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    Pale Yokes...!!

    Thank you all for you replies I will definately try all your suggestions. Will now try answering your questions.... I have 8 Rhode Island Red X White Leghorn. 7 of them are nearly 2 years old the other 1 still a chick. I am feeding them Barastoc Golden Yolk morning & night. They regulary have...
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    Pale Yokes...!!

    Hi all, This has probably been asked a million times but can somebody please help..!! I buy my chickens the best organic layer pellets, they have lots of fresh veg & fruit as well as free ranging around my back yard. BUT the yokes are terribly pale. Didn't realise how pale until I had given...
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    ll,Egg Eating

    Hi all, Thanks for the advise I got for u all about my "girls" eating their eggs.... Blew an egg out & filled the shell with VERY hot English mustard.....little buggers ate it !!! so...Crushed up shell & mixed it with bird seed....????? Cause that didn't work.. Please any more ideas...will...
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    Egg Eating

    That is bad news.......... About 3 weeks ago I gave a broody hen a chick, all this was great until I caught her & the chick eating the egg she layed.......!!!!!! Will this mean I'll have another canibal in my roost.....???????????
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    Egg Eating

    HELP......!!!!!!! My girls are eating the eggs....! Thought it may have been only one of them but it appears that they are all into it... They eat only the yolk & white, leaving the shell.. So far the only way I can save eggs is on the week-end when I am at home. Even then I have to be quick...
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    How Did You Discover BYC?

    Hi all, I found the site when I first bought my girls home. Thought I knew all about keeping chickens from the banties we had as kids...! Was I wrong especially when I got a really deformed egg. Posted the pic a couple of months ago & recieved replies straight away. I started out with 4 Rhode...
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    Deformed egg

    Hi..it's really exciting when they first start laying. I had a fantastic layng box all ready, but never found an egg. Until one day my son found 10 eggs under an old metal drum....!! We even had 2 eggs that were joined together end to end. Felt sorry for the hen that layed that egg..!!
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    Deformed egg

    Thanks you for setting my mind at rest.... Was worried that one of my girls were sick. When you say let it dry out ...do you mean, blow out the yolk ???
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    Deformed egg

    This is the picture of my egg. Hope it works.
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    Deformed egg

    Hi, I am reasonably new to keeping chickens. But get so much pleasure from my girls that I wished I had started yrs ago. Yesterday when collecting my eggs was astounded by the little deformed egg that one of them has layed. About 2inches long but it bends around like a u shape. Has dimples of...
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