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    butchered chickens full of eggs

    O.K., this sounds nasty, but we have a small flock - 9 hens - most of which are golden buffs, along with a barred rock - all which came from Meyer hatchery two years ago. Five of the golden buffs and the barred rock haven't laid a single egg since last August. We keep light in their coop for...
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    Tried Everything, No Eggs....

    I've got 13 hens, most of whom are 1 1/2 - 2 years old. While I realize that egg production drops as they age, I was getting 3-4 eggs all winter, and am STILL getting 3-4 eggs. I have been raising chickens for several years (10?), and have never had a problem like this. I have wormed them...
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    Randy Rooster

    soooo.....I've got this rooster who's extra friendly....to humans. He is really rough on the girls, though. He's very aggressive, and grabs them by the neck (no gentle pecking) before mating. Most of the hens are missing feathers on their necks, backs, and rumps. Found one of my hens with a...
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    Trouble Posting

    Hello! I am trying to post a new thread, and can NOT figure out how to post it in any forum other than this one. I don't have any "Start New Thread" tab or button come up (except in this area) no matter where I hack around the site, nor can I find information about how to do so. I didn't have...
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    Slight Bleeding from Cloaca

    Hi, everyone! I have a friend whose daughter raises laying hens, and she's very worried about one of her girls. She has a hen who is only about a year and a half old who has been bleeding just a little bit from her cloaca for the past three weeks. She (the hen, NOT the daughter!) is still...
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    Housing and Feeding New Chicks with Broody Hens

    Greetings! Though I've been raising layers for awhile, we've never raised our own chicks from eggs. Awhile ago, three of our hens went broody (two seabright banties and a dominique), so we decided to let them keep a few eggs for kicks and giggles. Our rooster is a bold little buff brahma...
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