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I have found that the quality of food I buy affects egg production. Once I tried a cheaper feed and my girls stopped laying. I went back to the better quality feed and I got eggs again.

Thanks for your reply. Hopefully you're right and it will just take time. This is the first time I've bought pullets. In the past I've always purchased day-old chicks, so they were not afraid of me.

Have you changed the food recently? Once I switched to a cheaper feed and my hens stopped laying. When I went back to the more expensive feed I got eggs again. Learned my lesson!

Six days ago I purchased five Buckeye pullets and joined them with my one-year-old Barred Plymouth Rock. The BPR has been alone for two months since we had a racoon problem that killed her five sisters. We spent quite a bit of money fortifying the run to make it iron-clad, then brought these new...

The law in my city is that livestock has to be 50 feet from your home and 50 feet from your neighbors property. I live in a suburb where houses are very close together so I think this law is leftover from when there were mainly farms here - no more! Since my property is so narrow, there is no...

A friend of mine who is a restaurant/food inspector said that it's okay to leave them out, but if you put them in the fridge, keep them in the fridge. Do not leave refridgerated eggs sitting on the counter. I think she said a change in temperature could cause some kind of bacteria to grow. We...

The chicken wire sounds easy. I'll try that. Thanks everyone for all the advice!

Thanks! I will do that! This forum is so great.

That's a good idea. Have you done this? What material have you used to make a cover? Maybe some kind of plastic? Nothing creative comes to mind right now but it is late and my brain isn't working well!

Hello, this is my first post. We've had six golden comets since last spring and we get about five eggs per day. I am wondering if there is a way to stop them from wasting so much food. I have a 7lb baby pig feeder attached to the wall of the coop at about their back height. I notice that...