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    Frost bite - treatment ?

    Yeah I’m waiting on a new/ better water system to be delivered with the nipple style . I have the run wrapped with some plastic panels and keep water and food outside . The coop has hemp deep bedding . Seems like adequate ventilation . Thank you
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    Frost bite - treatment ?

    Minnesota resident here with the first subzero day . I noticed my hen with the largest combs having some frost bite on her already 😭. We have an open drinking water container and I added less water to it so she wouldn’t dunk her head in the water so much is there anything I can do like apply...
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    Molting and decreased activity . First time owner

    Thank you . She’s on 18% layer feed. I put her down within a minute of this photo after giving her a good look over . Just wanted to make sure she want alright.
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    Molting and decreased activity . First time owner

    My Goldie girl is going through a molt . She was hatched January 2025 , I got her in April and saw her first “molt” getting her adult feathers . Now it’s late November and seeing signs of her specifically molting * Lots of gold feathers* and she hasn’t laid in close to a month or so which I know...
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    Sapphire Olive Egger Egg Photos?

    She lays the green egg next to the brown speckled one
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    Broody hen gone CRAZY . Help

    I have wanted to hatch out some eggs. I would’ve just preferred it earlier in the spring time. I do wanna add some more hens to my flock so she could hatch out some eggs next year. I distracted her with some apples and feed yesterday and she is acting a lot more normal and less crabby. This is...
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    Broody hen gone CRAZY . Help

    Yeah we live in Minnesota so it’s not going to be good weather to have chicks here soon . Definitely thinking about it and I hate to put her in jail . She’s being better today and coexisting . Hoping it’s a phase 🤞🏻
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    Broody hen gone CRAZY . Help

    My hen Goldie hatched 01/25 went broody near July 4th and now gone broody again . She went immediately to broody jail and today I removed her so I could clean the jail and she became so mean to her 3 other flock mates . Two separate times she attacked my marans . It was so bad my husband stepped...
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    Soft shell egg … normal ?

    I have seen her peck around at the oyster shell and eat it . Thank you 😊
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    Soft shell egg … normal ?

    I have a small flock of 4 hens and they’re all new layers . 2 of them (marans) haven’t started laying . But today my olive egger laid a soft shell egg. It was broken on the coop floor and not even in the nesting box. It was the 3rd egg she has laid . It has been HOT in Minnesota where I live so...
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    Our first egg - 🥚

    So excited we just got our first egg on our little backyard homestead . Our sweet girl Goldie laid it . She’s our Easter egger and I found the most perfect small blue egg in the nesting box this morning . YAY 😁 Egg is about 1.5 ounces so it’s a small egg 🪺
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    Our first egg

    So excited we just got our first egg on our little backyard homestead . Our sweet girl Goldie laid it . She’s our Easter egger and I found the most perfect small blue egg in the nesting box this morning . YAY 😁 Egg is about 1.5 ounces so it’s a small egg 🪺
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    Cute hens. First time owner

    Yeah we got them in April and combs really started turning red a couple Of weeks ago. Sooo excited and they’ll be more posts when eggs come . Excited for my rainbow eggs 🤞🏻
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    Cute hens. First time owner

    Not yet sadly !! I’ve been eagerly checking. I’ve assumed Goldie is oldest because she’s always been a lot bigger and she is definitely “mother hen” and keep everyone in line
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    Cute hens. First time owner

    Just love my ladies. Not sure on ages but I think they were hatched during January at different times We have Goldie the EE , Dot the midnight maran, Noodle the sapphire olive egger and Daisy the midnight maran with a gold neck splash
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