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I'm having the same problem.5 laying hens and got only 4 eggs last week. No predator problem. someone suggested parasites and ill follow up on that. This is something I have not encountered before.

Bee keeping is hard work sometimes for little gain. Thanks for responding.

Well, they have good quality feed, clean water and calcium and the weather (here n Oregon) has cooled down. I think I'm going to worm them and see how that goes. Thanks for the response.

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How old is he?

Thanks for letting me know. Ill pay more attention to the dates!

That's actually a nice looking coop. Dig or cut out the rotten wood and replace it with composite wood/plastic it might take some effort but you will never have to replace it again. we built our entire coop out of found lumber. Its 11 years old the gate is just now starting to get wobbly to...

I just used the last of my spring 2022 glasses eggs, They are best used scrambled or for baking but not one went bad.

W Just curious. Why wouldn't you try to over winter? If you succeed you'll have two (free) hives next spring. If not your hens can eat the dead bees next year. Win. Win.

Poss Possums don't eat chickens. They will take eggs.

You are right she is miserable and determined that everyone else be miserable. Bottom line, she needs a reminder that she can't trap and sell your property. Inform her that you have some rare and valuable breeding birds and if she steals them you will have no alternative but to take her to...

I'd make a case for revising the current rules to reflect modern urban chicken keeping trends.

we added 4 hens to our flock of three about 3 weeks ago.Two of the new girls aren't laying yet. All was well, 4-5 egg s a day. Then, since about two weeks ago, only two hens are laying. We got 4 eggs in the past 7 days. All our hens are young though one appears to be starting A molt. Any...

There is a long and pretty funny story to go with this but the end is that one of our 6 Wilco Farm Store hens hatched 4/19 is a roo. I might have considered this sooner if he had ever crowed but all his vocalizations (so far) have been lady chicken sounds. Aside from this being the most...

I find the transparent roofing make the run to hot in summer. If you have a Habitat for humanity store or an up cycling store check them out I got 5 of the six sheets of corrugated tin I needed for $2.50 a sheet at habitat. I built my coop out of reclaimed 4x4 cedar and crate material I got...

A very robust lady!

I give all my incubator chicks 1:1 active culture yogurt: chick food once a day for the first three days. Never have had a reoccurance of pasty butt. Lost only one chick in the past five years. Also give ACV.

Chicks can an do sleep when ever the urge hits them. They do seem to eat more aand grow faster than chicks being raised by a hen with the 24/7 light. They can't "eat themselves to death".

Agree with above. Especially about giving her a friend. My broody has a three day window between the first hatching and abandoning any unhatched eggs. It's biological.

If you got them at the feed store there could be up to a week difference in their ages. Ameracaunas as also larger birds. All our 6 chicks were hatched by our broody 3/14-3/15 they a assorted breeds, the rooster in all cases was a Wellsummer. The two that hatched from blue eggs (and have ear...