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    Comment by 'Pekin fan' in article 'Herbs, Flowers, and Weeds for Chickens'

    In the UK we call the marigolds in the picture 'African Marigolds' (Tagetes erecta). Marigolds are Calendula officinalis, a different plant altogether. They are commonly mixed up in the UK. Whilst all calendula are edible, some types of tagetes are toxic (apparently), so it is important to make...
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    Comment by 'Pekin fan' in article 'Herbs, Flowers, and Weeds for Chickens'

    My pekin bantams have just decimated my beautiful foxgloves - just as they were starting to flower. They obviously didn't get the memo that they are bad for them! They ate the leaves, seemed to go crazy for them, and pecked right into the thick stems and seemed to like what was inside. Are you...
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    UK Member Please Say HI

    I am in Winchester in the UK, and I have six pretty little pekin bantams
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    Weird egg-laying (soft shell, laying from roost) from new hen

    Golly, I don't think I could eat her! 😳 Is a defective shell gland a physiological thing that cannot be cured?
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    Weird egg-laying (soft shell, laying from roost) from new hen

    I stupidly locked up the nest boxes after all the laying hens had laid yesterday at noon, as I have a broody hen and I wanted to stop her accessing the nest boxes. I forgot about this hen who hadn't laid her soft-shelled egg yet (she usually drops it from her perch over night). In the afternoon...
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    Weird egg-laying (soft shell, laying from roost) from new hen

    Hi Rosemary - thanks for the advice. No, she has never laid a normal egg in the 6 weeks she has been with us. We had one egg that was slightly harder than her normal, daily squidgy ones (but still not as hard as a normal egg). The mineral boost I have been giving is powdered oyster shell with...
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    Weird egg-laying (soft shell, laying from roost) from new hen

    Another thing is that she is bottom of the pecking order, but is accepted fine and not bullied mercilessly.
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    Weird egg-laying (soft shell, laying from roost) from new hen

    It's high enough as all the other hens are laying just fine. It's just standard layers pellets which are nutritionally balanced to give a laying bird all she needs. I am sure it is nothing to do with the food.
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    Weird egg-laying (soft shell, laying from roost) from new hen

    Sorry, forgot to mention that. They are on normal layer's pellets. Plus mash with mineral boost. All the others (five hens) are laying jut fine. It's just her. It is something specific to her I think
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    Weird egg-laying (soft shell, laying from roost) from new hen

    Hello from the UK. I've recently got three new pullets. Two are laying fine, but one of them has, since we got them a month ago, been displaying very strange egg-laying behaviour. Every day she makes egg-laying noises, like her coop mates, she goes in the nest box, sits for a couple of hours but...
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    Bantam has gone broody - what do we do?!

    Thanks everyone for your advice. So, yesterday I put on some gloves and lifted her out of the nest box and closed it up. She did the most enormous poos, then ate and ate! She then spent the rest of the day walking round and round the coop (where the nest box is), jumping on top of it, jumping...
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    New member: pekin bantam owner

    What a lovely friendly bunch you are! Thanks for all the well wishes. Our girls are beautiful. Photos attached.
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    Bantam has gone broody - what do we do?!

    Thank you all of you for your replies. We don't have any fertilised eggs, and I'm not bothered if she doesn't lay for a while. I'm undecided whether to try and 'break' her broodiness, using all your tips above, or to just go with the flow and let it happen. What would happen if we just let her...
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    Bantam has gone broody - what do we do?!

    We have two bantams that we rescued (found them in the road outside our house!). We do not have a rooster So any eggs are definitely unfertilised. One of the bantams has gone broody and is hogging the nest box and we do not know what to do. Do we block off the nest box? That would prevent the...
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    New member: pekin bantam owner

    Hello everyone. I am based in the UK and was lucky enough to find two beautiful Pekin bantam hens in the road outside our house. We have absolutely fallen in love with them. Unfortunately one now has bumble foot and the other has gone broody and we have no idea what to do! I will be posting a...
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