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    Eggs

    Anyone know why some of the shells are smooth and some are bumpy? All chickens eat the same food. Thanks
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    Dead Chicken

    Thank you for your answers. We heard yesterday from a person who used to have chickens that every so often she would lose a couple due to the heat. And its been hot! And then there were 3.........chickens left.
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    Dead Chicken

    We feed them crumbler from the feed company, oyster shells and kitchen scraps and for a year they were healthy and produced well.
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    Dead Chicken

    We had to butcher one chicken due to a prolapse and it was a lost cause, did everything we could and knew the others would bully her in their yard and we couldn't get the prolapse to get back in and there was white fluid dripping. Then another chicken apparently had an egg stuck, it broke and...
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    Need Help!!!

    Thank you for the info. I just read on an earlier post someone used honey? and it worked? Is this safe?
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    Need Help!!!

    Something is hanging out, now that we cleaned her up and if prolapse is what I am thinking, that's what it probably is if its an organ hanging there. She doesn't even know anything is wrong. She's eating, drinking, and walking around when I let her out of a little doggy cage we have to keep...
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    Need Help!!!

    Need help!!! Back of chicken is bloody and looks like its been pecked at, bloody and gross tissue. She is separated with food and water and seems fine. Has a lump on her back and once in a while when an egg won't be laid, they get a lump on their back (like a camel) and an super duper egg is...
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    Chicken play time

    Ok~ here is a good one. If you were a chicken and sat around all day, would you not get bored? How much time does eating and laying eggs take? We have a coop, 5 chickens and a large enclosed pen that they love. We are getting 5-6 eggs a day. They love the treats that we give them. I know...
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    Eggs

    Found out from the breeder. Hormones are the likely cause for soft shelled eggs. The problem will sort itself out in time as the chickens get older.
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    Eggs

    Finally our new chickens produced an egg and 1/2 but they are soft and have no hard shell. Feed is standard from a bag with goodies given every day. Is this normal? Do they harden up? They look weird.
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