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    Hens Eating Eggs...

    I agree. Lesson learnt. I really enjoyed the contrast of keeping silkies but I think these different roosting habits mean that combining them in a mixed flock has caused a problem I've never had before.
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    Hens Eating Eggs...

    I looked at protein and calcium solutions, golf balls, entertainment, cuhcking out of coops etc - 'everything', but it is more basic than that. A neighbour had a fox attack and had one hen left - a silkie. The neighbour asked me to take her in so I did. I didn't know anything about silkies at...
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    Hens Eating Eggs...

    I have this problem and I've tried everything. Today the first egg lay of the year got gobbled by the usual suspect - so disappointing because no eggs have been laid for four months and I'd hoped the habit was broken. Now I have the prospect of no eggs unless I do the deed. I think this is THE...
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    Male or female dark brahma?

    Never knew the eyeliner theory but it fits. There were other signs too as they developed but this early picture of Hilda dark shows her with her brother, Howard. I was clueless at the time.
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    Reply to review by 'Sennerd' on item 'Mottled Cochin (bantam)'

    I've had two of these and agree they have bucket loads of personality but they can be completely infuriating. In fact this is the first time I have had to cull a hen early in its life because it was very aggressive with nesting box use and even though it was low in the pecking order it got...
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    aggressive baby cochin!

    I think this is a similar experience then. Since I had not seen this behaviour before I thought getting two gentle giant Brahmas to occupy the coop would bring an end to the chaos of the two bantams. Alas, one bantam never lived that long but I do think it had a screw loose. The remaining bantam...
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    Hen won't let other hen lay

    I had the same problem but I wouldn't say she 'pulled' because it was a full on attack of any hen that was laying. I tried to deal with the dominance and aggression issue but it resurfaced again and the logistics of sealing off nesting boxes at the right time each day became too much so she had...
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    aggressive baby cochin!

    I had to get rid of a bantam mottled Cochin last week. It had aggression problems I have not read about anywhere on the internet. When it pecked others it put it's whole body into it and always aimed at the head so an eye was going to go sooner or later. It refused to nest in the same box as any...
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    aggressive bantam cochin hen?

    I have two that have sent me mad. One in particular bloodied the other one regularly if it tried to lay in the nesting box. The pecks were also very hard head shots. Then the pecking order switched when the dominant one went broody. It returned to the coop and the squawking competition and...
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