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    Golden Comets

    Our best layers so far have been the Leghorns and the Easter Eggers. Trouble with the Leghorns is if they free range they have no camouflage. Also, once warm weather hits they love to sleep in trees which in turn makes all the other chickens want to sleep in trees. That worries me. Our...
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    When do Easter Eggers start laying?

    Ahhhh! How exciting! Our Easter Eggers will be 16 weeks this Saturday. Woo Hoo! I thought our Leghorn was supposed to lay first (she hatched the same day). That means the EE's may their first eggs while I'm on vacation. One thing they did start doing last week was roosting in the trees...
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    How long before they lay eggs?

    My Easter Egger is my least productive chicken and her eggs have gotten smaller for some reason. The Barred Plymouth Rocks are the best layers and produce the largest eggs. The Speckled Sussex are laying very small eggs with very thick membranes. Their eggs used to be much bigger. I wonder...
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    When do Easter Eggers start laying?

    We got EE as babies in April one year and they laid their first egg on Christmas Eve. The following year the same exact thing happened. This year we got chicks born on March 1st. Hoping they will lay sooner although the Leghorn's frill looks much more mature than the Easter Eggers'.
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    Hard shells and thick membranes

    We, too, have noticed thick membranes. The Barred Plymouth Rocks and the Easter Egger eggs are fine but the eggs from the Speckled Sussex all have thick membranes. The only solution I can see is to make scrambled eggs from them as you can not get an intact yolk for an over easy egg.
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    Why did she lay a very small egg today?

    Our Easter Egger recently started laying small eggs. First she stopped laying for about two weeks. I thought she was eating her eggs and was watching her like a hawk. Then about two weeks later she laid a teeny tiny egg. Her eggs are a big larger now but not as large as they used to be. We...
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    Almost all yolk.

    Eating cholesterol does not cause high cholesterol. Eating too many highly refined carbs does. The high cholesterol theory is old science and has been disproven. I'm sure the drug companies don't want you to know that and neither do doctors who get nice little percs from selling cholesterol...
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    What do you think are the top ten best pet chickens?

    We started our little chicken family with two Buff Orpingtons and two Speckled Sussex. When one of the BO's went broody I tried everything to get her to stop but she was persistent. She disappeared one night, leaving a trail of feathers. :-( Our other BO hopped the fence and got her neck...
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