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  1. jmckeon

    finally 4 for 4

    got home from work today and got a awesome surprise 4 hens 4 eggs my little hen finally caught her sisters and layed i was so happy and proud of her extra treats for them to day
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    do all roosters crow

    very curious as to if they all crow me and buddy been talking he wants to add roosters to him flock but we both live in a residential area and dont want the neighbors hating us. the neighbors all been pretty tolerant of the hens we have (we are neighbors) and we do our best to keep the smell to...
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    adding hens question

    recently was given 3 hens to me from a freind to add to mine and thin out his i have been around these birds since born and have been reading about the quarentine phase and all and how stress affects them laying but my question is how long will they stop laying for ??? i dont want them to be...
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    double yolkers??

    yah the double yolker was really neat we brought the eggs in and my wife was antsy about using them right away since she has never had fresh eggs like that(or anything not from a store) and when i cracked it open and out came 2 it was like christmas
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    new to chickens how long til i get eggs

    i got my girls in april as chicks that were about 2 weeks old and they just started laying a week ago i have heard alot of people say 25 weeks guy at the hatchery/feedstore told me about 4 months for my isa brownswhich was pretty accurate since i got them at the beginning of april
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    double yolkers??

    quick question one of my girls lay a double yolker on her first egg not sure if that was a fluke since i have not gotten a double yolker since? the 4 girls are all isa browns and i have heard that isa browns will lay double yolkers but not sure how often and when if they do any help would be...
  7. jmckeon

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    so far 2/4 that i know of and even in the heat we all been getting been getting an egg aday they just started laying last week got 2 eggs first day then none for 2 days now its been an egg aday and 2 this morning and looks like i got a thrid one getting ready to lay ( first time ever having...
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    wont use lay boxes

    update went out and put the golf balls in the boxes this morning before the girls woke up and pleasant surprise checked on them 2 hours later and one of the girls was in the box laying and another one was poking aroud a box hope she will lay for me in there also still had 1 lay on the floor...
  9. jmckeon

    wont use lay boxes

    went and got some plastic golf balls tonight gonna put them in the coop tomorrow and see if i can get them on tract to using the lay boxes
  10. jmckeon

    wont use lay boxes

    any one have any idea how i can get my girls to lay larger eggs i got them om a laying crumble plus the are out and about in the yard eating up bugs grass and i been giving them lots of treats out of the garden such as tomatoes cucumbers letuce,water mellon (they love the melons) and stuff all...
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    wont use lay boxes

    i will definately be trying that to see if it helps now as far as the egg size is this normal ??? as stated told isa browns lay large to extra large and these are mediums is it cause they just started laying or is it something im not doing?? also is there any way to get more than 1 bird to...
  12. jmckeon

    wont use lay boxes

    ok bit of a dilemma i have 4 ISA browns that just started laying last week first day i got 2 eggs from them and then went 2-3 days no egss and now been getting 1 egg consistently from them for past 4 days. my dilemma is they wont use the lay boxes at all have had them in there since they were...
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