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    Bumblefoot? Foot injury?

    Honestly I looked over her today and I see nothing that looks out of the ordinary. The spot under her foot smoothed out a little and looks pretty similar to her other foot save for a slightly discolored spot on the pad near the middle toe (which can actually be seen in the photo I posted). I...
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    Bumblefoot? Foot injury?

    The roost is only about 2 ft high from the ground from where they sleep at night. They have some perch spots out in the run, too, which is about the same height. However, we do have some roots that stick up from the ground that we have been trying to eliminate after clearing a bunch of...
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    Bumblefoot? Foot injury?

    Hello! I'm hoping to get some confirmation in my thoughts and guidance. I got home for my lunch break and found one of my girls was limping pretty badly. She's about 6 months old and a barred rock (currently laying). My husband and I grabbed her to inspect her foot and found she has a fleshy...
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    20 week old pullet laying two eggs AT ONCE

    This sounds basically identical to what we were going through with our barred rock. I will say that she's still off and on got some weird stuff happening with her eggs (almost every egg is a double yolker except for maybe one or two). Occasionally we will still get a random soft shelled egg or...
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    20 week old pullet laying two eggs AT ONCE

    Hopefully the final update as long as things don't go backwards! Our problem pullet was in and out of the nesting boxes all afternoon and we got this big ole 2 oz egg from her! Only one egg and shell is perfect! We ordered some flaked oyster shell that should be here Sunday to hopefully continue...
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    20 week old pullet laying two eggs AT ONCE

    We have some progress! After two days of calcium citrate pills to my problem girl and some eggs shells that I crushed up and gave to all of them, we made it through the night without any no-shell eggs under the roost! My barred rock having the issues with laying two eggs was perky all day...
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    20 week old pullet laying two eggs AT ONCE

    Yes that's been kind of my concern.. The only thing I can think of that has changed recently is I had them on Purina Layena Pearls for about 2 weeks after the first one laid an egg (switched from grower crumbles) and they did really well on that. Now that food was starting to run out so we did a...
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    20 week old pullet laying two eggs AT ONCE

    I had been searching for a week or so for a flaked oyster shell that isn't $15/lb. I finally found a source but it's not local and I had to order it. In the mean-time I put out some crushed egg shells out for them as a quick alternative and a few snacked on it this morning. I'll be giving the...
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    20 week old pullet laying two eggs AT ONCE

    Okay I'm at a loss.. We had one (maybe two) other pullets aside from this one with the double laying issue (which she did again last night). The other two were laying regularly with nice hard shells, and now all of a sudden they're laying soft shelled eggs in the middle of the night, too. I...
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    20 week old pullet laying two eggs AT ONCE

    Thanks, I hope that's all it is. You can tell this is taking a toll on her and by the evening she just looks miserable. Poor bird. I'm picking up the calcium today on my lunch break at work. My local drug store has a 500mg version of it. Does it matter what time of day it's given to her?
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    20 week old pullet laying two eggs AT ONCE

    I have a 20 week old barred rock pullet that yesterday afternoon was laying in the run, puffed up, eyes closed and not wanting to move. I brought her inside, gave her a good warm soak and when picking her up out of the water she passed a soft shelled egg and what looked to be a completely...
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    Help identifying different stools? Ending runny, some watery, etc

    Hey! Happy to conclude I was in fact just being paranoid. We still have some weird poops every once in awhile but I'm trying to worry less about consistency (unless something is just WAY weird) until there accompanying symptoms.
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    First egg!! Which chicken laid it?

    Thanks!! I'll have to take a look when I get home and see if I can spot the culprit. 🙂
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    First egg!! Which chicken laid it?

    So today we found our very first egg! Our pullets are 18 weeks old today so this is very exciting, we weren't expecting anything for a few more weeks at least! Now.. hindsight is 20/20, but looking back I should have gotten chickens that laid different colored eggs to help my sanity in figuring...
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    Help! Lethargic chicken

    We have them on dumor starter/grower crumbles still until they hit 20 weeks old, none of our 6 pullets have started laying yet. They have free access to grit and aside from the 10 minutes outside of their run every few days their 'free range' ability is pretty limited. She's exploring her...
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