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    Egg eater problem

    We have always added crushed oyster shells to our feed, and the eggs are good and solid. This morning I put out two eggs filled with hot Chinese mustard. The chickens appeared to love them since they were totally eaten. It's not clear to me what food a chicken would find offensive, but...
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    Egg eater problem

    Well ours are entirely enclosed in a chicken wire run and no other animals have entry. Now essentially all the eggs in the one coop get eaten no matter where they are layed in the coop. Have to try the mustard egg yet. Once the egg is opened everyone gets in the act, so it's hard to figure out...
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    Do your chickens go out in the snow?

    It seems to be breed related. Both of my coops are about 4 feet above the ground, and unless the wind is really severe and the snow is deep that area stays dry and snow-free. I prop open the doors and usually scrape the snow off the ramp. Most of them jump under the coop for their daily treats...
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    Egg eater problem

    We have a variety of chicken breeds and never had an egg eating problem until we added White Rock hens last summer; I don't know if the behavior is breed related. We never had nest boxes - for years the hens picked a bit of mulch in the coop and layed wherever, but we put them in the past year...
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    Molting??? This time of year???

    One of my coops has stopped laying entirely. Their rumps are bare (no rooster). In the other coop they are still laying but lots of feathers are missing. I treated for mites/lice just in case. I've never had hens molt in the winter and then again in the spring.
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    Egg production stopped: now what?

    They don't seem to be. Why would they be molting now? They all molted over the winter.
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    Egg production stopped: now what?

    I have two coops in yards next to each other. In both coops the two year olds (Australorps and Buff Orpingtons) have basically totally stopped laying. One of the coops has year-old Rhode Island Reds, and they are laying just fine. I know from a long history with these breeds that they lay...
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    turned lights off too soon

    OK, We'll hope they'll get back to a normal schedule. Do you leave lights on all the time, or do you never use lights in the winter? Our winter days are pretty short so the non-egg laying season is usually about 3 months. We add a few new girls every year that start laying about the time the...
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    turned lights off too soon

    This has probably been asked a thousand times - sorry. We tried using lights in the coops this winter for the first time to keep up egg production, which it did. Then as the days naturally got longer we stopped using the lights. Now we're getting a rare egg. What should we do? Will turning the...
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    aracaunus egg color

    Thanks for the correction. Yes, we got them from a hatchery. This is the only one we've isolated to know and found out egg color. We do get some blue eggs from others. Will try to get pic.
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    aracaunus egg color

    I had to go look because they actually have little to no comb, as a group. The comb on this one is rather flat. None of our Aracaunus are rumpless. So it looks like I ordered Aracaunus and got something else. Obviously some of them do lay blue eggs. They are nearly four years old and we get a...
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    aracaunus egg color

    We have an Aracaunus who lays brown eggs. All the others lay the traditional bluish eggs. How common is it to get brown eggs from this breed? Just wondering.
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    Silver Wyandottes - are they hardy?

    I tried Silver Wyandottes just one time. I've always ordered chicks from Mt Healthy Hatcheriesl. One was a roo we gave away. One was lame from day one. It looked like the hip was dislocated and the foot wagged in back like a tail. We tried to straighten and hold it in place until she was 6 mo...
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    Flock integration.. asking for trouble or am I ok? Longish post. :)

    This year we put 6 Rhode Island Reds in with three year old Black Australorps (4) and Aracanus(3). There is no roo. First they were near each other but separated by chicken wire fence. Then at about 5 months we let them co-mingle and share a coop. All went well for two months. Now one of the...
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    Asking Help: Hen with Swollen Tummy; abdomen

    Not ever had an egg bound chicken but we have checked for it with some sick hens using a gloved finger and KY jelly. All is available at the drug store. I'm told if they are egg bound you can feel the egg and try to lubricate around it very gently. From the vent the egg production comes from the...
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