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Ah ha. That explains it. Well, I'll just keep an eye on the situation. All the hens have laid in the coop before; maybe there's some reason I haven't figured out yet why these two have moved. Or maybe one of them will assert her self-determination and start brooding. I'd love to get an...

Aieee! There's so much I don't know! But if they aren't brooders, how do they ever hatch out chicks? Or are all Easter Eggers the product of incubators?

Thank you very much. So far they smell fine. I'm watching them closely to see if they get broody. This was a surprise because I've had them since March and until now they always laid in the coop.

Thank you so much, Welshies, for all this information. So far neither of the girls in question is brooding. I'll mark the current eggs and see what happens from here out. Both the hens are Easter Eggers (one may be fully Americauna). The eggs don't smell bad as of yet. We did remove one cracked...

My five hens (w/one rooster) have been producing two eggs on average in their nest boxes, down from three in early November. I thought this was due to the short days. Today I discover twelve eggs secreted in the fenced yard, all laid since I last looked a month or so ago. I think two of the...

Thank you, jak2002003. You're the second person on the thread who hasn't seen a rooster attack a hen over fowl pox, so the situation remains mysterious. I'm pretty sure she does have fowl pox, though. I looked really closely and it isn't just dried blood. My plan is to let her get over it and...

This hen is a year and a half, as is one other in the group. The other four hens and the rooster are a year old. All raised together. No problems before. Rooster is unusually gentle as a rule. When I cleaned out the coop after diagnosing Aries with fowl pox, the rooster got into it and watched...

Update: I found someone to take the hen but first I took a really close look at her. Saw small black specks on her comb that I hadn't noticed before. A little research and voila -- she has a mild case of fowl pox. So BigBad the Rooster was right! The hen is now convalescing in the hospital yard...

Thank you very much. I was thinking of rehoming the chicken (lotsa backyard chicken keepers here) but I'll spend some time with them first and observe her. Maybe he IS trying to tell me something.

I have one rooster and seven hens. They were hatched and raised in the same multi rooster group and have been with me for six months as a group. It's been a lovefest until 3 days ago. I LOVE the rooster, who is RIR/Americauna and has always been very gentle and terrific at watching for hawks (a...

Thanks very much, redsoxs. It'd have taken me months to figure out there was a California subsection.

We've retired and moved to Fallbrook, California -- a mecca for backyard chickens. So last month we got one young rooster (RIR/Ameraucana mix) and eight hens -- two Ameraucanas, two Wyandotes, one RIR, and three mixes. Coyotes and hawks are always looming and lurking and menacing here. The...