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    HELP.

    Need advice from anyone, I went out to check for eggs and notice there was some blood on the watering can and was looking at all the hens ( I have 5 ) and my hen Cluckie was bleeding a little on her comb and then I notice that there were feathers missing around her neck. I put some vaseline on...
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    Cold Weather Approaching

    Hi Everyone, I have a few questions for anyone out there...Do the hens stay down in the run during the winter months or will they go up in the coop when they feel cold? Our coop has the run underneath and the coop area with the roost and where they lay is about 4 ft off the ground. Is that...
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    soft shells

    Does anyone know how long it will take for shells to get hard if they suddenly got soft. Today, I notice when I went out to check for eggs, that there was an egg and it was soft. I thought that the layers feed had oyster shell in it. I went out and bought 50 lbs today and gave them in a...
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    soft shells

    How soon after feeding them oyster shells will their eggs have a harder shell? Also, I thought that the feed had enough oyster shell in it to make their eggs have a hard shell, it that a misconception? Appreciate any thoughts on these questions
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    Inconsistent laying

    Hello Everyone, My hens are turning 23 weeks and I was wondering do the hens get more regular the next year of laying? My buff starting laying at 20 weeks and then the Plymouth Rock then my Barred Rock and I'm not sure if my RIR is laying yet. They were all born at the same time so their all...
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    Crazy Laying

    On the first of September my plymouth rock was making a bunch of noise and she went up to the nesting box and pretty much made a mess in the nest and returning back and forth and squawking and didn't lay an egg. So, yesterday apparently she running around and just layed the egg in the run and...
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    So, what do we all do with our first eggs?

    We took our first one today and decided to blow-out the egg and keep the shell and we'll put in a plexy glass case, to show case it.
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    Hello from SD

    My BO layed her first egg this afternoon. We decided to keep the first egg, so we blew out the egg and we're going to put it in a plexy glass casing to show it off.
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    19 and a half weeks old and still no eggs :( egg countdown anyone??

    Our hen Clucky layed her first egg this afternoon, just before 4. All of my hens will be 20 weeks tomorrow.
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    Our First Egg

    Today our beautiful hen Clucky layed her first egg and it was the cutest thing I ever witnessed. She did her little song and squawk and went up to the nest, came back down made some more noise than went back and panted a little. I was wondering how she was so I peeked inside and she was on the...
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    Good Morning from South Dakota

    Hello Everybody, Today my beautiful hens are 19 weeks and the only hen that looks ready is my Buff Orpinton. So, we're all waiting patiently.
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    So, what do we all do with our first eggs?

    how old were your hens
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    concern about my hen

    she is eating, she actually ate out of my hand. she stands funny though..like her butt is up in the air and all of her feathers are fluffed up more than usual. The top pic is today and the bottom one was take just taken aug. 1st
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    concern about my hen

    it also, looked like there was a mucus for lubrication... I think?
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    concern about my hen

    no, Just picked her up and had a towel on my lap and looked at her bottom, which she didn't seem to mind and you can easily see her vent kind of opening back and forth. So, hopefully if it was stuck wouldn't she make a lot of noise all day till it would come out?
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