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    Hen acting strange after laying soft egg

    She’s now in the nesting box trying to lay an egg, maybe another hen laid that one and she’s just having a hard time laying 🤷🏼‍♀️
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    Hen acting strange after laying soft egg

    I found this soft shelled egg in the coop this morning, and this hen acting strange. I’m not 100% sure it was her who laid it, but it seems like she is. It was laid on the poop shelf while she was roosting, which has only happened when I got the first egg ever laid, which was also a soft shelled...
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    How to get my chickens to use nipple waterer?

    When I moved them to the run from the brooder, I took a 5 gallon bucket and drilled holes for the little cups waterers to go into, but they got so dirty so fast. Even with me wiping them out and dumping them every day they would get so nasty, and in the summer mosquitoes would lay their eggs in...
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    He’s a rooster, right?

    I got him from a friend about a week ago, and he said he’d heard him crow. I haven’t heard it yet. He looks like a rooster to me, but I’m new to chickens so what do I really know lol. He is somewhere around 15 weeks. What do yall think?
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    Deep bedding vs Deep Litter?

    Can someone help me understand the difference between these a little better? I've been using coffee grounds for my bedding and I'm just not loving it as much as I initially was. The grounds don't provide enough traction for my chickens when the jump off the roosting bars, and they seem to slip...
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    Chicken acting strange?

    How large of a pill can I realistically give a chicken? I’ve got some 315mg calcium citrate +d3 pills but they’re rather large lol Edit: I cut the pill up into smaller pieces and it was surprisingly easy to give to her. I waited until she was asleep and she didn’t really fight me. Hopefully...
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    Chicken acting strange?

    I just gave her some electrolyte water and she drank it with no hesitation. I read online in a few different places (some threads on here included) that giving yogurt can help them when having egg laying issues, both with probiotics and the extra calcium. She ate it up with ZERO hesitation...
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    Chicken acting strange?

    I have some electrolytes. I had an egg in the coop this morning, but I’m not sure if she was who laid it. It was the first one I’ve gotten, but she’s one of the three I suspect to have laid it due to signs she was showing that she was ready to lay. The egg did have a pretty thin shell, but I...
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    Chicken acting strange?

    I’ve got one chicken who is acting strange. She’s 19 weeks old, and may have laid her first egg this morning/ last night. I’ve got a 8 chickens, 7 of which are female and 1 is a male. I found my first egg this morning and she is one of three that I suspect laid it. She’s been totally fine until...
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    Pale comb one minute and bright red the next?

    Oh I’ve seen it and I did in fact think she was hurt, it looked like she was paralyzed 😂😂
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    Pale comb one minute and bright red the next?

    That is a relief to hear! I was so worried when I noticed the more pale color of her comb. But I’m new to chickens so I overthink about some things haha
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    Pale comb one minute and bright red the next?

    I’m probably overthinking this, but I just went to check on my chickens one last time before bedtime and noticed one of my 19 week old pullets with a yellowish tinge to her comb and wattles. I wasn’t able to get a photo of it at its most pale because once I turned the light on in the coop and...
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    When to switch food and provide oyster shells?

    My 7 chickens are now 18 weeks old. Two of them are cinnamon queen, two are black sex link, and three are americanas. The cinnamon queen and black sex link, to my understanding, are pretty close to laying age. I heard one of them the day before last singing the egg song, but I’m not sure who it...
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    Is this enough ventilation?

    This was my husbands first big building project, so I’m sure not everything is perfect. Are there any ways I could add more support since it’s already built? I’ve taken the screen out of the windows and replaced it with hardware cloth that’s screwed into the coop under the framing around the...
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    Is this enough ventilation?

    The human door is kinda south west, more so south.
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