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    Sick Chicken!

    We found this girl just laying in the run, closing her eyes a lot. Yesterday she sounded hoarse but haven’t really heard her today yet. We isolated her and put some Vetrx in her water, thinking it’s respiratory due to her purple comb. Any thoughts on what we could do for her? She’s 2 years old.
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    Soft Egg Issues- Need Advice Please!

    Photo is of a rubbery, shell-less egg.
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    Soft Egg Issues- Need Advice Please!

    We have had multiple chickens lay soft or shell-less eggs lately. We have two flocks (2 years old and 10 months old) and hens from both flocks have had issues with this in the last several weeks or so. We were feeding them all flock feed with calcium on the side but switched back to a layer feed...
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    All Flock Higher Protein Feed vs. Layer Feed

    We were using layer feed for our hens until we got baby chicks. We then switched all of them to starter/grower feed and supplemental calcium is always available. Now that all of the hens are laying we are trying to decide if we should switch them all over to layer feed or stay with a higher...
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    Which hen layed this? Lavender Orpington or Silver Laced Wyndadotte?

    I’m not sure which of our new girls laid this: does it look like a Lavender Orpington egg or one from a Silver Wynadotte? Thanks!
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    Chicken ate a big strip of plastic!

    One of our girls just slurped down a strip of plastic while free ranging….approximately five or so inches long and a couple of inches wide. How concerned should we be? Is there anything we need to do?
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    Any reason NOT to add some sand to our wood chips in the run?

    Looking for some other ideas to help cool the girls off in the run and heard sand can help.
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    Love this waterer for our chicks!

    This is the one we use! We love it and it can be heated for the winter. Can also change out the nipples to use the cups (or use both in the summer like we do) :)
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    Love this waterer for our chicks!

    No! No mess at all!
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    Love this waterer for our chicks!

    We tried this nipple waterer with our 11 day old chicks and they took right to it! We used the red nipple and they did great! So happy! No more dirty waterer that needs to be changed several times a day! This will also make the transition to the outside coop so much easier as my big girls use a...
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    Baby chicks just want to be held!

    We got 3 baby chicks today: they are 8 days old. All of them LOVE being held and chirp and try to jump to us when we put them back in the brooder. It’s really cute but this is very different than our last batch of chicks who hid under the heat plate when we tried to pick them up. They love to be...
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    Looking for breed recommendations to add to our flock of 5

    Chicks :)
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    Looking for breed recommendations to add to our flock of 5

    There is a feed store near us that allows purchases of any number of chicks.
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    Looking for breed recommendations to add to our flock of 5

    We currently have a Buff Orpington, Speckled Sussex, Golden Laced Wyandotte, Rhode Island Red & Black Australorp. We’d like to add two more to the flock of different breeds. A couple that we are considering are Lavender Orpington & Barred Rock. Any thoughts?
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    Is the Lavender Orpington considered a heritage breed?

    I’m wondering if the Lavender Orpington is a heritage breed? Thank you!
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