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    BROODY HEN Q: When to give Broody Hen a Day-Old Chick to adopt? Day or Night or Does it Matter?

    Thank you both for this post. I have a broody hen with one egg and I am not sure it will hatch. I'm thinking I might put a day old under her if it doesn't. This helped! :-) I have approximately 48 hours til we know.
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    Shell-less eggs

    My vet said soft shells are VERY normal for the beginning and often the end of a laying season. I, too, have been getting a number of soft shells from my Sapphire Gem. She started out laying double yolks and a soft and now she generally lays a single yolk and then later 2 soft shells. She...
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    Lavender Orpington hasn't laid this year

    She was very well loved.
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    Lavender Orpington hasn't laid this year

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    Lavender Orpington hasn't laid this year

    UPDATE: Hi all, My sweet girl died last month and the vet found a "weird" tumor situated right up next to her oviduct so there was no way she was able to lay anything. She saved the tumor to show me and it was odd. Very flat on one side, slightly rounded on the other. I thought she had...
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    Potty Training Chickens, How-to!

    My son is a bird trainer and will be helping me target train my new babies. He told me to teach them to poop in one spot but I laughed, however, I may talk to him about that as well.
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    Lighting for henhouse at night??

    I have my 2 and 3 week old chicks outside with no light at all. They have mama heating pad for warmth and are doing wonderful. Chickens will do just fine with the natural day/night cycle. :-)
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    DO YOU WASH & REFRIGERATE YOUR EGGS?-

    My nest boxes are very clean. It's the hen's booty that is the problem at my house. Not a fan of poo eggs either.
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    New digs for the chicks

    Thank you. They're fun and stressful all rolled into one fluffy little booty.
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    New digs for the chicks

    Just moved my littles to their outside pen today.
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    First night in the coop for my babies.. Scared mama here

    I'll be getting a few chicks on Sunday and mostly brooding them outside. They might be in a couple nights so I can watch how they are doing with the mama heating pad. I know I won't be sleeping much when I put them out. I do have a pretty safe pen and my older girls have never had an issue...
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    Lavender Orpington hasn't laid this year

    Very positive she isn't laying. She lays a brown egg, I'm only getting green eggs.
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    Keeping a clean coop...

    I have sand in my coop and in a good portion of my run. The nest boxes have straw in them. If the girls poop on anything I pour sand on it to dry it out then use a litter box scooper to clean out all the poo every week or so.
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    Lavender Orpington hasn't laid this year

    Hi all, My sweet little Priscilla hasn't laid one egg in 2019. She went through a light molt in December and stopped laying then. I believe I have given her ample time to begin laying again...:rolleyes::p. She will sit in the nest box at times but doesn't lay. She isn't laying elsewhere in...
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    Oregon

    I'm looking for a Speckled Sussex, maybe a Salmon Faverolle. I have an Ameraucana and a Lavender Orpington. I also am considering a Blue Lace Red Wyandotte or a Silver Lace Wyandotte. I would love each of my girls to lay different colored eggs so I know who is laying but I don't know that...
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