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    Elongated egg...Is this normal?

    Interesting thread. Two months ago I lost one of my three 2-year-old RIR hens. Shortly before dying she was laying elongated eggs (until then her eggs were normal), sometimes with a soft shell, or with the rings and color gradations others have noted. Sometimes the eggs came out as large wet...
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    What if I don't provide artificial light?

    My RIR girls are 15 weeks and two out of three are starting to redden up. I know that artificial light is recommended to promote laying, but I'm more interested in what's natural, not what produces more eggs, probably at the expense of hen well-being. Since I live in Zone 5 and the days are...
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    Will chickens follow their mobile henhouse around the yard?

    I figured that if I moved the coop every day or so they'd have no problem, and I did so for the first couple of weeks. Then I decided I really didn't want them to be mobile, so I've left it in one spot. When they run to it, they run headlong, flapping and half-flying. It didn't look like they...
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    Will chickens follow their mobile henhouse around the yard?

    Thanks! I'm not moving it far at all--maybe a dozen feet.
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    Will chickens follow their mobile henhouse around the yard?

    I have three 15-week-old Rhode Island Red hens in a mobile coop that's been in the same place for about four weeks. I let the hens range free for most of every day, and they always go back to their coop when they're frightened and to roost at night. I want to move the coop today but I'm afraid...
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