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Hi there, thanks for the response. No, not yet anyways. It's only started happening in the last couple of weeks, so she doesn't have any injuries that I can see.

Hi All, We're in Edmonton, Alberta, and we have three Rhode Island Reds - Bunty, Babs, Edwina - all three are 1 year-old. Their bedtime usually goes like this: Edwina and Babs goes into the coop first, while Bunty is still out in the run scratching and digging away. She'll go in later when...

That's another issue, they refuse to roost. They'll sleep anywhere but the roost.

Fake eggs and golf balls eh? Is that to teach them that eggs go in the nesting boxes? Hopefully that'll prevent them from sleeping in the nesting boxes as well.

We have 3 boxes to 3 chickens. The boxes are about 12"x 12"x 12"each.

Hi All, Just wondering if anybody has ran into the issue of eggs being laid in the run instead of the coop or nesting boxes? We have three 6-month old Rhode Island Red Hens that usually lays 1 egg each per day in the nesting boxes within 6 hours of them waking up, but today for some reason one...