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    Help my pullets are 19 weeks old and not one of them have laid an egg to my knowledge.

    Everything I have read..... even on here and at the hatchery stated 1920 weeks they should begin, but yes I know it will be spotty for a while with the pullets. As for my older hens Do you think that a light in the coop for a couple hours .
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    Help my pullets are 19 weeks old and not one of them have laid an egg to my knowledge.

    my grown hens are not laying either. I have 3 grown hens and a rooster and 11 pullets that as of this Thursday will be 19 - 20 weeks and I have not had an egg from ANYONE in almost 2 weeks. We keep them fed 16% layer feed, fruit and veggie scraps, clean water (changed twice a day). I clean...
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    HOW WILL I KNOW????? I am excited but a bit lost.

    ...I think she might be done. I went out there this morning and found the goose, gander, and gosling outside in the run. I HAD to intervene which ****** them off but I had to snatch the gosling while avoiding getting got by them. They backed me into a corner by the gate and I am disabled so...
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    HOW WILL I KNOW????? I am excited but a bit lost.

    I HOPE there are more....still none today but she will NOT move off the nest at all. I took two eggs out and did the warm water test and they both bobbed so they are good eggs..... but no more have hatched yet STILL! Everyone tells me let nature happen and let do her thing. Another egg I had...
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    HOW WILL I KNOW????? I am excited but a bit lost.

    Well as of yesterday at around 11:00 there was one gosling. Dad is still guarding her like a Trojan soldier. She is still sitting on her eggs. I moved her water dish to her and she bit it first and THEN i TIPPED IT A BIT SO HER BEAK TOUCHED THE WATER AND SHE DRANK AND DRANK. Oops caps lock...
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    HOW WILL I KNOW????? I am excited but a bit lost.

    Thank you scratch'n'peck for your information. I have had geese for a bout a year and she laid a clutch last FALL...yes Fall but only sat on it for about 3 weeks than deserted it, so this is my first hatching clutch so I just want to do it right and not mess it up. So I should FOR sure NOT...
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    HOW WILL I KNOW????? I am excited but a bit lost.

    Okay My mama Embden goose is on her nest.....today is day 29. Her mate my Gander Toulouse Romeo refused to go outside so I knew something was up. I bent down near her and her nest (about 2 ft. away and my nurse and I heard peeps peep peep peep.... all different sounding peepe and I was so...
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    Help I am a newbie with Geese and I have 15 eggs my goose has been sitting on for about 26 days.....

    Thank you VERY much! My Embden is a great sitter but I AM watching her becasue she for some odd reason decided to lay a clutch at the END OF FALL and into winter.... then deserted the nest about 21 days after she started sitting. Watching to make she she does not desert this nest. She started...
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    Help I am a newbie with Geese and I have 15 eggs my goose has been sitting on for about 26 days.....

    AND by the way I have checked eggs daily, candled, and took her off nest twice a day to bathe and eat. AND I provided food and water near her (although she wouldn't touch it.) I would keep her out of coop and off nest for about 15 minutes so she would eat, drink, exercise, and bathe. I also...
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    Help I am a newbie with Geese and I have 15 eggs my goose has been sitting on for about 26 days.....

    What are MY responsibilities now? What should I expect? Should I add clean straw under her eggs While she is away bathing? Do I need to provide anything except some water and maybe some starter feed for the chicks near the nest? I Recently bought day old chicks (chickens) from Cackle...
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    Large clutch.... but continued laying eggs while sitting on clutch Broody

    My embden laid 14 eggs and started sitting on and off for ab9out two days.... on for two three hours then off for an hour then back on for 6 hours off for a half hour, etc. etc.... well she stopped leaving her nest on the 12th and went full Broody with 14 healthy looking eggs and a lovely nest...
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    My hens won't leave coop - for ANYTHING

    My concern would be that if we close the coop door where will they go when they need to lay an egg? My hens spent all of the end of summer and all of fall outside all day and in the coop when sun went down....but NOW all of a sudden (for like 3 months) most of them will NOT leave the coop at...
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    My chickens don't want to leave the coop...

    And when there is NO snow and no rain? I have one hen who will go outside no matter what the whether and my rooster and both geese could care less... they also are outside living it up; but my other hens curl up in the corner of the second story in the coop and hide. I have put them outside but...
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    LOVE LOVE LOVE my birds but threatening to throw em in a pot.... sigh help please advice needed

    OH and ty for all of your input.... if you have more feel free. I am always open to information from more experienced fowl lovers.
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    LOVE LOVE LOVE my birds but threatening to throw em in a pot.... sigh help please advice needed

    Weather is pretty cold right now still... but we have days where the sun is out. We have one more week or two of cold temps 30's to 40's so maybe it is the weather? One of my hens and the Rooster and both my geese my tolouse and my Embden go out rain shine hail etc lol.... but the rest of my...
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    Holding my goose and Gander

    I am a novice still with my fowl as I have been a fowl owner for about 6-7 months now and study a lot. However, although my geese are not aggressive... he TRIED but I let him know I was the BOSS real quick like..... I am having a LOT of trouble picking them up. My goose is VERY large Embden...
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    LOVE LOVE LOVE my birds but threatening to throw em in a pot.... sigh help please advice needed

    Good day my Fowl loving friends! I love my chickens and gees and rooster so very much however, I am down to 4 hens due to culling as a result of an airborne illness that ran rampant. Lost two. Anyhow, that was a few months ago. Now I have two geese, a rooster, and four hens. One hen has...
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    Eggbound with Prolapse

    I had a hen with a prolapse and I had to put it back in three times gently..... additionally I used sugar..... plain white sugar on her prolapse and the swelling subsided within a day and she had no more problems. I would expect her to be sore after being egg-bound but keep an eye on her. I...
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    Help my chicken is like a statue! I am a novice and need advice desperately!

    Hen's (Licorice) condition deteriorated VERY quickly. She is totally lethargic . Barely opens her eyes. Has NO interest in leaving the cage. I can tip the cage a bit and she just rolls from one side or another. She has a thick yellow mucus like substance running like a weak faucet from her...
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    Help my chicken is like a statue! I am a novice and need advice desperately!

    Thank you Dawg....... this is the first post I have ever placed regarding Licorice.... you probably remember my post about Diamond which by the way is doing FANTASTIC. After laying her shelless egg and her prolapse she has been fine. I used sugar on her prolapse and the swelling almost...
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