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She has laid everyday. She has her nest box that she uses. She only laid her first one outside as she had been in my lap. She had wanted to be held and carried on with each egg until this morning. This was her 4th egg. She made no fuss and just went in her box and laid her egg.

She laid her first egg yesterday afternoon on the ground right behind beside me and jumped up on my lap as to say "I did it"

All my chicks will be 17 weeks old tomorrow. Of my 6 chicks, my Golden Comet, Barred Rock, and my Welsummer have started the squat. Yesterday my Golden Comet became restless and more attached to me than usual. This morning she is clucking loud and restless and appears to be trying to find...

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This is a change of subject but my chickens are all 17 weeks old. They have been with me since they were 3 days old. I raised them all as loving pets spending hours with them each day. All sit in my lap to be petted. On the day he was 15 weeks old my beautiful sweet loving Welsummer rooster...

I have rubber mats all over my chicken coop floor(wooden floor under). Easy to sweep and I just wash them off every day. Cleaning is a snap with these mats. I put Diatomaceous earth under the mats each time.

My run has hardware cloth and a tin roof. Very secure.

I keep an electric heater going in my coop(cuts off if moved or falls over). It has a thermostat. I live in North Carolina where it may be 40 this morning and 80 by lunch time(I have a ceiling fan and window fan for the heat). I will probably use this all winter long. Am I wrong in doing this.

My chicks are 5 weeks old today. Their chicken coop is a building with wood floors covered by industrial rubber matts. They have a heat lamp, a brooder heater and a regular heater run by thermostat. It has been in the high 40's at night. They go in their run for an hour at the time when it is...