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    Soft eggs, will she ever lay normally?

    We have a Australorp hen, about 1 year old, that has never laid a normal egg. We got them in June this year, all the other Australorp hens which are the same age, are all laying perfect eggs. For the last few weeks, once a week, we would find a broken (after being stood on) soft shelled egg...
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    Backyard Brahmas!!

    Took our little 16 day old brahma babies out for a bit of fun in the sun today. First sand bath!!
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    Backyard Brahmas!!

    New to Brahmas, we have six in the brooder at the moment. Some really pretty birds on this thread. Our broody German Shepard
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    Advice needed on broody hen with hatching eggs

    Thanks for the helpful reply
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    Advice needed on broody hen with hatching eggs

    We have 2 broody hens at the moment. As first time chicken keepers we are not 100% sure on what is normal. Some of the eggs have started hatching under the one girl today, but she hasn't been off the nest since yesterday to eat and drink. She is quite stubborn and we needed to physically...
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    Confused, chicken suddenly died

    Thanks for the replies and condolences. We have only had the chickens for about 8 weeks and already got very attached so it is very sad and worrying. Hope the rest of the girls will be ok. With no symptoms of any kind, in a sad way, I hope you are right Wyandottes7, because then the other...
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    Confused, chicken suddenly died

    Would appreciate any opinions... Had a perfectly healthy, as far as we know, light Sussex hen suddenly die this morning. There was a bit of a commotion in the coop this morning and when we went to open up, she was sitting breathing heavily and gasping for air. Her comb was very dark and 15...
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    Show us your nest boxes! Ingenous design post it here!

    Thanks Yes, home built, used an old melamine counter top for the roof and off cut/left over cladding and ply board to do the rest. I routed out the half rounds for the front and used the bits I cut out for the step up bar.
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    Show us your nest boxes! Ingenous design post it here!

    We designed these nest boxes around the black plastic crates we found at the plastics store. The crates are removable for cleaning. Came out quite nice, we think
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    Checking in from South Africa

    Thanks everyone for the welcomes Been checking out the learning center and coop build threads, there's just so much info, bit too much to take in all at once This is the coop so far, will post more pics when its done.
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    Checking in from South Africa

    Hi guys/girls Been lurking on the forum for a while, decided to join. New to chickens, busy building our coop. Great forum, looking forward to being part of BYC
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