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    Broody Hen Help!

    Hello. I have three hens and live in Northern California. For going on three weeks, one (best layer) is obsessively sitting in her nest, trying to hatch invisible eggs. I don't know what to do about it. I have tried: * Locking her out of the nest during the day. She just walks around fluffed...
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    Egg Laying Weird Issues

    Hello. I have an ongoing problem that is frustrating me. I've had chickens for about 10 years, usually about 3-4 at a time. About two years ago, my two youngish (about 2 years) hens stopped laying eggs. The other black chicken of the flock also slowed down production. I was very perplexed. I...
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    Chickens Not Laying. Help.

    Hi. I have three hens and they haven't laid for over a month and a half. I'm very frustrated. Two are about two years old and one is four years old. I've never had problems before. They look healthy. They don't have mites, they're energetic, and don't seem sick at all. They aren't molting or...
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    Lump on Face/Loss of feathers/Not laying/Help

    Hello! I had three hens, and about a month ago, two of the three stopped laying. I couldn't figure out why. I increased shells and protein in the food, let them out to forage more, made sure they had fresh water and ... nothing. One hen is about a 1 1/2 years and the other, the black one, is...
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    Chicken Attacks Me

    Hi. So I have three hens. They have never gotten along very well and now the oldest hen, Penny, is henpecking my stupidest bird, Olivia. Penny has torn out much of the feathers on Olivia's back, which I treated with Pick-Me-Not, so it is starting to grow back. Olivia, who I really can't...
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    Is This Ever Going to End? Pecking Order Question

    This is my first year raising chickens. I have three of them. One, Penny, is almost six months and the other two are almost three months. This age difference is because we had to get rid of the older chicken's pal, since he turned out to be a rooster. I did try to get chickens that were closer...
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    How Long Can a Chicken Live Alone?

    Hiya. So I have a rooster and a hen. I thought I was getting two hens, but ended up with a rooster. I have two more young girls that I want to put out in the coop, but they are still a little young to go out there. It will be at least a week before they are old enough. The rooster is now...
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    Hen is Crowing--Male or Female?

    Hi folks. I decided to try having chickens this year and bought two chicks in March. This morning, my Rhode Island Red started trying to crow. "Lucy" is three months old. I thought she was a girl, but now I am not so sure. No one around here, including me, knows much about chickens, so I...
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