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  1. Tamrajh

    I've Exiled My Roo

    I've given him weeks and he's just picking on this one hen and two pullets. One other pullet, a different breed, he leaves alone.
  2. Tamrajh

    I've Exiled My Roo

    He was seriously hurting some of my babies by pulling their neck feathers and pulling them around by them. Or he'd peck them on the back. One of the hens he would run off from the food too. My husband thinks I'm wrong to do this but it just really bugs me to see him being so rotten to the...
  3. Tamrajh

    Egg Segregation

    I have 5 different groups, 3 of which are laying eggs. The EE come from 2 different groups and seem to be laying together.
  4. Tamrajh

    Egg Segregation

    For the past few days all my green eggs have been in one nesting box and all my brown eggs have been in another box. Funny thing is, they're not in the same boxes every day. Are they doing this on purpose? They used to lay in different boxes but they weren't separated by color like this. It's...
  5. Tamrajh

    the things your chickens WILL NOT eat

    Dandelions flowers. Everything else gets gobbled up in minutes.
  6. Tamrajh

    I'm so depressed

    Well letting them out for a few days seems to have brightened things up with them. We went from 1 egg a day to 5 eggs a day! Still not up to par, but it's getting much better and that's what counts. I know it varies from day to day since not everyone lays every day but really felt it was...
  7. Tamrajh

    is it possible to spoil a chicken?

    If it bothers you then yes, you should break her of it. If not, then it's not a problem. If having a full grown hen on your lap is not going to be a problem, then it's not a problem. Everyone has their different limits of what being spoiled means. My husband says my Mom spoils her chickens...
  8. Tamrajh

    hen does not come back to coop

    I have to lure a couple of my gals in with treats, otherwise they would sleep out under the stars every night.
  9. Tamrajh

    Do they need more light?

    As for why you got eggs the first little bit, it could be the eggs were already in production mode before the move so they would have been laid, then the interruption from the move changed her system.
  10. Tamrajh

    I'm so depressed

    I hadn't really resigned myself to that, I just wanted to take some time off from worrying about it and being so frustrated. I'm better now and the girls have enjoyed having some time to run around in the pen instead of in just their run and coop. The pen is about 100' x 75' so they have plenty...
  11. Tamrajh

    I'm so depressed

    I have noticed there are a lot of posts from people asking why their production has suddenly dropped so low. Since I've only been on the board for a few months I'm not sure, but is that normal or is this something that's happening more than in one select area? Is it seasonal? Is it global...
  12. Tamrajh

    I'm so depressed

    I just read the rest of the questions so let me answer them. I've raised some of the girls from chicks but not all of them. I wondered if they were old too but I know they're not all old. They were laying when we first got rid of the skunk so I know they're the right age. If someone were...
  13. Tamrajh

    I'm so depressed

    Thanks for all your suggestions everyone. I really appreciate your ideas. I gave up and figured, I'm not getting eggs anyway, so I let them all out to free range. It doesn't matter if they lay in the yard now, hopefully they'll just be happy and that will make me feel better. I'll just buy...
  14. Tamrajh

    I'm so depressed

    I'm not free ranging at the moment because I want them to lay in the right spots (the nesting boxes) and until they learn to do it, I'm not letting them out. Nesting boxes are about 12x12 and lined with hay and pine shavings. Waterers could probably use to be cleaned out a bit but they're...
  15. Tamrajh

    I'm so depressed

    We had 34 chickens with only 19 being age laying hens so I thought I would get around 10 eggs a day since the hens were all around a year old. The most I ever got was 11, for 2 days. When egg production dropped to 2 a day I got rid of some hens I didn't care for and thought were causing problems...
  16. Tamrajh

    I think my pullet is starving herself-HELP!

    I should add, I didn't mean to starve her. I meant to put her down once I realized what was happening but when I got home from work that night she was gone.
  17. Tamrajh

    I think my pullet is starving herself-HELP!

    I had one that did the same thing. She kept trying to get under the other chickens like a baby chick would with their mother, not sure why. She starved herself to death, there was nothing I could do as I work too much to force feed her and I couldn't get her foot problem under control. I'm...
  18. Tamrajh

    Brown Runny Poo

    A few of my chickens have mustard colored runny poo. They all quit laying for a few days and have just started picking it back up. I forgot that I shouldn't and was feeding them too much chicken scratch, and I'm sure that's got something to do with it but am a little worried about the runny poo...
  19. Tamrajh

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    We've tripled since last Thursday! We're up to 3 now! That means 1/8th of our girls are laying eggs. Good grief. At least it's increasing!
  20. Tamrajh

    How many Eggs did you Sell today?

    I could have sold 5 dozen today if I'd had them. I sold 2 and will sell 2 more tomorrow.
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