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    odd question?

    I had planned on enlarging, just waiting til we saw IF we needed it. Except for them pecking the feathers off poor Greta they were fine with 6 in the original run. Paprika just didn't want ANYONE in there with her. We tried each chicken by themselves with her and she just went right for them...
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    odd question?

    WOW! I think I know how Greta feels now. Anyway, we went into town this morning and bought the supplies to double the size of the run. It's now a bit over 8x10 foot and 4 foot tall Once we got it set up and the 6 hens in, we gave them a bit of time to discover their new space and we put Greta...
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    odd question?

    Sigh, let me try again. The problem isn't overcrowding. The issues are- I can't have Greta in the run since they all attack her the second she gets put in and I can't put Paprika in the run since she attacks the other hens. Thus the peepers. My thought is/was-if they all have peepers on, there...
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    odd question?

    I have 3 reds (Paprika, Saffron and Ginger), 3 blacks (Skill, Grace and Accuracy) and one Barred rock (Greta). Greta hasn't started laying and is kept apart from the 6 layers. Their (the 6 layers) run is 4x10x4 foot, pvc pipe covered in chicken fencing, makes a box type run. Very effective and I...
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    odd question?

    I put peepers on 6 of my 7 hens, one pullet, all well and good. The main issue was one was pecking EVERYONE, she's fine with the peepers, the issue now seems to be that literally all the layers peck on the pullet (she gets her own in but it escalates to flying feathers and blood waaaay too...
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    Chickens is WEIRD!

    Paprika is in a cage by herself. Unless one of the others is sneaking in and putting one of their eggs in there... If she lays one egg it IS a double yolker tho. Chickens IS weird after all. Anne
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    Chickens is WEIRD!

    Paprika has been laying 2 a day for about a week now, lovely eggs both of them!!! We joke that she's making up for the ones she ate. LOL!!! Anne
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    Chickens is WEIRD!

    We ate it yesterday... It WAS kind of a double yolker... 2 fer!!!! Never seen the egg in egg thing b4. Totally bizarre! I wonder if it had anything to do with the pork bones we'd given her the day b4! RIGHT!!! Grins Anne
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    Chickens is WEIRD!

    Update-Paprika laid an egg a few minutes ago that was easily twice the size of her normal eggs today!!! Very Proud of my Girl. Anne
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    Chickens is WEIRD!

    We put Paprika into a bin with chicken wire on top for almost a week with a daily foray onto grass n bugs for a few hours. Not sure that makes sense. Basically she's been in solitary since she almost pecked Saffron to death. She went a little weird after she started laying fine for 3 days then...
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    Chickens is WEIRD!

    3 High Production Reds, 3 HPB and 1 Barred Rock. Our Super Eggie Girl is one of the Reds, she's also the (now ex) egg breaker. I still have no idea how to get the Barred Rock (Greta) in with the others. She is either pecked on or pecks whoever is in there with her so she's on her own and seems...
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    Chickens is WEIRD!

    In my intro I was having a prob with an egg breaker, she's not only stopped eating/breaking but she just laid egg #3 today. I know it's hers cause she's still in solitary confinement. All are perfect pretty brown eggs. I swear she's trying to make up for the broken eggs. Too FUN! I'm giving her...
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    2 eggs in one day?

    They get free choice calcium, yoghart, skinned out eggshells, fruit, veg, meat scraps you name it they've got it! their diet is better than mine. Grin. Anne
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    2 eggs in one day?

    Funny, I have one chicken that ate her eggs for about a week, She stopped and started laying 2 a day for the past few days. Bizarre Girl.The really funny bit-the first day she didn't eat her egg she laid it in her food dish. And stood there looking at it, til DH came over and took it before...
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    Silly Newbie here

    Oddly enough Miss Bully laid an egg yesterday and this morning without ANY problems at all! Perhaps there was just something wrong with the ones she ate? Or maybe she was just bored those days LOL. Paprika IS an odd bird. Ginger, the wounded one, is doing very well. Hasn't stopped for even a...
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