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One of my 2-year-old Australorps has a slight lump ABOVE her crop on the left side of her neck. She seems fine/eats/etc., except that she hasn't laid an egg for 3 days now. She is the alpha, and our power egg producer. She skipped a couple weeks in winter, whereas my other two skipped a couple...

After reading posts on broodiness, I am certain that is what my #3 Australorp is doing. However, I have gone a few days in a row now without ANY eggs, from any of my girls. Why are the other two not laying either? #3 barely eats. I have taken her out a couple times a day to make sure she gets...

Greetings from the Plano, Tx area! My family had poultry when I was very young, but not after our first move. The one exception was when, as pre-teens, my siblings and I each had a pet chicken of a different breed. Mine was a smallish Leghorn named Sweet Pea who loved to fall asleep in my...