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We keep adding hay and they keep scratching it out! I am researching.... how did the sand work? did they scratch it all out too? Is it ok for the chickens to lay in empty boxes? has anyone else tried the old clothes or rags? I am NOT going to wash them to keep them clean but would throw away...

Thank you for your reply and I am sorry for the delay. I wouldn't describe it as a streak from one end to the other. More of a smear, all the way around the egg. I haven't pulled a "close" inspection of my hens but I've looked to see if I see anything and nothing. I figured they are all white...

We have 12 chickens and 4 boxes. They seemed to favor one box. When I first added the golf balls it took a couple of days but they finally moved to the other boxes. I think now that my chickens have a leader and they follow the leader. There are some days all 12 eggs are in one box. There has...

I did a search on this forum for previous post and see that blood ON the egg shell can be normal. My chickens have been laying since August. Just this week we have started getting one egg every day with blood on the shell. So is it still "normal"?

Well, we discovered today that our "ChickenPrison" is not totally Predator proof. We were just beginning to get 11 eggs a day. Only 5 today. Found 6' long black snake with at least two whole eggs inside it on top of nesting box. We had a foot and a half high of "wood pecker" wire wrapped...

Thanks Ladies! I learn something new every time I log on here. Now I have another option to try!

Thanks for the back up. I am a newbie to the forum but I am 47 years old. So I have cracked a few eggs. Before I had my own chickens it was the side of the frying pan, edge of a fork or the edge of a knife. Try to do this now and I am getting the dust fragments. Maybe its not the shell and its...

I am a newbie. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum...... My chickens are laying eggs and the shells are harder than the store bought ones. I am having to strike the egg twice. This is causing some dusty shell particles in my eggs. Is it the feed we are giving the chickens? Will I eventually...

Visited my grandparents farm every Sunday when I was little. Spent a lot of time playing in the chicken pen and getting eggs. Many years later decided that we needed and wanted chickens. Thats when we first found BYC. We could find answers to every question we had. We (my husband) decided he...