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    All About Me

    This is my first time raising chickens. I have seven hens. Barr Rock, Buff, RIR, 3 Isa Brown's and a Blackstar. Only the Blackstar and one Isa are laying. I am thrilled. My husband grew up with chickens and is a little more informed about them. But I have been sharing with him and he said these...
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    Peeling Fresh Eggs

    Thanks!!!
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    Peeling Fresh Eggs

    Can anyone tell me how to prepare hard boiled eggs that don't tear off the egg with the shell? I made deviled eggs with mine and they didn't peel good at all. I think I remember my Grandma saying to put some vinegar in the water and that will make eggs the eggs shell easier. Help someone I don't...
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    Got an early Christmas Present Today. Our first egg.

    Nice Christmas present! My yellow orp laid her first egg today. Isn't it thrilling???
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    Egg Laying Increasing

    My Yellow Orp laid her first egg today, even though her comb is small, it hasn't grown at all since June when I got her and she was 10 weeks then. But she sat on the nest today and had a nice little egg. I have one more to go a RIR whose comb has gotten really big. She likes to sit in the box...
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    Egg Laying Increasing

    I am seeing an increase, but I have a light on from 3:00 am to 5:00 pm. Out of my 7 pullets, 5 are laying. In fact one of my girls, a Isa Brown laid such a big egg today, I was afraid she was going to strain something and guess what she laid a double yoker!!!!
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    Trying to winterize my coop I made a big MISTAKE! Help!

    Thanks everyone, it is comforting to know that I am not the only silly one!!!
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    Trying to winterize my coop I made a big MISTAKE! Help!

    Hi everyone, with the cold weather here last week I really worried about my chicken run which is about 10 feet long. So I had my husband buy me a piece of that 1 1/2 pink insulation board and had him put it up around the side of my coop. Well my girls decided to peak in it and had one piece...
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    Do they eat their own poop?

    I saw mine eat poop too. Yuck, but they haven't died from eating it so I think it's ok.
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    28 Weeks....no eggs

    one of my Isa Brown's just started laying on Thursday, she was born in April and I was worried too. My Black Star who had been molting had not laid in about three months and the Isa Brown got up in the nesting box with Black Star and they hawed and hemmed and I had two eggs. Now if Isa Brown's...
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    How long till eggs after adding light?

    Hi I put a light in my coop and within a week my Isa Brown started laying again. My other girls are younger and haven't laid yet. My Black Star has been in moult and hasn't laid in about 2 months. I got her full grown and she may have been old and I am debating whether or not to cull her.
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    Can Chickens eat pumpkin

    Quote: Mine love both and they will fight over who gets the stuff!
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    How many of you are experiencing a drop in egg production?

    Quote: This Sunday I put a light in my chicken coop, I have a timer on it, it turns on at 5:00 am and goes out at 7pm. I hope that my girls will start laying again. I too have had to buy eggs, which I don't like.
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    Sign of a pullet first starting off?

    Thanks for your advice.
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    Sign of a pullet first starting off?

    I think one of my girls has just started laying. She is laying in the hay at the bottom of the coop and I have found two eggs, one yesterday covered with poop and today one that had a very thing shell, it looked like it it had been painted and the paint had started to bubble off. What is that...
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