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She was vaccinated and none of the other chickens came down sick with this. I did not take her to the vet. We just got advice and medicine from him based on what we told him her symptoms were. She could hold her head up for a short time so I don't think it was fractured or broken. She would have...

I thought I'd reply with an update. I should have done it sooner. We treated the hen as suggested for wry neck. We gave her the liquid vitamins and focused on a good diet. We isolated her in a nice coop to herself with a heat lamp. It was very cold here in mid Michigan. We spoke to our vet who...

THANK YOU SO MUCH! We'll get some vitamins from the vet tomorrow. I have all the food items you mentioned on hand. She is isolated in her own coop so hopefully none of the other chickens will get it. I've never heard of such a condition. Glad I asked here. Will let you know if she gets over it.

No sure what happened but found the hen in the run with her head hanging down and moving side to side. She doesn't pick her head up. She can't stay up on the rungs of the ladder. Picked her up and at first thought her neck was broken. Put her in isolation in a roomy coop inside the barn. Husband...

We have had temps down as low as 15 below zero. When it got to about 10 degrees we put one of those red heat lamps on the chickens. Their coop is inside a barn so they are out of the wind. They have a heated waterer and are fed twice a day. They huddle under the heat lamp. With temps that cold I...

This broody hen does get off the nest and eats and drinks and runs around a bit then gets right back on the nest. The last time I let a hen set on eggs she hatched out 9 chicks. Six of them turned out to be roosters. I suppose I could isolate her with a couple eggs and let her set on them and...

I have a silver laced Wyandotte who is approximately 7 months old. She has been broody every since the flock started laying eggs back in April. She allows the other hens to lay their eggs then she hops on and sits. I realize hens can go broody but this one seems to have been born broody and is...

We feed our hens a lot of table scraps in addition to their layer mash. This is food that we would be throwing out anyway. They love things like a little fat off the edge of a steak or the ends of celery or broccoli leaves etc. This helps cut down how much they eat. Also, when the weather is...

I had a hen go broody last summer. We had no roosters so I borrowed 10 eggs from a neighbor who did have roosters. She sat on them and hatched out 9 baby chicks out of the ten eggs. We had fun watching her raise the babies. Took lots of pictures. Fed them and loved them only to find out that 6...

Today one of my golden comets laid her first egg. She's 26 weeks old. THe strange thing is it was another golden comet who laid the first egg at 16 weeks so I'm not sure breed of chicken makes a difference ???? Anyway, she was so proud of herself she just had to run outside the coop and crow...

We put our pullets on laying mash at around 14 weeks I think. The first pullet started laying at 16 weeks. By the way, she did not have a comb hardly at all on top of her head so I don't know what that has to do with maturity ???

Congratulations! I have one light brahma who has not laid yet. She is 20 1/2 weeks old. They must be late bloomers. She's the biggest hen I own too. My husband had a talk with her and told her she was slacking since the tiniest bird (golden comet) was the first to lay at 16 weeks.

Since I last posted we have more hens laying. We're getting seven eggs a day. We have 12 birds. This morning two of the eggs we broke open for breakfast were double yolkers! I can't believe it. We have all 6 of the golden comets laying now and one RIR.

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In addition to our golden comet who laid her first egg at 16 weeks we now have two rhode island reds laying an egg a day. They started laying at 18 weeks. Someone was laying her egg on the floor in the corner so we put in a plastic milk crate with hay in it and she now lays her eggs in that. The...

reed of hen- Golden Comet Age in weeks when she laid- 16 weeks. She has laid one egg a day so far. If you have more than one of that breed, did they all start laying around the same time?- No. None of the rest have started laying yet. Their ages now are 17 weeks. We have half a dozen RIR's the...