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    ⠀ chicks only 7 1//2 months old...it's WARM here but no egg laying

    (First time for me & chicks: they are 7.5 months old) My chickens get layer feed and lots of green/ fresh herbs as well as oyster shell grit. they are friendly, look healthy have a large enclosed run but they ALL stopped laying in late september. it is still real warm in San Diego. Is this...
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    it's mid Oct and my Favorole has been broody for 2 weeks

    My broody Hen has no eggs under her and has not laid one in over a week and sadly has not allowed the other hens in ANY of the nest boxes while she puffs up and shrieks at them (& me when I lift her out a few times a day) there is no rooster and she way laying just fine prior to this episode...
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    is it cannibal behavior

    I only have 6 hens in my coop/ run: 2 Ameraucana, 2 black Maran, 1 Faverolle and 1 blue andalusian. The later 2 of these stayed in the brooder a bit longer as they were 1 and 2 weeks younger (DOB Mar-7 12 and 18/ 2014). It was a bit of push away for the younger newcomers and then...
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    2 youngest chicks bullied by 4 'toddlers"

    I started with 6 chicks, but one of the the 2 that were a week younger had accidental death when they when first when first given run vs brooder. I replaced with one even a week younger then put 4 oldest in run/ coop full time and left the 2 youngest in brooder. NOW THEY ARE ALL IN THE COOP...
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    making my baby chicks like being petted?

    I had "expected" the chicks to run to me when I change water or pick them up to pet them but they run away. the DOB 3-5 cuckoo maran did at first but same DOB ameruancana always ran from from reaching hand. the Salmon faverolle DOB 3-12 has started squeaking when I reach in now too. What is...
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    this is all new: me & my little lady birds

    talked and talked about chickens but decided JUST DO IT. So we bought a pre-made coup and got 2 cuckoo maran and 2 ameruacana and (a week younger ideally these should have been the eldest) 2 salmon faverolle. tryng to keep the temp regular and the butts clean (on 2) has been the biggest...
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