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    Thin-shelled eggs

    Just to reiterate, I have not used any feed except for laying pellets, but they get lots of scraps, seed/cracked corn, and free range bugs and plants (grass, dandelions and miners lettuce). What should I change to in the off season, or when they molt? Incidentally, The thin-shell layer's eggs...
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    Thin-shelled eggs

    The answer to your question is 'no' ... I haven't changed their feed at all in all the time we've had them. I didn't know I should and as they get lots of scraps, their feed (laying pellets), oyster shell, a mixed seed/cracked corn scratch, free range bugs, etc., and the additional omega3...
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    Thin-shelled eggs

    After our winter egg laying hiatus, one of our three chickens failed to start with the onset of spring light. I was beginning to worry she might be egg-bound, but there seemed to be no other obvious ill effects on her health. Finally, about three months after the other two had started laying...
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    Hen plucking and eating each other's feathers

    This dominance problem seems a possible answer to my problem. However, I'm not real sure what to do about it ... perhaps the separation treatment will work. I have three hens, no roosters, and it seems to be primarily one hen that is doing the plucking (both of the other hens have rather bare...
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