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    Silkie continually laying soft shell eggs….

    Thanks so much for your advice. I will try the syringe of liquid calcium for now and see where we get to with it. Fingers xd 🙏🏻
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    Silkie continually laying soft shell eggs….

    I got them as rescues - there weren’t any waterfowl there but there were other chickens!
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    Silkie continually laying soft shell eggs….

    Hi all. One of my silkies, Pom Pom, has been consistently laying eggs with paper thin shells for over a week. Usually she lays every other day and the eggs have always been slightly elongated, but lately shell less and very thin shelled eggs have become much more frequent. I just had two in a...
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    Silkie hasn’t laid in four days - is she upset that her nest box is taken up?

    Hi guys I have four silkies and two are currently broody (on day 15 I think) so spend all their time in the nesting boxes. My other two PomPom and Lavender aren’t broody and are just going about their normal business, however Lavender hasn’t laid in four days now. I saw her up there a couple...
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    Chicken becomes v anxious and squarks when friend isnt near - help!

    Thanks for all your replies. I don’t have a video sorry but I will try and get one. They never ever make a noise when they lay usually anyway - they just go Up to the nesting box and quietly lay then come Down! Do you have an example of an egg laying sqwark I can see? it’s reassuring to know...
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    Chicken becomes v anxious and squarks when friend isnt near - help!

    Hi all Wondering if you can help me as I am new here and new to chicken keeping! I adopted two silkies Pom Pom and Lavender about 2 months ago. They are approx. 1 year old and settled in really well. I was then told not to keep chickens in groups of less than three, so I then got two more...
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