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    2yo Chickens still not laying after winter

    Thanks for your response, I guess I'll leave them in for a few days! I just feel guilty doing that - I love to let them free range the yard. Not huge, our total property is only ⅓ acre but house/front yard is probably half of that. We do have some thicker bushes around 2 sides but I've gotten...
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    2yo Chickens still not laying after winter

    Located in Central Maryland. I have 5 chickens, all 2 years old. (2 Easter Eggers, 1 Buff Brahma, 1 Speckled Sussex, 1 Welsumer) This winter of course they stopped laying. I'd say beginning of April I started getting eggs again, 4 or 5 per day. That lasted about a week and now I'm only getting...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Today we got 5! Out of 6 hens. We've been pretty consistently getting 4 over the last month or so. We got our chicks as babies in April and they started laying August 1st. I wish I could tell whose laying what, mostly out of curiosity. We've got a wire basket full of pretty colors - blue/green...
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    How u feed your chickens?

    We have a hanging feeder in the run that they can access during daylight hours with layer crumbles. I do try to let them free range our backyard for a few hours every evening. I also give them treats, like fruit & veggie scraps (or fruit my kids are tired of eating and on the verge of soggy so...
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    How reliable are automatic coop doors?

    We have a solar-powered auto coop door that I purchased on Amazon. We kind of scrambled at the last minute to finish up the coop & run, to get the chickens out of the basement before we needed to go out of town for the week...and I was really overwhelmed with researching stuff so I picked the...
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    Chicken Mom in MD!

    Thanks! Honestly, I just went with my daughter's and let them pick what were available at our local farm & feed store. Those 4 have the best personalities out of them all. Our buff brahma is kind of a goof, but the welsumer is totally skittish & weird! I wasn't really expecting them to all have...
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    Chicken Mom in MD!

    Hi neighbor! I am in Anne Arundel County. In a neighborhood so I'm glad all of my chicks have turned out to be hens...I like my neighbors lol! Although I do wish we could have one, we have had plenty of predators snooping around! Thankfully we really researched before we built our coop & run, so...
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    Chicken Mom in MD!

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes! We got our first 6 chicks in April 2023. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 6 hens (3) What breeds do you have? 3 Easter Eggers, 1 Welsumer, 1 Speckled Sussex, 1 Buff Brahma (4) What are your favorite aspects of...
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