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    2 eggs a day!:(

    How does that work? I'm in Northumberland and I've only got 5 hens of which 3 are laying an egg every day still. The other two are still too young to have started laying.
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    Strange Welsummer Egg

    So my Welsummer Matilda has just laid her next egg after the weird white one. The shell colour has gone back to normal speckled brown.
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    Strange Welsummer Egg

    They're terrible at using the nestboxes. They always lay in the wood shavings I use in the bottom of their house.
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    Strange Welsummer Egg

    This morning I found that one of my Welsummer pullets, Matilda, had laid a very unusual egg. It's about 95% white, with a small circular patch of normal pigmentation. There is no doubt that is came from a Welsummer. Reading around I do not think eggs like this are very common, hence I had...
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    Pullet??

    I'm not massively experienced, but looking back at photos of my girls at about the same age it appears that they have much less defined/paler combs and wattles than both of yours. Might you actually have two roosters there?
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    Lets count to a million

    50813 Nearly there!
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    Laying in winter

    I read somewhere that snow can be very stressful for chickens, particularly if they're more accustomed to warmer (and less white) surroundings. Stress can stop laying, so I'm told.
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    Cream Legbar Still Not Laying

    I'm getting a little bit concerned about my eldest Cream Legbar pullet Star (shown above), who I hatched 36 weeks ago. She has still not started to lay, despite the fact her younger sister Misty (who I hatched 30 weeks ago) started to lay about a fortnight ago and produces an egg almost every...
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    Misty (13 weeks old)

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  10. Destiny (6 weeks old)

    Destiny (6 weeks old)

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  11. Star (28 weeks old)

    Star (28 weeks old)

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  12. Misty (24 weeks old)

    Misty (24 weeks old)

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    Cream Legbars

    My three Cream Legbar pullets - Star, Misty and Destiny.
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    What's your story..

    I always wanted chickens, but until about a year ago I never had the opportunity to have them. I previously lived in a modest-sized house in the middle of town, with small garden and close neighbours - I didn't think it would be fair to keep the chickens in such a small space. A year ago I moved...
  15. Misty (9 weeks old)

    Misty (9 weeks old)

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