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    No egg

    I have three chickens that hatched in mid February. Two of them, a Easter egger and a Welsummer, started laying eggs at the end of July. My third chicken, another Easter egger, hasn't laid a single egg yet. She is at the bottom of the pecking order, but gets along with the others and isn't...
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    What do you think of this broody breaking idea

    I have a cochin mix bantam hen who is broody. I keep taking her off the nest and putting her out in the yard to roam, but she makes a beeline back to the nest box. This particular hen has always preferred her nest box to the roosts in her hen house, so it's normal for her to sleep in the box...
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    Broody hen questions

    My adult cochin mix bantam hen has been producing an egg a day for the past few weeks - heading inside her house, squawking, laying the egg, and coming back outside. We collect the egg every afternoon. The past few days she's been staying in her nest box. I thought it was because it's been dark...
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    Roosting in the nestbox despite my best efforts

    I moved my adult hen into a new coop this past weekend, and despite the fact that I've provided plenty of roosts that are all higher than the next boxes, she's chosen to sleep (and poop) in the nest box. She always sleeps in one box and lays her eggs in the other box, so the eggs aren't poopy...
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    Almost done!

    My friend and I have spent the past two weekends and the better part of the week constructing my coop for four hens. I started with the plans and a partial kit for a mobile stagecoach coop, but scrapped the hen house part of those plans for something bigger and better designed for my needs (and...
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    Any Mobile Stagecoach coop owners?

    I ordered the kit for the 4x8 mobile stagecoach and am about to start construction on it today. I have concerns about the hen house part of the coop though. Unless I'm missing something, it appears that every time I open the hen house to let the hens out, all of the substrate I use will get...
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    New chicken mom in Utah

    Hi everyone! I live in Salt Lake City, UT and started my small flock of backyard chickens a couple weeks ago. I have one adult bantam hen (would love to know what breed she is - just posted photos of her on the "what breed is this" board) and three three-week old chicks (2 araucanas (highly...
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    What breed is she?

    I was given this sweet bantam hen, but I have no idea what breed she is. She has feathers on her feet.
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