had laid for about 4 months. She would look uncomfortable, sit on the nest without laying, and sometimes lay a soft shelled egg. In her last months she would...
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    Laying eggs on ROOST?

    Good luck with that. My Bonny insists on laying from the roost. She threw such a fit the one time I put her in the nest when she was laying. That was the only time she laid in the nest, because I blocked her in there. Sometimes we actually catch it when she drops it. She's not the brightest...
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    Help? Egg bound? Sick? Not sure what's going on

    I'm sorry about your hen. Please let us know if you learn anything.
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    Help? Egg bound? Sick? Not sure what's going on

    Has she been laying? Last winter my Lucy didn't feel well. She didn't run for food like usual, her tail hung down, and her head was scrunched down near her body. She went from laying daily to once in a while laying a soft shelled egg, even though she had plenty of oyster shell. I figured she...
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