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Well, we have four chickens and today, for the first time, we got four eggs. We have three older hens, who each lay about one a day. And we have a littler younger chicken, breed and age unknown, and she hadn't been laying. The last couple of days I found eggs in odd places that were also much...

I'll post this question again in a slightly different format. Our adopted rescue battery hen was laying one egg nearly every day. Now she is not laying. In the week before she stopped laying, our smaller adopted chick/pullet began pushing itself underneath her. That chick now sleeps...

Thanks Poseygrace. Henny Penny layed consistently for a full month or more, so I don't think it's the stress of moving. It could be dominance with the small chicken, but it's the small chicken that seems to WANT to be under her. Both of the smaller chickens push up under her. The smallest...

We are new chicken owners on a deck in SF. We have four chickens total. We adopted one hen from a humane society. We don't know the breed. She was laying one egg every day or two very consistently. For one week now, no eggs. The day we adopted her, we also adopted two pullets of indeterminate...