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Great advice on stress and egg production.

We have 3 Buff Orpington hens which have been with us for 5 or so years and an easter egger hen which we have had for about 3 years. We just (a sale from a local farmer) added 4 small barnyard hybrid hens and a roo. They have integrated well but we no longer get eggs from anyone...Any ideas?

Thanks everyone. We have checked the wire and are continuing to look for holes. We have put out a camera and a trap. Will let you know. Didn't mention it before but it seems odd that whatever it id does not bother the larger birds, just the silkies. But the silkies never like to roost. Perhaps...

Thanks. We have a camera out now.

Thanks. We have a camera out now. The attacks are always at night.

Help please. We recently added 4 young silkies to our flock of 10 hens and 1 non aggressive rooster. Our birds are enclosed in appropriate fencing buried in the ground and doubled 18 inches up, about 8 feet tall and enclosed on the top. One by one something attacked our silkies and we found them...

Help please. We recently added 4 young silkies to our flock of 10 hens and 1 non aggressive rooster. Our birds are enclosed in appropriate fencing buried in the ground and doubled 18 inches up, about 8 feet tall and enclosed on the top. One by one something attacked our silkies and we found them...

Have 9 chicks of mixed breeds 8-9 weeks old. Noticed symptoms (swollen normal color tissue around eye) The eye itself became swollen and bulged. The chick had bloody dirreah overnight and died. The other chicks are now showing the same symptoms around eyes and one seems weak.Until now they have...

Thanks, Fred's hens. I bought some laying mash a month or so ago and they did not seem to like it. Used it as scratch with the corn and went back to the pellets. Maybe the feeding is the problem. I will try your suggestions. They sound pretty on target. And, perhaps the very hot weather and lack...

I feed them laying pellets and throw in some cracked corn late in the day for a treat. I have begun (for a week or so )to offer oyster shell with the pellets. They free range for part of the day, maybe a couple of hours. they seem to get along ok. There us an easter egger who is tired of the...

I have 5 hens and 1 rooster. I added two of the hens about a month ago. Had been told they were laying. My other three continued to lay normally and the new ones began to lay now and then. However, their production has not been consistent and now someone (one of the new ones I am pretty sure) is...

Many thanks, guys! Will look into the saddle and getting more hens is probably a good idea. Also wondering is it simply the nature of easter eggers to be docile?

Need help from someone more experienced. I have 5 hens and 1 (not too fast) rooster with a limp. All get along pretty well socially but my rooster prefers two of the hens to the others. One hen likes his attention. One little easter egger hates it. One can stand up for herself. Two can run...

Thanks for the response. The hen is about 7 months old. She does not have bumble foot. I checked. She has always has sort o scaley legs with some slight feathering. She is a genetic mix so am not sure about all that, but she has what looks like scrapes on both legs, much worse on one than the...

One of my hens started limping a few days ago. Her legs appear to have small blood spots on them, but there is no obvious bleeding. At first she limped on left only. Today she is limping on both legs and another hen acts agressive toward her. Help? I am new to this.