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  1. PatrickSheehan

    If hens are laying in winter, will they set and hatch chicks too?

    Thanks!
  2. PatrickSheehan

    If hens are laying in winter, will they set and hatch chicks too?

    My hens are still laying like gangbusters so I've left one nest box to just collect eggs hoping that some hen will go broody and hatch the eggs out on her own. Is this hope in vain? There are definitely sub freezing nights so I wondered if that would destroy the embryos anyway perhaps, and...
  3. PatrickSheehan

    Chicken unresponsive!! Please help!

    Mostly nevermind. Bird seems dead now. Much stiffer than before. Anyone know what might've killed her so fast? She seemed just fine yesterday...
  4. PatrickSheehan

    Chicken unresponsive!! Please help!

    Hi, my chicken was in the nest box all day which was very unusual. This evening when I went to check her to see if her vent had anything abnormal (maybe egg bound or something I thought) she became aggitated and fell out of the box about a foot to the box below. She struggled a bit as I got hold...
  5. PatrickSheehan

    Why aren't my chickens laying yet?

    I just found my first egg in the coop today! My oldest hen is 32 weeks, then 5 more that are 30 weeks, then around 6 more that are 24 weeks. Not sure who laid it, but I am so excited! We've been waiting for them to start laying for months. Not sure why they took so long. They roam around during...
  6. PatrickSheehan

    3/4 of my flock turned into feathers today, any ideas what took them?

    Hi all, I just came home to find 17 out of 24 chickens missing. They all disappeared during daylight and the only thing they left behind was piles of feathers. No blood, no bodies, no body parts, just a handful of feathers in each pile. I'm pretty sad about it; whatever took them took almost...
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