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oyster shell...ok thanks so much!

What kind of food would supply them with calcium? Can I just dissolve some regular calcium supplements into their water? Also, I have not noticed any broken egg shells; however, one egg yesterday was abnormally small. Thanks again!

Thank you!! Sorry my response was so late, I was expecting an email when I received responses. They eat cracked corn and pellets. New England weather is always changing. I tried to put her in a warm bath for a while and it helped, but she still didn't pass her egg. Her cloaca was bleeding from...

Last week we lost one chicken and two weeks before that we lost another one. (We have one RR rooster and now 6 RR hens.) Both had bleeding cloacas. Yesterday another hen was suddenly bleeding from her cloaca and she kept trying to lay an egg, pushed, made a squeek, and couldn't. She was in a lot...