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I've had this hen about a year and she was laying when I got her. I have no roosters. For the past 2 days she is always on the nest, keeping the other 7 from getting to it (they all like to lay in the same nest ???) She pecks at us when we try to move her. Is she becoming broody? Since there...

When I checked the hen house this AM I found what looked like a medium sized egg covered with wet tissue paper and a sack of egg-white on the outside. It also had a little red "stick" protruding out of the small end. I have no roosters, so this was from a "girl flock". Sorry, but I threw it...

I recently bought some year old hens from a man in my county that sells eggs. I noticed, when I got home, their beaks looked "stubby" and I could see their little pointed tongues when they drank or ate. Am I describing a chicken that has been "debeaked"?

Just about the time I expected my babies to start laying, at the end of the summer, they all stopped laying. Nothing - Nada- no eggs at all from 10 hens all well over 24 weeks. It went on like that till Thanksgiving, then started getting 1 medium egg every 2 or 3 days. Well, for the last...

I have a 7 month old Amerecuna hen that has been slowly getting weaker than others bought at the same time. Both wing tips are sagging, almost to the ground. She is visabily smaller than the others, and doesn't venture far from the coop when I let them out in the morning. 1 of the 6 has...

This Ameracuna hen is about 6 months old & not laying yet. She is the smallest of 3 Ameracuna's I bought as babies. Since August, I have lost 2 other hens with similar symtoms. She is listless, both wing tips are drooping and she doesn't go out with the others to forage. What am I facing...

I bought 3 Buff Orph babies at the Feed Store in April, so they are about 5 months old. I wonder if Dolly will be Doug at maturity just because tail feathers look different than other 2. I've heard no crowing at all, but only 1 of the Ameracuna's from the Feed Store group has started laying...

I have an EE that has been laying 4 nice big eggs every week since April. Big Eggs! Like 2 ounces big. Now, I also have these 2 Amereacuna's that I raised from babies that are about 17 weeks old. Sooo, today DH finds a "bigger than small" egg laid in the middle of the chicken yard! Since my...

My flock is different ages. The 3, year old hens all started laying about 4 eggs a week as soon as I brought them home. There was little slow down when I moved them to their full size pen & house, or when I added a covered dog x-pen with little peeps. That all started in April. Now they...

I've had this hen about 4 months. She was said to be less than a year old when I bought her in May, and she has been laying nice big brown eggs since she got here. Then suddenly, she quit laying, about 10 days ago. That was a day or so after I put Oyster shell in the pen for the first time...

While looking through my new EggCartons.com catalogue, I found something called an "Earth Friendly Fountain", made by Little Giant. You recycle a 10 oz. up to a 2 liter size soda pop or water bottle by screwing on a Stainless Steel tube that is similar to a gerbil or bunny water bottle nozzle...

I've had these hens about a month and have been getting about 5 eggs a week from the green-egg layer. I have no roosters! This morning when hubby broke the eggs to scramble, there was a bloody spot, like it had been fertilized. Any suggestions about what may have caused it? The egg was...

I bought 3 hens about 6 months old about 8 days ago. The next day I got a white egg from the Miorica (Sp?). The next day and almost every day since, I have gotten a light blue egg from the Americana. But so far, nothing but squawking from the biggest and oldest hen, the Cochin (should be a...