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    What did your chickens do today?

    Very hot here today. Ours are rooting around, finding soft damp spots and digging into them.
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    my first chickens' first eggs at 16 1/2 weeks! :)

    Very nice. It was so exciting for us to hear those first egg songs a year or so ago. They are so proud of their creations and have to sing about it.
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    How to deal with broody chicken?

    Maybe, but she did it several times over the course of a month or so. Always the same 1" diameter round hole. No shell fragments lying around in the vicinity, so I assume she ate those, but the yolk, etc. were intact. If she does it again, I'll upload a photo. The "ventilated" eggs all went...
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    fart eggs

    This was the smallest we have seen. It had a full yolk, so I guess it was a "pullet egg".
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    Weird egg shapes?

    Our hen that went broody was laying some oddly shaped eggs right before she stopped laying. One egg looked partially cracked, but the shell was solid. Others had ridges around them or were very long.
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    How to deal with broody chicken?

    One of ours went broody 4 or 5 weeks ago. She stopped laying and would just sit on the eggs the other hens had laid. She would occasionally peck a 1" hole in the side of an egg as well. She wasn't eating them - maybe looking for a chick inside? I forced her out of the coop a few times and...
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    Is anything else going to change?

    I have two that were pure white as chicks, but are now 22 weeks old and look just like yours. Both of them started laying at 17 weeks.
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    Another rooster or hen game

    I have 3 "red pullets" from TSC that are right at 20 weeks old. They have not started laying yet, but have combs and wattles like your chickens "not in question". I was concerned they might be roosters due to their combs being larger than others I have that are laying. But they do squat and...
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    First egg, wrong spot and few other questions

    I used some golf balls in the nest boxes when they were getting near laying age. They had no problem figuring out where to lay. One dropped a shell-less egg one night from the roost, but that has been the only "oops" so far. We love the richness of our eggs. They are so much better than...
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    Squatting?

    I tried to get some photos of my hens squatting, but they did not cooperate very well with the delayed shutter of my phone camera. This was the best example of the pose. When approaching or touching them, they will assume this posture. Hind end nearly touching the ground, wings slightly spread...
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    First Egg!!!!

    Getting eggs regularly here from a couple of "Mixed Pullets" from TSC on March 1st. They were plain white at purchase, but since have become mostly red. Their combs and wattles are smaller and more subdued than the others we purchased on the same day (and are not laying yet). The girls with...
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    At what age do chicks start trying to Cock-a-doodle-do?

    My 6 pullets did that, It looked like they were trying to crow. One of them (now 17 weeks) still does it. She laid an egg yesterday, so she definitely isn't a roo.
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    First Egg!!!!

    First egg here today as well. Pretty large.
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    whats the earliest youve had a chicken lay?

    First egg today, 4th of July. TSC mixed pullets brought home March 1st, so they are about 17 weeks old. Miss Violet (named for the wound coat I sprayed on her when she got badly pecked months ago) was grumpy and growling this morning. Around 11AM, I heard the "egg song" being squawked and...
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