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Okay --- now I'm gonna sound like a new mother. Please be patient with my worries! We now have 5 hens. Before India died we were getting 5 eggs a day (for the 2 days preceeding her death). I assumed after the fact that she was the non-layer. Now we've gotten 4/day for the 2 days since she's...

Thanks so much for your reply. (My daughter is heartbroken... it was the first hen named and her favorite. She's a softie for anything living!) I'm reading through the article, thank you so much. A friend of mine with an urban farm says that she crunches up egg shells and feeds them to the...

Hello everyone. We became backyard chicken keepers one week ago when we welcomed 6 layers of unknown age into our backyard. One hen seemed older than the others (by a description found in our trusty book) and at first was picked on by another hen. She spent the first day hiding in the coop but...