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    Hen Laying Soft Shelled Eggs and Acting Sick?

    Update! The local pharmacy only had calcium carbonate, I gave her 1 pill yesterday and 1 today and she seems to be doing better! She's not 100%, she still lays down more often and is moving a bit slower. She hasn't laid an egg yet, but I'm just glad she didn't lay another soft shelled egg. Here...
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    Hen Laying Soft Shelled Eggs and Acting Sick?

    Oh that's a relief to hear! I was worried she was done for, she acts so miserable for a few hours and then she's relatively normal again. She really does feel bad. I gave her 1000mg of D3 but I'll pick up some calcium citrate ASAP. Should I feed that today or should I wait until tomorrow? Not...
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    Hen Laying Soft Shelled Eggs and Acting Sick?

    Hi BYC! I'm a new chicken owner, I've had 6 chickens for about a month. I'm having an issue with my chicken Philomena who is about 25/6 weeks old and is laying eggs. I first noticed 3 days ago that she laid a soft-shelled egg inside the coop during the night, it was a deformed looking egg that...
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    New chicken with grey eyes - possible Marek's?

    Hi BYC! It took us a while but my family and I finally got chickens! We bought 6 point of lay pullets from a chicken supplier here in Ireland about 3 days ago. I noticed that one of the bluebells (I think they're more commonly called blue plymouth rocks) has greyish eyes. At first I thought it...
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    Coop Ventilation

    I'm not the construction expert on this project, my partner's dad is doing 99% of the building. You can't see it in the pic but there's multiple rows of screws with washers keeping the plastic roof in place. The coop also survived storm Éowyn (one of the strongest wind storms in Ireland to...
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    Coop Ventilation

    Here's a photo of the coop roof. We thought we were being smart, we just built a greenhouse as well so we used some extra panels for the roof! :hmm It was a sunny day yesterday and it was a good few degrees warmer inside the coop, I just went to get this picture on a cloudy day and there's...
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    Coop Ventilation

    Hi BYC! I live in Ireland and we've been working on building ourselves a chicken coop and run for 4-6 chickens. Here's a photo of our setup, we were originally going to use an old dog run, but due to space and safety concerns we're building them a run (hardware cloth going in soon). But I did...
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    Hi!

    Hi BYC! My name is Maddy and Iive in Ireland. I thought of chickens as just ordinary animals until about a year ago when I met Snowflake the chicken at my workplace. 🥰 One day she flew out of the big pasture we keep the chickens in. We had to keep putting her back, we even trimmed her wings but...
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