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    Almost 3months no eggs - what’s going on?

    Here is the short version. I had 5 cinnamon queens 3-4 years old and all four of the 3-year-olds were laying consistently. The 4 year old is done laying several months before. One day a fox got in to our fenced in yard and killed two of the 3-year-olds. It was traumatic to say the least. I...
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    How many eggs are there?

    My hens have started laying again, slowly but surely. I have five girls. Today I found three eggs in the nesting box plus this in the corner under the roosting area. Do you think this is one or two eggs? Excuse the messy corner
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    Where are my eggs?

    I had three he a who were laying regularly. I added three more hens in mid September. I figured there would be some laying issues while the new hens got acclimated. Then it appears they all went into molt about the same time My egg count per month: august - 84 September - 41 October - 10...
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    One soft shell egg today

    My egg laying has been very consistent (4 hens, 3-4 eggs daily) for the past several weeks. Then two days ago, I had two eggs and yesterday, one egg. I went to the coop this morning and found this one. Up on the roosting area above the nesting boxes (my girls always lay in the nesting boxes)...
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    Introducing the new coop

    So we repurposed an old shooting shack into a chicken coop. Our four hens were divided into two small prefab coops. I closed the two small coops and hoped they would go into the new coop. Nope! They lined up at their small coops waiting for me to let them in. I let them go into their old coops...
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    Do I really need heat in my coop?

    I have four Cinnamon Queens that are about one year old. They are all laying fine. This is my first winter having chickens in Mississippi. We are transitioning the girls from a prefab coop to a repurposed shooting house (still in process of renovating it). I’m attaching a photo of it...
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    One hen not doing so well

    I have seven hens - 3 for four months (red sex link) and 4 for two weeks (Cinnamon Queen). They are co-mingling very well in free range. I am in Mississippi and it has been in the upper 90s for most of the past week. One of my original 3 didn’t come out of the coop when I opened up on Friday...
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    Adding new hens to an existing flock

    I have had three red sex link he s for four months now and have had zero eggs. After posting here several times and talking to local people, I determined that my hens were older than the seller told me and have most likely laid out. So. We bought four Cinnamon Queens last Friday. I have two...
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    Still no eggs

    Updates since my last post: we had one no-shell egg - it was the albumen only - thanks to those who told me it was close to a real egg My husband’s brother came over - he used to raise chickens. He said that the hens are older than i thought - he says that at least two of them are close to 3...
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    Is this the beginning of an egg?

    I have had three red sex link hens for 12 weeks and not a single egg. Today I noticed this in one of the nesting boxes. It looks like the white part of an egg but I not sure. Can someone help me identify if maybe I’m getting close to having egg layers instead of pets? Please forgive the straw...
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    I’ve had these hens for 7 weeks and no eggs

    Good morning. I posted a few weeks ago asking when y’all thought I may get eggs from my three red sex links. I have been really patient but not one single egg yet. I don’t know what to do different. I’m adding a picture of them in case someone can tell me something. They eat egg laying crumbles...
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    When should I expect new hens to start laying

    I brought three red sex links home on Friday. They seemed to settle right in, eating, drinking, foraging, went inside their shelter at 7pm. All seems well. I even had dummy eggs in the two nesting boxes. When should I expect eggs? The man I bought them from said they were between 1-1.5 years old
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    I’m a new chicken farmer!

    My husband and I retired last year and live in a little cabin in the woods in North Central Mississippi. I have wanted to have chickens for the past several years and did a lot of research to figure out what was involved. We finally have our 8 acres laid out and I decided now was the time. I...
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