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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    I know this now! Haha. I enjoy the girls a lot in the overall, but I miss out on A lot of things with the family because I’m left to triage what’s happening at home. I have to struggle to find people To sit them when we go on week+ vacations. We’re literally “backyard chicken” People in that we...
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    Honestly, I think I’m done after this unless I can get 100+ birds … at least then I know I can’t keep up with specific health issues in a flock like that lol. The biggest thing is that these are my 6 year old’s Favorite animal — and technically pets so of course I’ve pushed myself to be vigilant...
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    Pretty much No.. they are confined to a run. unfortunately our town doesn’t allow Free range.
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    Man that's crazy... I'm sorry for those losses! :( I guess these poor BOs aren't long for this world. Dang... I'm hoping my one girl is just molting. She visits the nest box though so... yeah! I totally thought it was just the heat before! .. But now its you know, in the low 70s and...
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    I got mine from a feed store associated with Agway, they took orders for breeds. I want to say they came in a Hoover hatchery box?
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    Not excessive or overt I don’t think.. though there was a period last year when everyone was sneezing. Not like crazy but noticeable. My one girl has always had funky looking eggshells too. Does IB wreck them reproductively??
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    Ugh the worst that it’s so variable…
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    i knew I forgot something in my spiral. The internal layer is a runted Buff Orpington who, a week earlier was flying up onto people’s shoulders. The one with the funky eggs is a Delaware. She looks… genetically not sound (strange wing feathers that stick out, not great markings)
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    My girls are 1 year and 4.5 months. We had 6 when we started. Lost a girl who showed very early maturation signs early (looked like a whole cockerel at 8 weeks, first laid at 13 weeks. Liver hemmhorage at 5 mins months) Now one of my girls, who has been laying and being normal, stopped laying...
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    My hens stopped laying

    What the heck. Two of my five stopped as well.. but it turns out one of them is internally laying… at a year and 4.5 months The other might be as well.. but I can’t tell. But she’s had funky egg issues for a month now. i Have no idea what the hell is going on…
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    Chicken Acting Weird

    How’d this turn out for you?
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    Poop check

    I’ve had her on calcium +d3 for 3 days now. Exact brand. They are on nutrena layer feed and free oyster shell. I noticed her eggs were getting bigger and bigger then they just starts to be soft shelled. Then she went from one to the other and now this. In Thinking about getting baytril from...
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    Poop check

    I have a girl who has been having soft / no shell eggs, HUGE eggs, no eggs over the last month and she’s bee. Pretty poorly today. This is the first time I’ve seen poop like this and she’s sleeping in the back of the run. Totally unlike herself She expelled eggs that had broken in her but she...
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    Soft Egg

    ‘Ay I ask what happened here? Have a similar case
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    Just got back from a week away and …

    It has been dry as far as I know, our chicken sitters were cleaning up the run and coop daily of poop… I guess she had to have been injured somehow but I don’t know how. They’re in a secure run (we can’t free range) unless she got both feet caught under a root they dug up or something??? I...
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    Just got back from a week away and …

    My Wyandotte’s feet look like the is They were covered in black which I figured was poop. I washed it off and they look like this underneath. Any ideas what could have happened? Chicken sitter and mother didn’t mention anything unusual. They didn’t look like this when I left, everyone was was...
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    Soft shell, heat/humidity spike, MASSIVE EGGS… soft shell..

    Here’s a recent poo
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    Soft shell, heat/humidity spike, MASSIVE EGGS… soft shell..

    I have! She takes a few bites and then goes “meh”. Same with yogurt. Scrambled egg she ate more of.
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    Soft shell, heat/humidity spike, MASSIVE EGGS… soft shell..

    Yeah I gave her one this morning. She looks exhausted by this hour though. Temps have been better but she consistently gets sluggish and uninterested in food around 4pm my time. She hasn’t filled her crop at night in a couple days.
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    Soft shell, heat/humidity spike, MASSIVE EGGS… soft shell..

    I have a Delaware who, As far as I can tell has always laid eggs with meat spots in them. She’s about a year and a half. A week or so back she looked off. Overnight she laid a normal egg and a soft shelled egg. Didn’t lay for a couple days. Then the heat came with indexes of 105. Suddenly her...
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