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This is my story.
Last fall and during half of the winter I was averaging 4 eggs every 3 days. Then I was lucky enough to loose a couple of chickens not sure how, we only found one carcass. I had to put a hen down due to Meric's (sp) disease, it was the hardest thing for me to do. My last three hens are fine health wise (I think), we went out a bought two more chickens. The seller was sure the two that we picked were hens; so off we went happy as can be. My wife elated that she has some more feather footed fends for our little flock, several weeks later our little hens started to crow.
So now we have 3 rosters, 3 hens and NO eggs. So my question is what could be the problem. I am thinking that there is to much turmoil with so few hens with the amount of roosters. We do have 14 hens coming in late June.
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Last fall and during half of the winter I was averaging 4 eggs every 3 days. Then I was lucky enough to loose a couple of chickens not sure how, we only found one carcass. I had to put a hen down due to Meric's (sp) disease, it was the hardest thing for me to do. My last three hens are fine health wise (I think), we went out a bought two more chickens. The seller was sure the two that we picked were hens; so off we went happy as can be. My wife elated that she has some more feather footed fends for our little flock, several weeks later our little hens started to crow.
So now we have 3 rosters, 3 hens and NO eggs. So my question is what could be the problem. I am thinking that there is to much turmoil with so few hens with the amount of roosters. We do have 14 hens coming in late June.
Help