MoonMoon

MoonMoon

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    It’s now summer of 2025 and we still have most of the chickens. Their respiratory disease has gotten better. Their breath doesn’t smell like sewage water anymore, that had gone away long ago, but, the raspy breathing is still there. Could be because CRD but 7 GC and only 3-5 yellow eggs per day, 13-15 eggs in total for 18 hens.

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    Today’s shell less egg may be from the hen pictured above. Can’t confirm 100% but if it’s her, would’ve pressed for culling. Every so often there’s always a shell less egg or what remains of one. Hen laid oblong egg consistently lay oblong eggs. Hens laid speckled egg consistently lay speckled eggs, so if this is the hen that laid shell less eggs, she’s dinner to me >:3
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    The Golden Comets is very fat and meaty at least.
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    Duck's egg. Lots of chicken eggs.
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    I’ve start selling eggs to recoup feeding cost. We get 12-14 eggs per day.
    I had since realized the Golden Comets is unfit as free ranger. They suffer almost immediately from shortage of food. WISH I can convince my parents to not buy these anymore...
    They prized themselves in buying these because they’re 50 cents cheaper than mine...
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    My parents plan to buy 50 more Golden Comets despite their health failing very fast when malnourished. And they plan to only feed them with kitchen scraps lmao, they think they’re so smart, capitalizing on free food to make eggs to sell. Well, not like we didn’t lose 10 birds from malnutrition already. Oh, but they’re 50c cheaper! Smh at least my 9€ leghorn can dig, the 8,50€ GC is something else.
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    Parents saved 5€ but also lost 10+€ due to dying/dead bird, if not counting last year’s losses. The Golden Comets is not looking good this year.
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    Had been coming home late daily since taking a new job. Saw broken eggs evidence, what was left of a shell-less egg. So it wasn’t pullets just laying odd eggs, it was my fault, oops. The chickens were definitely short on calcium, it’ll prob take a few days to resolve. Fam is deffi not feeding the chickens well, some crop full some lacking. I’m hopin’ nobody gets egg peritonitis, or we will get some premature broth ☹️
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    Yeah we have too many chickens and we can’t consume all of the eggs but at least not be my chickens. The golden comet is very fat and yummy and ate much 😭

    It’s funny how immediate the consequences of me having to go to work echoed in the birds. Not good to keep their health up, though. Also, their eggs is getting smaller??? I didn’t think nutrition would affect egg size! But I think that makes sense.
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    Egg eating is not a concern yet because I’m sure it’s not intentional, but if the calcium problem get resolve and they still eat the eggs that’ll be a different story. However, it could be not the chickens eating the yolk, too. Most of them refuse to eat the broken eggs except for a very few(wyandotte)
    But the shell is definitely ate by them. Tossed a few whole shells out today and no shells left afterward.
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    Frustrated today because I have to go home late due to work. Found a rat because I put feed in the run today because it was cold out. Couldn’t kill it, too quick. Lesson learned, no more kitchen scraps just tossed in the garden willy nilly, too, because the bones I toss in the garden disappeared. Fox? Cats? i hope not. Even crows and magpies are not welcome. Really gotta stick this lesson in.
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    Usually I would just throw the kitchen scraps and feed out for the chickens in a corner but after several times I am sure something else was eating it. I wish I invested in a better feeder before buying these. I will also be buying and setting up cage-style rodent traps. I was losing sleep over the thought of pests in my garden.
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    Really shouldn’t attract predators into my yard. No incident yet since the first two but I don't want to learn by blood(of my birds)
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    Shell-less egg. I’ve found ~5 so far, 4 this week.
    I think it was from a golden comet because the egg was big and yolk was thick. The golden comets lay eggs with thick yolk.

    The GCs had laid tons of double-yolked eggs, so I know they can have weird eggs. Suspected one shelless layer and today I found two eggs, under the roost. There was only one golden comet in there.
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    One egg had broke already but seems like no membrane was found? Both were laid at midnight at least, as I've checked the coop before 8 pm(I couldn't sleep)

    So super late eggs, shell-less, one broken and maybe even membrane-less (maybe someone ate it?), thick yolk which I still found weird, and, so far 95% of the eggs I check are fertilized including the intact shell-less egg.
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    Today confirmed that more than one is definitely laying these. Saw two today but sadly I didn’t pick up the other one before a hen broke it. Will break out the calcium lime because I haven’t been refilling them as I should’ve. I only gave the chickens their eggshell back lately and by the lack of crumbs today, they in fact, needed it.
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    Most of the chickens have short, dull claws and almost no pin feathers then there's my poor single Wyandotte with almost full claws and tons of pin feathers
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    (Just letting her hang out in the bathtub, not bathing her)
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