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    No Eggs Whatsoever

    Just to ask - will these guys return to laying eggs in the summer?
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    No Eggs Whatsoever

    Ah thank you. Well, its not nice to fight mother nature, so I won't. But eggs are $4 a dozen!
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    No Eggs Whatsoever

    Greetings, all you chicken experts My problem is that we have gotten no eggs whatsoever in about six weeks. We have three chickens (two Australorps and a Wynandotte) (we used to have four, but our Rhode Island Red went missing one day, alas) and we live in upstate-ish NY (where it gets cold...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    4 chickens, 4 eggs! Giddieup!
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    Funny Chicken story

    Here's a funny chicken story (is there any other kind)? So, we've had snow recently, and only one of our four is bold enough to venture out, and we saw scratching under the trampoline where there are still leaves and such exposed. Night falls; I go out and close up the coop. The next...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    3 or 4 from 4 chickens every day this week!
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    First egg!

    And now - ten days later - all four are laying! But so far the most reliable is the Rhode Island red, who's only missed one day.
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    First egg!

    Nice! And - egg #2 today. I'll stop mentioning it now... She's one of a batch of 4 (two Austrolorps and a Golden-laced Wynandotte). They are 21 weeks old, which feels a bit longer than the 16-20 weeks it should take them to get started. They all seem healthy and rambunctious, so I'm looking...
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    First egg!

    This morning, our Rhode Island Red was making all sorts of strange noises, and we came down to find her lying in the eggbox. We were out for the day, and when we came home, we found her first egg! I posted before and after pictures. The egg tasted great! egg after
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    Chickens gone missing

    Another chapter to this 'missing chickens' saga. They'd been good again about going to bed in the coop, so yesterday we didn't check until after dark. Well, they weren't in the coop, but a skunk was! And they had returned to the tree. That can't be a coincidence - I wonder if they had...
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    Chickens gone missing

    Ok - so the first few days after this, we went outside and shoo'd them into the coop, and then they seemed to learn to go back to the coop at night. But last night they put themselves to bed in the tree again!
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    Chickens gone missing

    I thought for a bit to post this in the 'Emergencies' forum but since everything worked out fine, I figured here is a better place. We're new to chickens, so if this sort of thing is commonplace, please ignore. Yesterday, the chickens had been free-ranging the yard (as they usually do) and the...
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    Opinions on our coop!?

    Looks really well done! I like the boards rather than plywood.
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    Breed AND gender

    Today we are dropping off the two presumed cockerels at a farm that will take them. Before we do, I would like to get one more opinion. Here is them yesterday - is there ANY chance they are hens? They are 10 weeks old. Unfortunately, they have best personality of all the chickens, so we...
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    Re-purposed playset/swing set coop and run

    The insulation on the walls and floor is covered. The insulation in the ceiling is exposed - we will cover it with something, but so far, they haven't seemed interested or able to get it.
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