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I have two 1 year old chickens who were laying eggs regularly. About three weeks ago, they stopped laying eggs though. I was told that I over fed them and they got too fat, which causes them to stop laying eggs. How much should I be feeding the chickens per day? I used to just put their food...

I want to allow my 7 week old chicks to run through our yard, but they keep running to our neighbor's yard and she's not very happy about it. Is there a way I can teach them to stop running into her yard?

Well I guess you can tell I'm new to chickens then :)

I'm not upset about the green egg, just a bit confused :)

I put up pictures. Can you tell anything by them?

The Americuana is only 5 weeks old. Isn't it too young to lay eggs?

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What do you mean by "bearded" ?

We have 2 rhode island reds that are 1 year old each. We also have an americuana, olive egger, and a silver laced wyandotte, all of which are 5 weeks old. We got the rhode island reds yesterday, today they both layed and egg. One was brown, and the other green. Is it normal for a rhode island...

Is it okay for chicks to eat adult chicken pellets? My 1 1/2 month old chicks are with the hens now, and I don't know how to make sure that the chicks eat chick starter feed and the hens eat chicken pellets. Any suggestions?

Are olive eggers good egg layers?

How can I make my chicks trust me? I give them treats in my hand, and now they're not afraid of my hand but they still don't trust me to hold them.

I'm new with chickens, so when I was reading information about raising chicks, it said that they need grit to help process they're food. I didn't realize that "Grit" and "Grits" were two completely different things, so I found our box of uncooked grits and gave some to them. (The chicks are only...