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    31 week old hens still not laying...what's the deal?

    We have about 23 hens that will be 32 weeks old on november the 7th and none of them are laying. There are 3 roosters the same age running with them...only one has started crowing that I know of. They have been on 16% laying pellets for a couple weeks now. They have laying boxes..currently...
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    HELP! egg bound hen?

    We have never had any problems with our chickens before and it seems like everything is going wrong all at once
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    HELP! egg bound hen?

    Her abdomen is very extended and firm and looks very bruised. Soaked her in a warm Epsom salt bath. She is very uncomfortable and won't eat or drink. we are at a lost and don't know what to do
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    Chick with leg problems..Perosis?

    The chick has a place on the back of its hock...it looks scabed over but not sure what caused it ubless the hen did it.
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    Chick with leg problems..Perosis?

    We don't have any elecrotrolytes but gave them sugar water when we got them warmed up...it's acting fine just has a swollen twisted leg. Had some tell me they think it's perosis...we have saved many cold abandoned chicks but have never had one with a leg like this. It's left leg is swollen twice...
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    Chick with leg problems..Perosis?

    We found this chick this evening about dead with another chick. When we got them warmed up and active we notice this one had a twisted leg. The nest this chick was in started hatching the night before last (Wednesday the 23rd) and the hen just brought then out of the nest today. The chicks leg...
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    Egg bound?

    It was all around her vent and in that area. I read both of the links. We will be keeping a close eye on the rest of the hens. We weren't home when this happened and she was fine when I had checked on her earlier in the day. She was one of our favorites.
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    Egg bound?

    Yes I could feel one inside her. She had a lot of blood on her to. We feed a mix that a local feed store mixes. No we don't have oyster shells out but we plan on getting some. The girls in the cages haven't started laying yet. All the others are free range tho we are trying to get them in a pen...
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    Egg bound?

    We come home to find one of our young hens (not even a 1 year old yet) dead in her cage. I think she was egg bound...is there a way to prevent it? Or at least help prevent it? This would have been her first egg. Sorry if this is in the wrong place for this post.
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    Hen laying 2 eggs

    Oh and it's 2 eggs at one time...not at different times during the day
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    Hen laying 2 eggs

    Today one of our hens laid 2 eggs. I had already collected 2 eggs from the same spot (chickens are free range and 5 or 6 hens lay in this spot every day) I was keeping an eye on the spot this hen had been hanging around for awhile and when she finally got in the nest she stayed for quite a while...
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