Thanks for your help. At least now I know they haven't retired permanently. The chicken house has an elevated floor;wooden slats a foot above deep sand. i removed one of the floor panels so they could get down there to clean their feathers in the sand, and a few weeks later, my wife...
Holy moly, that's a lot of information. I'm having a similar problem with 11 hens. They are all about nine or ten months old. We currently get two jumbo brown eggs, which I am certain are being laid by our two sex-linked golden hens. The other two eggs are white, which could be coming from...
We live in North Idaho, but the winter was very mild. We have 11 hens of various breeds, and all but 4 of them quit laying. We got them all as chicks last May, so they're young, and we're new at this. Will they begin laying again? Is this normal? Is there anything we can do to get them back...
This is Lola, a little hen that I picked out of the Ancona bin at our Big R store last May. She is almost the exact opposite of our two Ancona hens. She is one of the friendliest while her sisters are the most standoffish. They are black and she is white. I looked at all of the breeds listed...