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Not molting

I have a 1.5 year old hen that just starting laying eggs with no shell. They aren't rubber eggs, but liquid. She's on layer feed, has oyster shell, no stress. She was laying perfect and then wrinkled shell eggs 6 months ago and then for 2 months no eggs before these liquid eggs. Everything else...

HELP....I have 3 hens (been laying 1.5 yrs) Live in the FL Keys. They free range during the day in the hardwood hammocks. RR is molting, Easter Egger lays maybe one a week (stayed recently with a friend, with an a/c coop, for a week and layed every other day) and my BR was laying eggs with...

My RIR is about 32 weeks. She started laying about 6 weeks ago. She laid 2 weeks, took a day off, then laid 2 weeks again. Then I found an egg with no shell and I found a dried up soft shell. And that has been it for 3 days. I checked her vent and all looks well. (New at this so I thought to...

Thank goodness the next morning she wasn't wheezing. Because the pharmacy want open I didn't get the rx. I bet it was something stuck. Thank for your comment.

My pullet EE started the same thing this afternoon. I isolated her and tonight she is roosting fine and no wheezing. I'm still verry worried. I only have 3, all just 27 weeks. This morning they were raising a ruckus and maybe she did something then. They are from McMurray and I thought they...

I'M BACK! Two years ago I had to let my 2 girls be adopted. I live in the Florida Keys and didn't have enough space for them. No ventilation made very hot birds. Now I've moved and have plenty of room and shade. Thank goodness because I've so missed having my girls. This time I have a small...

The heat this summer in the FL Keys has been terrible. My Buff just couldn't take it and my Black Australorp was fine. After keeping my Buff in the a/c'd shed for 3 days (if left outside all she did was pant) I made a very difficult decision and relocated them to a farm in Ocala FL. It might be...

Yes, I still offered them grit and oyster shell. They ate both of them. I'm so sad to say .... this past Monday I took my girls to a friends farm in Ocala. I had another heat problem with my Buff and kept her in the a/c shed for 3 days until we went up there. They are super happy being free...

About a week after they started squatting they laid an egg. I know, the waiting is terrible. I thought I had the only chickens that weren't going to lay an egg. LOL Mine kept getting in their nesting boxes too. The first egg will probably be in the morning. Then each day it is later. When it is...

My girls were a little standoffish. I just kept giving them scratch in my hand. Now they are all around me. But they would never jump up in my lap. My Blondie does like ear rings though. yes, I would consider a fan in the coop. I have been thinking about a misting fan. It's just been so hot down...

I also got my girls from McMurray and the same age. They were delivered in mid November and my Buff didn't lay until the beginning of February. But she has laid perfect eggs from the beginning. I have her in the a/c'd shed today and will keep her there every afternoon during this heat. (My Black...

I have one Buff Orpington and one Black Australorp. The heat is really bothering my Buff. I almost lost her 3 days ago. Their not laying very well either. They have shade and I've got 2 fans going. What are you doing for yours? How many do you have and what do you have?

Where are you located in the Keys? I'm in Tavernier.

My Buff Orpington has been having a terrible time with the heat and stopped laying 3 days ago. Today she said an out in the run (she's never done that before). I cracked open the egg and it was perfect, but it was laying in a puddle of clear albumin like liquid. Has this happened to anyone else...