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    Chickens won't eat stinkbugs?

    My chickens will not touch a stink bug. One of them tried to eat one before but spit it out instantly. Now they go nuts for night crawlers and they do like alot of other bugs.
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    Hens not laying in nesting box

    My new flock just started laying about 2 1/2 weeks ago. I have 4 barred rocks and two buff orpingtons, so far 2 hens are laying. The others are showing the signs that they are about to lay. Anyways I'm getting two eggs a day from two of the barred rocks, they like to lay in the corner of their...
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    Double yokers... what can I do?

    I had an ISA brown that would lay double yolk eggs every other day. She would lay a double yolk, then she would skip a day, and the she would lay a double yolk again. She did that for 6 months before she stopped laying. She had alot of issues with laying soft eggs and them breaking in her. The...
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    How much do you sell your eggs for?

    We sell ours 2 dzn for $5 and 1 dzn for $3.
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    Winterizing the nipple waterer??

    The aquarium heater worked in my girls waterer. It's a 2 gallon bucket with the horizontal nipples in a covered run. The coldest we saw last year was -10*F.
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    one hen not laying

    Thanks for the replies. I'll keep an eye on her in case she starts laying again and has issues. Shes a good hen but tonight as I grill dinner on my porch she is chatting up a storm while eating fresh green I grew for the chickens in my garden. If she's done laying and stays in good health I'll...
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    one hen not laying

    I have 4 isa browns, all have been laying since January 2017. I have one I call my problem layer, she would often lay huge double yolk eggs, lay soft shell eggs often, she went egg bound once, and layed a weird conjoined egg. She went egg bound in april, I got her to pass it but she took a few...
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    conjoined egg

    She has been laying since mid January of this year, so only a few months.
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    conjoined egg

    I have a question about one of my hens laying eggs. I had an unusual egg layed this evening, it was two soft eggs that were conjoined. The hen in question layed a perfectly heathly egg this morning. Shes a 7 month old isa brown that has been laying since around mid January. She has a diet of...
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    Egg bound hen

    I have a small flock of 4 ISA browns that have been laying for a couple months now. We normally get 4 eggs everyday and once in a while one wont lay and we only get 3 egg. Yesterday (sunday), we only got 3 eggs and the same today only 3 eggs. My wife always gets the eggs in the morning since i...
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    What do you have in your flock?

    My wife and i live in town and we are limited to 4 hens per the city ordinance. No roos at all. We have 4 isa browns.
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    Our ISA browns

    Our 4 isa browns enjoying some time in our backyard this afternoon. It was over 70 here in northern Indiana today. My wife and i spent time with the chickens afterwork.
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    hen with a bleeding vent

    I checked on my flock of isa browns this evening after i had change their bedding and noticed some blood drops on the bedding. I checked all four butts and found one hen bleeding front her vent area. I also found a soft broken egg layed in the coop too. She layed the soft egg very late in the...
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    soft egg questions

    Thanks for the replies! I collected eggs this morning and i had 4 good eggs.
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    Chickens sunbathing?

    Ours were loving the sun and warm weather here in northern indiana today.
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    soft egg questions

    My wife and I have 4 ISA brown hens. They have been laying for little over a month now. At first we had a few soft eggs and a few tiny eggs but all 4 have been laying good eggs for the last few weeks. The last couple days ive found a soft egg in the coop. Today i had two soft and two good eggs...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I Got 4 eggs from my 4 isa browns today. They have been laying for about a month now.
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    First egg...what is normal?

    My four girls have been laying for about a month now and ive found some huge eggs and some tiny eggs. The big eggs my girls layed all have been double yolkers.
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    first egg today!

    Thank you!
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    first egg today!

    I got three more eggs today. All three are a little bigger that the first egg yesterday. So 3 of the 4 are laying now. The 4th one just started squatting, only a matter of time before she lays her first egg. My wife said when she left the house for work she could hear the chickens singing their...
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