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    Is my Polish barren?

    I'll check her tonight and check back in the morning.
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    Is my Polish barren?

    She has been on layer feed. Now she is on starter crumbles because we have some new little ones. She gets oyster shell in a different bowl.
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    Is my Polish barren?

    She hasn't layed all summer. When we switch clocks forward, I put a light in the coop. I ruled out bugs or illness since the other chicken is perfectly fine. We have had others. All of which layed just fine as well. We had another Polish as well that had a heart attack and the remaining...
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    Is my Polish barren?

    We have a Polish that is a little over a year old. She layed just as we expected for many months. It has now been 3-4 months without an egg from her. She definitely moulted but now looks back to normal and has for a while. She acts perfectly healthy. We have a Buff Orp that is the same age...
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    Merging old and new (housing and feeding logistics)

    Feeding them all grower sounds like the way to go. I have a bowl of oyster shell already out.
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    Merging old and new (housing and feeding logistics)

    Thank you for your advice. The older hens don't seem to have much interest in the new ones and pretty much stay away from them. I don't know how much guidance they will get. My food concern was based on past reading that layer feed is not good for the babies (too much calcium). If I remember...
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    Merging old and new (housing and feeding logistics)

    We have 2 birds left from our original 5 (Buff Orp and a Polish). They are a little over a year old, and are free-range. I open the coop and run in the morning and close them up at night. We have 8 new birds of varying breeds that are 6 weeks old. We have been putting the babies out in a...
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    Using broody hen to raise new chicks

    We have a hen that just went broody. She's not even sitting on any eggs. We don't have a rooster either. We happened to have recently placed an order for 5 new chicks. They are due August 9th. Is it possible to trick the hen by placing a few eggs under her and then replace them with the new...
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    Fowl Pox + Rat Snake = No eggs

    The spots definitely look like fowl pox. They all have them on combs and waddles. Their routine was the same while we were gone. I'm assuming they are still a little spooked by the snake visit. They may also be laying in the yard somewhere. I was just wondering if chickens with fowl pox...
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    Fowl Pox + Rat Snake = No eggs

    We went on vacation last week and returned to a few issues. All four of our ladies have what appears to be a milder case of dry pox. We are monitoring the pox to make sure they don't end up with wet pox. On top of that, a rat snake got in the nesting boxes and ate some eggs. The neighbor boy...
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    Chicken died suddenly

    She was laying on her back and her neck was bent over pretty far. I thought she may have fallen off the roost at night and broke her neck. I have been reading about Sudden Chicken Death Syndrome as well. I really didn't know that chickens can just die out of no where like that.
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    Chicken died suddenly

    I have a 9 month old Polish that died in the coop last night. Acted fine and normal all day. No sign of trauma but on a chicken that's hard to confirm without plucking it. We are assuming that it was bitten by a snake (we have copperheads around). The chickens dig through brush all day. Is...
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    Polish stopped laying

    I live near Houston so I don't think temperature is the issue. They've been laying since mid-December with no problem.
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    Polish stopped laying

    I have 5 hens all born in July. Two are Polish. Everyone has been producing eggs and a good pace and then both Polish stopped laying about a week ago. The longest we went without an egg from one might have been one or two days. They are not sitting in the nesting box or acting funny or...
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    Pecking Problem Please Help!!!

    I just realized I put this in the intro section. My apologies. The first few sentences kind of cover an intro though. Glad to be here.
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