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    Hens not laying in nesting box

    My new flock just started laying about 2 1/2 weeks ago. I have 4 barred rocks and two buff orpingtons, so far 2 hens are laying. The others are showing the signs that they are about to lay. Anyways I'm getting two eggs a day from two of the barred rocks, they like to lay in the corner of their...
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    one hen not laying

    I have 4 isa browns, all have been laying since January 2017. I have one I call my problem layer, she would often lay huge double yolk eggs, lay soft shell eggs often, she went egg bound once, and layed a weird conjoined egg. She went egg bound in april, I got her to pass it but she took a few...
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    conjoined egg

    I have a question about one of my hens laying eggs. I had an unusual egg layed this evening, it was two soft eggs that were conjoined. The hen in question layed a perfectly heathly egg this morning. Shes a 7 month old isa brown that has been laying since around mid January. She has a diet of...
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    Egg bound hen

    I have a small flock of 4 ISA browns that have been laying for a couple months now. We normally get 4 eggs everyday and once in a while one wont lay and we only get 3 egg. Yesterday (sunday), we only got 3 eggs and the same today only 3 eggs. My wife always gets the eggs in the morning since i...
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    Our ISA browns

    Our 4 isa browns enjoying some time in our backyard this afternoon. It was over 70 here in northern Indiana today. My wife and i spent time with the chickens afterwork.
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    hen with a bleeding vent

    I checked on my flock of isa browns this evening after i had change their bedding and noticed some blood drops on the bedding. I checked all four butts and found one hen bleeding front her vent area. I also found a soft broken egg layed in the coop too. She layed the soft egg very late in the...
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    soft egg questions

    My wife and I have 4 ISA brown hens. They have been laying for little over a month now. At first we had a few soft eggs and a few tiny eggs but all 4 have been laying good eggs for the last few weeks. The last couple days ive found a soft egg in the coop. Today i had two soft and two good eggs...
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    first egg today!

    One of our 4 isa browns layed their first egg today! Its about half the size of a largestore egg. My wife and i were very excited and surprised one of them was ready to lay. They recently started sing their egg laying song and two were squatting. Now my question is should i switch over to layer...
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    aggressive pullet

    My wife and i are new to chickens, we have a small backyard flock of 4 ISA browns. They are all good with each other and my wife. Three are good with me but one pecks at me aggressively. The girl that pecks at me loves my wife and is very gentle with her, she just started acting aggressively to...
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    first winter with my chickens

    This is the first winter with our chickens. We have had some cold temps near 0 and the 4 girls have been fine. Now on sunday we are supposed to have a low temp of -14, located in northern indiana near chicago. Im going to keep the coop closed up that day. I have between 6 and 8 inches of pine...
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    my girls!

    The hens feeding from my hand for the first time. The girls watching me installing a feeder in the coop and installing some coop lighting. My wife holding Rose, one of our four ISA browns. Rose is the most tame chicken we own, she loves being around us.
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    hello new to byc!

    Hello, my wife and i are new to owning back yard chickens. Our city approved this past summer an ordinance allowing residents to keep up to four hens, no roosters. So i built a coop in my free time over a few months and about a month ago we picked up four ISA brown pullets from a local farmer...
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