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    What is this. . . I found in a nesting box next to an egg

    Hey I figured out how to use the reply function! We have a mixture of hens, we let the grandkids pick out the chicks every spring! We have 5 leghorns, 3 black alsorps, 2 lakenvelders, 2 salmon faverolles, 2 cream legbars, 2 starlight green eggers, 2 amercuanas, 1 each of a welsummer, rhode...
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    What is this. . . I found in a nesting box next to an egg

    Thank you everyone for the term lash egg. My husband and I had never heard of it, and we are rolling into our 4th year of owning hens. Needless to say, we are freaked out and have plans to do a thorough coop cleaning tomorrow in our snowy 30 degree weather.
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    What is this. . . I found in a nesting box next to an egg

    we feed our hens a 16% layer feed purchased at Tractor Supply. They get a bowl of scratch grains with a cupful of black fly grubs in a seperate bowl as a "snack". They also eat bugs, worms, etc they find in their fenced in pasture.
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    What is this. . . I found in a nesting box next to an egg

    Hello, I found this in one of my nesting boxes next to an egg. It is cold here in the PNW, during the last 24 hours we had a low of 28 degrees, and up to 40 degrees today. All of my hens seem to be okay. Did my chicken thow up and this is the frozen result? Please advise, and thank you!
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    Old Garden Seeds?

    I was cleaning out the Garden Shed and found a box of old garden seeds . . . I must have purchased them and then my husband purchased more. It seems a waste to throw them away. I have a lot of seed corn from the 2022 gardening season; can I feed them to my chickens? What about other garden...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Up in Darlington here (Arlington mailing address, but closer to Darrington), 76 degrees and wind finally blowing the smoke around a bit. Today we can see the mountains, and seeing how one is in my backyard that is good. Yesterday was horrible! How does smoke affect chickens?
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    New Member to the BYC here from the PNW

    Hi Everyone! I am a new member of this board and I live in the PNW (ok, northwest Washington State). We purchased our first flock of baby chicks from a local chain of farm stores in May 2022, and we thought we had figured out raising chickens until we purchased another 8 chicks just 2 months...
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