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    hens confused?

    Hello, i Have have a quick behavior question, my hens are 18 months and going through their first molt. So far they been loseing feathers at a slow rate, so I have yet to see any major feather loss. (But they are sort of miserable) Egg production has entirely stoped, yet on occasion one still...
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    purple comb, lethargic and no eggs.

    Hello. Today I noticed one of my 1.5 year old leghorns, is acting weird. This morning when was in the nesting box for over four hours, she never layed a egg. In fact almost none of my hens been laying any more. (I been getting three eggs a day, I have six hens and used to get six a day.) When...
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    rooster hen aggression

    Sorry if this has been asked before but I could not find any answers so far. Sunday I finally introduced my rooster, a 4 month old naked neck "chester" to my flock of 6 one year old hens. By day two they all got surprisingly along. I thought I got lucky until he started to try to mate with my...
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    mysterious neck wound

    I recently went out and checked my chickens to notice one of my hens has a small wound on her neck. It looks like a hole but I can not see any tissue or muscle. Could it just be missing feathers or a actual hole. I suspect another chicken did this but I am not sure. Their appears to be dryed...
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    how to get chickens in a new coop

    I just finished building a new coop for my six chickens, it is larger and more warm and gets them out of the weather. I tryed to get them in to them new coop one at a time but they get scared and run the minute i open the door to go get another chicken. Does anyone know how i can get all of them...
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    16_17 week Leghorn

    I have a 16-17 week leghorn, it is really agressive, pecking at my production red pullets, but not bullying the other leghorn pullets. The leghorn is not the biggest chicken and it comb is not the biggest, but sits up stright while the other leghorns of the same comb leans to the side of her...
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    Production red pullet not moving.

    I have 6 chickens, 3 leghorns and 3 production reds, recently one of my production red pullets started to lay eggs, they are all around 17 weeks old. Soon a leghorn began to lay eggs so i bought oyster shells so they can get calcium until i can get layers feed. Today one of my other production...
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