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One gal has a dirty bum. Acts healthy as can be, eats, dust bathes, is super friendly...I've put her on Corrid.

To follow up to this, it has happened again twice this week. Just like last time every other egg is perfect. There is yolk on the perfect eggs and a condom like membrane in the box. I don't know which girl is laying the shell-less eggs, but I'm assuming it's one of the younger hens. This has...

Yikes!

Hahaha... Yeah. I'm pretty laid back, I guess. My girls are healthy and happy. Are on layer feed and have access to oyster shell. Plus, they get treats each day in the form of left over parrot food. I'd stress if they ALL suddenly had funky eggs!

I'm thinking that you are absolutely right. My new girls are just figuring it out. No big deal.

I don't have a picture, but I'm thinking this post belongs here? I had a girl lay an egg today that had no shell. All the other eggs in the nestbox were covered in yolk and there was a small clump of rubbery membrane in the box that I'm assuming was the "shell". Every other egg from my girls is...

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These are hensane! Really clucking funny!

I believe the wait time is five days. We are dosing our girls with Baytril right now in their water. Two in the flock have a respiratory infection. We'll be tossing all the eggs for a few weeks.Pains me to do it. Especially as our Cuckoo Marans are just beginning to lay. If ALL...

That's awesome!

Awesome! Is it typical to molt in the winter?

[/IMG] And the chickens are all doing okay together. Still hang out as two flocks most of the time, but sleep all mixed together on the roost.

One of the pullets laid an egg yesterday! I'm so proud. There hasn't been an egg that small in the coop for a year. :-)

This past weekend my neighbor's chickens got attacked by a dog. The noise and ruckus coming from a half mile away was heartbreaking. The only chickens that survived were able to fly to the top of the coop building or into trees. I know this is a discussion about yard containment, but if you...

Yikes! Your poor girls. No blood so far. We ended up taking the big girls out of the coop for two nights and putting them in the goat pen to try and make them less territorial of the coop. It sure made the pullets happy. Today they reintegrated. I've given the pullets plenty of places to hide...

So no need to separate out the flocks? In a way that seems like just postponing the inevitable. They have to work out their own hierarchy regardless of what I do to stop them. (If separating them will help, though, I'm willing to try it.)

I've spoken to the hubs at work about dividing the coop and it isn't an easy endeavor... I've also spent the whole day in the coop with the girls. The lowest girl on the pecking order is the nastiest to them.She will be placidly doing her thing and just run over and peck one, then go back to...

I just checked again. All is calm in the coop. The new girls are all on perches looking out the window. The other girls are out in the run or in nest boxes. They may have taken elevated positions because they feel safer but there is a calm vibe. I am going to monitor very very closely all day...

Thanks! Maybe move them back to the goats pen until I can partition the main coop. I don't want chicken drama!

They outgrew the look don't touch pen...hence the overnight introduction. I might partition off the main coop to make it easier. I had read, in BYC, that overnight introductions, were the way to go so I was hoping it would go without a hitch.