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    One of my hens won't stay with the flock - any suggestions for bringing her back into the fold?

    A couple of weeks ago I was putting the chickens to bed, locking their coop up, and I noticed one of my white sex links was missing. I have two of these and one is very timid and one time got her leg band off. When I rebanded her, I put hers on the left leg, all of the other chickens have...
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    Surprise my 3.5 month old hens are laying.

    I got day old chicks on May 1st this year. Last Friday, on August 23rd, my husband found a clutch of 24 eggs in our back yard. I do have 4 older hens that lay 2 brown eggs and 2 off white eggs pretty regular with 4 eggs for me per day. These were stark white eggs which could have only come...
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    Something was hanging from my chicken butt and she hasn't laid an egg for 4 days I think.

    We just got back from Texas on Tuesday and the lady who was looking after the chickens said there were only 3 eggs that day not 4. The next day I went out and sure enough there were also only 3 eggs, and the same yesterday. Now today I went out this morning and again only 3 eggs. I looked at...
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    Need help--planning to start a flock!

    I am reading a book about gardening with chickens and that is how we got started. I have 9 raised beds, so far, and I designed a triangle chicken tractor to fit on them. They are all 4x8. I wanted to get my chickens this weekend because I have had to plant in 5 boxes already. I wanted the...
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    New here from Ontario

    Hi there, today I went down the road to a friend of mine and came home with 5 of her hens. In April I went to our local store and ordered thirteen chickens and they were delivered on May 1st. I have 6 breeds from the chicks and the 5 I got today are all mixed. I have the chicks inside the...
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    Need help--planning to start a flock!

    HI there, I am new to chickens too this year. I went to our local store and ordered my chickens in April to be delivered May 1st, day olds. But because I wanted eggs now, I went down the road to a friend of mine just at noon today and came home with 5 of her hens. Once my chicks get feathers...
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