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    Changes in comb

    Hi all! This is my Easter Egger (black copper Maran cross) Hei Hei who is about 2.5 years old. She stopped laying eggs over the winter except for a few random super soft shelled eggs and hasn’t laid any eggs at all in a few months. They have free access to grower and layer food, oyster shell...
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    Sad chicken, not eating

    She’s just sad, slow and quiet. Not really hanging out with the others. Not really eating. I could only get her to eat a few bites of scrambled egg. She occasionally opens her mouth like readjusting her crop but hasn’t eaten. I tried giving her some epsom salt and warm water soaks just in...
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    Adding to mama hen with 2 week old chicks

    We lost 2 chicks (1 last night and 1 this morning), which brings us down to 4 chicks. They were hatched by a broody hen and she is amazing at raising baby chicks. I’m concerned with the 4 left that we could end up with only 1 hen since we aren’t allowed roosters. They are about 2 weeks old now...
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    Coop remodel with broody hen

    Just looking for input here. Please and thank you! We are doing a simple remodel to the coop that will only take about a days work. The coop is currently only big enough for 6-7 chickens. We have 6 hens and 1 is sitting on 7 eggs that are all developing nicely! The eggs have been sat on by her...
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    Broody hen 1 month plus

    Hi all! We have 1 hen who has been broody every month this year. She’s definitely not awful and mean like I’ve seen other speak of but she stays in the coop and doesn’t tend to come out and do chicken things. Usually I put her in a wire dog kennel for a few days (I let her out after everyone...
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    Changes for winter

    I’m starting to get concerned about our coop now that the hens are getting older and winter will be on the way. I didn’t know what I was doing or where to look before we built. We took part of the shed for the ladies. We are zone 6. So it gets cold but not ridiculously cold. We rarely get...
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    Indoor vs outdoor feeder

    We have a 10# feeder under shelter outside but I’m unable to keep the dog from eating it with them (she thinks she’s a chicken 😂 I throw out treats for them and scoures the yard with them too!) the chicken feed gives her terrible diarrhea 😔 our chickens rarely go in the coop unless it’s bedtime...
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    Feather picking?

    Hi! We are new to backyard chickens. We got 6 chickens about 4 weeks ago. 2 weeks in, 1 died. No idea why. She seemed very healthy doing all her Norma chicken things, and then was dead in the coop one morning. Almost a week ago, we got 2 more chickens. The oldest is about 5 months and the...
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