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All my hens are Meyers Hatchery birds. I wonder if there is any correlation.

My orpington rooster had a cold or something a month ago so I administered tetracycline to the entire flock for two weeks. He was coughing but now he is fine and I detect no sneezing or coughing from the hens. My hens have the same feather loss as Dulu shows in the pics above but I'm pretty darn...

The hens are only 9 months old. Half have never laid yet. The others started laying in Oct. The ones that stopped are EEs, CLs, and Welsummers. One BCM and one orpington are still laying albeit slowly. I won't do the light thing but it's funny that now that days are getting longer, they stopped...

In my case it's a lavender orpington who does exactly that. They have been fine with straw since they started laying back in October. But last weekend I cleaned the boxes and put in fresh straw and it made no difference to them. They pull it all out and won't lay eggs. I don't use a light or...

Thanks Aart. They were laying regularly and then suddenly stopped and this behavior began. Can't get pics till the weekend. I guess this weekend I'll scrub out the boxes and try new bedding.

Any ideas?

I have a flock of 16 hens and two roosters. Recently some of the hens started pulling all the straw out of the nest boxes even though it was put in there fresh, and this also coincided with the fact that most have stopped laying. Crazy chickens or something else? They all eat well and are...