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    Gelatinous Egg Whites

    Ditto. We have several batches of chickens, but our oldest 12 (hatched 3/2022), if they lay, lay eggs with gelatinous whites. I can't sell the eggs. Anyone figured out a cause yet? My suspicion, from my own empirical evidence, is either 1) because they are the only chickens that we started on...
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    When do big hens usually stop laying

    I just had a bird die from egg peritonitis. She lived for over six months with the condition unbeknownst to me; eating, pooping, foraging like all the others. When she started standing in one place all day, that got our attention and the sleuthing began. By the time we figured out what was wrong...
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    The Old Folks Home

    Thank you for this article!
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    Almost no eggs...Marek's the cause?

    I can't help but say, "Amen!" to this thread. I'm going through a lot of the same things, and almost the exact timeline. I obviously found your post while searching for reasons to explain what's going on with my birds. I've gone through the same thought process and tried all the same things. No...
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    I'm new-ish here...

    I don't like social media, I'm probably an introvert, and I don't have a lot of time to spend on a computer doing research. So, I joined to expedite my search for reliable information. I've referenced this site multiple times since our first flock in 2012, and now I need to dig deeper to achieve...
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