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    Broody or new layer?

    So exciting!!!
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    Broody or new layer?

    Okay I just went to go peek at her. She's out of the coop wandering around with her sisters now. So what was she doing?! I was hoping for another egg! Lol Getting Ready?
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    Broody or new layer?

    I have one girl who was wandering with her sisters earlier and now sitting in a nest box. How long does it take to lay an egg? These are 17 or 18 week old sexlinks. She's been in it about 20 mins now, preening the shavings and placing them around her. She's laying on the tester egg and moving it...
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    Ahhhh! First eggs! Questions!

    It was exciting to go it and find another perfect egg!! Two so far. They are small of course but perfectly egg shaped!!
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    Ahhhh! First eggs! Questions!

    So exciting!!! One of our 18 weekers laid an egg yesterday and today and then just a few mins ago I found the soft membrane of two more side by side under one of the hens while on the roost. I'm assuming that's another one that's getting ready to lay and is it normal for that to happen while on...
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    My Buff Orphington laid her first egg

    So exciting!!! One of our 18 weekers laid an egg yesterday and today and then just a few mins ago I found the soft membrane of two more side by side under one of the hens. I'm assuming that's another one that's getting ready to lay???
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    Heat in the winter?

    Thank you both so much!!
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    Heat in the winter?

    I live in Maine and winters can get cooooold. I'm getting a bunch of crap from some friends saying we are mean to not provide heat lamps throughout the winter for our chickens... All the research I've done says it's not needed for adult chickens. What's the real truth?
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    What do YOU feed your chickens?

    On a side note... The girls have a separate container for their grit and another for their oyster shells when they get to that age.
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    What do YOU feed your chickens?

    I am looking for ideas on what to feed our chickens. We can't spend an exuberant amount of money on feed... They will be in a coop at night and run during the day... Free ranged when we are home. I don't mind feeding them store bought feed... However if it's not organic I am noting a lot of...
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    Light in the coop?

    An update here... We weaned them off the light over the course of several days and now they are great :) they've even doubled in size. It's cute to see them out themselves to bed. They were fine even in the 25 degree nights.
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    Blood on the roost??

    I am not sure what is going on. I will look at them again when I get home. I DID notice one of the chickens yesterday opening her beak occasionally then closing it again. She did this every few seconds.....
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    Blood on the roost??

    Two days ago I noticed blood smeared on the roost (we use the 4" side of a 2x4) -- I checked vents and feet and all seemed OK.. unless I missed something? I am VERY new to chicken owning. The girls are about 7 weeks old give or take. They are also acting completely normal.... Ideas?? thoughts??
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    Fox!!

    It's constructed of plastic pallets with plastic hardware cloth on top. Which may get changed to plastic pallets on top if they are alive when I get home .....
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    Fox!!

    It's not fully secure :( we have not had chance to put wire in bottom of it yet. Ugh. I have an awful feeling.
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