Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. I sure do hope that it is just a break in laying and that they are not ill. I want to get some new chicks in the spring and I hope they don't get sick from the "old girls". I will just have to keep watching them, and keep them separate as long as I can or...
I have been keeping chickens for quite a few years now and enjoy them. I started with buff orpingtons and wanted to breed some but the roosters I ended up with were always so aggressive that I gave them away. I would still like to have some babies but the roosters always end up just tearing me...