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    Hopeless but still hoping for any suggestions... How to help an old hen lay.

    I'm not sure how you'd describe her patterns... I think for just a little mixed up bird she's pretty though. This is a pic of her from this morning:
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    Hopeless but still hoping for any suggestions... How to help an old hen lay.

    Penrod looks like he was a beautiful rooster! I'm so sorry you lost him, it must have been terrible. I think in a way I was lucky how mine went. When I got up in the morning to check on him, he was still sitting like he had been - it looked like he just put his head down and was gone.
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    Hopeless but still hoping for any suggestions... How to help an old hen lay.

    Well I think what is going to make the big difference is when was the last "time" before he passed away. He didn't have a long decline - looked perfectly fine until a day before passed, but I wasn't really paying attention to coop "action".... According to this thread folks seem to say...
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    Hopeless but still hoping for any suggestions... How to help an old hen lay.

    So if I'm lucky enough for a chicken from my beloved pets I wonder what this little "mutt" bird will look like?
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    Hopeless but still hoping for any suggestions... How to help an old hen lay.

    So good news at what I think is the very edge of when it would be safe to do it... I found another egg and added it to the incubator! Doubled my odds I hope!
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    Hopeless but still hoping for any suggestions... How to help an old hen lay.

    Well it's been exactly two weeks since my sweet rooster passed away and I couldn't believe my eyes this morning... finally an egg! I know I'm a very long way away from a grown chicken (she's an old bird and it may not even be fertilized) but I'll never get there without the first step...
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    Hopeless but still hoping for any suggestions... How to help an old hen lay.

    My icon pic is of my rooster, think he was just a black sex link - he just had a great personality really....
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    Hopeless but still hoping for any suggestions... How to help an old hen lay.

    Thanks for the ideas! Unfortunately the eggs I have in the fridge are at least two weeks old so I do t think there's any hope for them in the incubator... :-( She doesn't act sad really and is still hunting bugs and eating the same. I think part of it is that he was so good about going to...
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    Hopeless but still hoping for any suggestions... How to help an old hen lay.

    I can see how that would happen - the old bird is going to be much more interesting than some young hen! lol
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    Hopeless but still hoping for any suggestions... How to help an old hen lay.

    I had heard that, if she can/will lay any eggs, that they would be fertilized for a long time still. I had not thought about the issue of a young rooster causing trouble for my older hens - I guess because they still act so young. I am also thinking about starting a second coop area with a new...
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    Hopeless but still hoping for any suggestions... How to help an old hen lay.

    So a little over a week ago my rooster that I loved very much passed away. He was one of four chickens that I originally bought as pullets around 4 years ago that were all supposed to be hens but he wasn't. Now I only have two hens left as one of my other hens passed last summer. Up until my...
  12. These are my birds when they were still pretty young - Sasha, Maude (the rooster), Rosie and Roxie

    These are my birds when they were still pretty young - Sasha, Maude (the rooster), Rosie and Roxie

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    We are new to chickens and started out with four pullets picked from a big cage full of mixes at a Tractor Supply swap. I tried to pick four birds that all looked very different from each other (we just want chickens and the breed wasn't particuarly important). We lost one of our girls early...
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    Your Chicken Pictures Needed For The BYC 2012 Calendar

    Here's one (I have a high resolution of this too) of my four angels:
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