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    Fairy egg after 8 mo's of eggs

    Sorry, I posted prematurely. Anyway, I actually free range them a lot less since the massacres. I feed them various feeds, all listed as layer feeds, mostly Purina. I haven't been supplementing calcium, since they seemed to ignore it. I am throwing their larva snacks into the pie tin where the...
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    Fairy egg after 8 mo's of eggs

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    Fairy egg after 8 mo's of eggs

    She is 1 yr old and has been laying since about last december. Actually
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    Fairy egg after 8 mo's of eggs

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    Fairy egg after 8 mo's of eggs

    My white leghorn has been a very reliable layer until about a month and a half ago. Here are the things I have noted, and that I would like feedback on: *At about the time she stopped laying, I found one "rubber" egg that might have been hers. *About 3 weeks ago I found a fairy egg laid by her...
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    Weird eggs

    Is this normal? I have never seen an egg like this. The white speckles create texture. 2 of my chickens are new layers, so this may just be 2 of their first eggs...just want to make sure that I don't need to be concerned. I will eat these 2 for breakfast tomorrow and will post pics of the...
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    Eggbound or broody?

    Well, I'm going to call this broody.Because she definitely is flattening herself out with her head low the way that one picture showed. So it sounds like we want to break her of the broodiness. I'll start taking her out of the nest and putting her on the ground and seeing what happens after a...
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    Eggbound or broody?

    That looks like my Lena-all puffed up and p***** off, LOL! The only concern I have is she hasn't laid, and normally she lays one egg a day. She seemed sophie other than the fact that she won't get out of the nest box. I just moved her to the "upstairs" nest box a few minutes ago and man.Oh man...
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    Eggbound or broody?

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    Eggbound or broody?

    I have an olive eager that I found sitting on the nest instead of sitting on the perch the other night when I went to shut their coop up. Now she's been sitting in a nest box all day. She's always taken a long time to lay an egg but this seems excessive. Which brings me to the question, Is it...
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    Worming

    I have fed them Layena crumble and pellets, also an organic feed blend I bought from a man who has a pretty big setup, who sells to Market of Choice (a local Whole Foods-style grocery chain) they forage in the back yard and I give them dried mealworms and cracked corn as a treat once a day...
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    Worming

    So can you suggest what else might be causing her to have runny poop? Fyi I have 4 other chickens, who have no issues....
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    Worming

    I have a chicken that has had runny poo since December. I added a little diatomaceous earth to her feed and poop got more solid for a while, but now she is back at it. I added d.e. again, figuring it is good for all of them, but think perhaps she needs something more. Is there such a thing...
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    Integrating new adult chicken

    You were right, the worst is over. They all seem fine now, but for the life of me I can't figure out where my new girl roosts at night. I checked on all of them about a half hour before dusk and she was foraging with the other girls, and less than 45 minutes later they were all settling into...
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    Integrating new adult chicken

    Not sure of the pecking order, except that my OE is the most aggressive toward New Girl, of all of them. Here is what happened just about 4 hours ago: I had to sequester New Girl at the back of the coop run by the dog kennel I was using as her temporary digs, using some portable dog fencing...
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