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    Chickens being violent towards one another? Please Help! :(

    Uh oh gang. Thanks to your help, it looks like they've mostly stopped eating poor Red, she's now healing with blue-kote.. The grower feed has worked wonders! They've actually started laying! But now it looks like they're eating their own eggs! Boo- I want to eat those eggs! What do I do? :(...
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    Oh no! Do chickens eat their OWN EGGS? :(

    Uh oh! My girls finally started laying the other day, and we were so happy! Then yesterday, there was a pecked-looking egg.. Then today, all there is is empty bits of shell :( Do I have a chicken that's eating her own eggs? They have been getting plenty of food and water, have lots of space...
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    Chickens being violent towards one another? Please Help! :(

    Wow, when I got home with the grower feed, they were laying there staring at me like I was a jerk, with a bunch of uneaten cracked corn sitting there. I gave them a bunch of grower and some sunflower seeds, and they started going crazy, eating like they were, well... starving.. poor things! I...
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    Chickens being violent towards one another? Please Help! :(

    Holy hanna!! Okay, on my way to the store right now! Thanks! b
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    Chickens being violent towards one another? Please Help! :(

    Thanks for answering! :) Firstly, I have never heard of layer feed, lol! The folks at the feed store said cracked corn and table scraps every day would be plenty of nutrition for my girls. Now I know to go get some diff. feed. And some Bluekote while I'm at it, apparently. I hope that helps.. I...
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    Greetings from Northern Nevada!

    Hi, my name is Benjamin Spence (Ben, please :) ), and I am the proud daddy of four lovely hens. This is my first go at raising backyard chickens, and this site has been an enormous help to me the past few months, even though I am only now signing up as a member. Of course, necessity drove me to...
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    Chickens being violent towards one another? Please Help! :(

    Hello all! I've been getting advice from this forum for quite a few months now, without actually being a member, and I have to say, you folks seem pretty hip when it comes to some backyard chicken raising! :) Hopefully someone can help me figure out what is going on with my pullets.... I...
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