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    Daytime predator

    My son caught a rat snake in the middle of the afternoon. Well he surprised it anyway and it scurried off with an egg. I would have been overjoyed if he had actually caught it and dispatched it.
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    All the hens took Mother's Day off

    Someone else offline suggested the same thing; that perhaps something scared them, but I don't think so. There are dogs in the neighborhood, but that's nothing new. We moved the chicken tractor a few feet, but that too is nothing new to them.
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    All the hens took Mother's Day off

    I have eight hens, and for most of the last week I've been getting 6 or 7 eggs per day. On Mother's Day, not a single egg. Did they know it was Mother's Day, or perhaps it being Sunday, decided it was a day of rest?
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    no egg since molt in January

    I bought six hens a week ago, and have only gotten three eggs so far. The guy at the feed store said don't buy hens because you never know how old they really are. How do you tell how old a hen is?
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    Complete Nube with laying hens

    Quote: Okay, so I got laying pellets, and a bag of oyster shell. It was more expensive than the pellets. I put two big handfuls in the feeder with the layer pellets. Is that enough?
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    Building the chicken tractor as inexpensively as possible.

    Quote: Because it's mostly steel framed, it's not that heavy. there are wheels at one end, and handle on the other. If I have to move it very far, I hitch it to the back of a 4 wheeler, and pull it. Here is a pic of the business end.
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    Not laying in the nesting boxes

    I'm so excited! I got my first egg today, but it was on the ground under the ramp and not in the nesting boxes. Should I be too concerned?
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    Here is my first egg from a Buff Orp. I found it on the ground inside the coop; not in the nice cozy nesting boxes I created for them. How do I get them to start using the nesting boxes?
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    Mixed Flock Questions

    I took a picture of my odd hen. I think it looks more like a Houdan. What do you think?
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    Building the chicken tractor as inexpensively as possible.

    Here is my completed chicken tractor.
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    Breed Identification

    Quote: Are you certain, or that just a guess? I don't know, but here is a pic of Houdan from BYC Breed index.
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    Breed Identification

    What breed is this please?
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    Building the chicken tractor as inexpensively as possible.

    Most of the materials for my chicken tractor were laying around taking up space anyway, so when I decided to build one, I scavenged as much material as possible for free. For the frame, I picked up some store shelving (1" square tubular steel) from a store that was going out of business, and...
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    Mixed Flock Questions

    They have only been in the coop one day. I don't want to man handle the ladies to examine their private areas just yet. I still don't understand, even among the three birds that are alike, how one knows which bird laid the egg. If there's one egg and it's light brown (from a buff orp) and...
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    Mixed Flock Questions

    I have three Buff Orpingtons, two Rhode Island Reds, and what I think is an Appenzeller Spitzhauben. How will I know which hens are producing? I'm not sitting there watching them lay eggs.
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