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    Weird egg

    Sorry no pics but I cracked open an odd egg this morning. It looked normal on the outside but the inner membrane seemed very thick. Also, there was no egg 'white', just a large yolk that was a little more brown than yellow. Anyone ever seen anything like this? I'm not going to worry about it...
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    Anyone ever bought "used" battery birds?

    There's a guy locally selling 18 month old, molting, Golden Comets for $4/ea. I would think they would have pretty decent production still and supposedly have had all their vaccinations and whatever else production chickens get. Never really thought of doing this sort of thing but it would be an...
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    3.58oz egg. Yikes

    Title says it all. Kinda shocking how big this thing is. Not even sure if it's considered 'a big one' but it's pretty ginormous to me.
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    WOO HOO!! First egg(s)

    Nine girls. 6@ 18.5weeks(3-Golden Comets & three Amber Links) and 3@ 17.5 weeks( 1 each BR, WR and Red Star) Checked on them at lunch and found three nice little eggs and all the girls squawking. Probably one small and two mediums. I'm guessing I'm somewhere around $100/egg at this point but...
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    Seaweed?

    I brought some home from a fresh water lake yesterday, about a cereal bowl full for eleven 8 week olds. All they did was stare at it but after dinner I went to check on them and it was all gone. Every last bit so I'm wondering if I should bring them more.
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    Do regular breeds, like Plymouth Rocks, grow slower?

    Mine seem to be growing slower than my Amber Links and Golden Comets. They will end up heavier and wider and from what I can tell won't lay until quite a bit later so I'm just wondering if the other birds just have fast growth bred into them. On another front I'm trading my BR rooster for a...
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    Runt chicken?

    Is there such a thing? I have three BR's in my flock. About 2.5 weeks old. One of them doesn't seem to be growing. She's(I hope) getting her feathers at about the same rate as her cousins but she's much smaller. I let the temp in the brooder room get down to 64f about a week ago. The rest of the...
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