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  1. Little-farm

    Older hens kicking new eggs out of nesting box?

    How did you get her to not lay on the floor? When my first girls started laying on the floor, I put the nesting box on the floor and then raised it up slowly, but would this work for the second batch of layers? Or will the older girls lay in it instead? We are moving house in a week, so maybe...
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    Older hens kicking new eggs out of nesting box?

    I have not seen her lay in the box, but I had the suspicion because there are beak scratchings all over the eggs. I suppose the other possibility is that she is laying in the corner, and then rolling? The egg is out in the open of the coop. I will try and put the egg back, as you suggested and...
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    Older hens kicking new eggs out of nesting box?

    Has anyone had the problem of older hens kicking the eggs of younger hens out of the nesting box? I have 6 boxes, but they all lay in one and twice I have found an egg on the floor (without any cracks) of the coop- same egg (araucana egg). The older girls tend to keep the younger ones in place...
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    27 weeks and No eggs

    Cogratulations wickedlees!! So wonderful to have our girls laying.....finally!! Happy days, and they are only going to get more productive!
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    27 weeks and No eggs

    HOORAY!!! It really is when you have given up looking. So very happy for you! I actually had both my sex link and my silver laced Wyandotte lay for me for the first time yesterday. It's like when one goes, they all start going. Must be the pheromones!! When it rains it pours.
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    27 weeks and No eggs

    The mystery egg actually belonged to my cockoo maran who was almost 30 weeks when she started laying last week. I had found a few in the nesting boxes, but over the last few days she has been singing an egg song over by our compost, and I didn't put two and two together. I went and looked today...
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    I need some buckeye expertise

    The reason I was confused was because the other one was so clearly a male. Large comb, wattles, crowing from early on, etc.... This one has taken much longer to get to this stage and his comb is so much smaller, but the coloring is right on. I can't tell you how happy I am to now have an answer...
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    I need some buckeye expertise

    Thank you!!! That makes it quite clear, finally! Anyone want a buckeye rooster?
  9. Little-farm

    I need some buckeye expertise

    I also have a video of the "crowing" I can email.
  10. Little-farm

    I need some buckeye expertise

    I have a buckeye that was born in May, but was one of two surviving chicks out of a dozen due to incubator temperature error (not mine, but a local college) the other one was male, and we had to get rid of him because he crowed non stop and was mean to the girls and our other rooster. This one...
  11. Little-farm

    27 weeks and No eggs

    Hey there! Wanted to let you know that I got a mystery egg today!! I believe it is from my Delaware, she has been hanging out in the nesting boxes lately, but I had not seen any eggs until today!! It is darker than my buff orphingtons, and has little speckles on it. So very exciting! Maybe she...
  12. Little-farm

    27 weeks and No eggs

    I don't use a light, I figure they need the extra energy to keep warm- we are getting colder now. It was 22 this morning. I don't mind sacrificing the eggs for them being warm. Since its natural, I don't want to mess with that. I believe they only make a certain number of eggs during the...
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    27 weeks and No eggs

    I am having the same problem. I have 3 layers, but 9 potential layers. The first 3 I got on April 30th, 2 of those are laying (araucana and buff Orpington) and oddly enough my silver spangled hamburg who is 6 weeks younger. The rest....nothing. Our daylight is only 10 hours here in Maine right...
  14. Little-farm

    8x8 Coop Thread

    It's wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing. How long did it take to build?
  15. Little-farm

    8x8 Coop Thread

    Do you have a final photo of your coop? It's exactly what I'd like to build.
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