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    Speckled Sussex laying weird eggs...please help!

    I've been mixing oyster shell with some yogurt and she has been gobbling it up... Will that work too? She laid this one late yesterday afternoon and it's probably the most normal one she has laid in awhile but it has the calcium deposits. So when they moult how long does it take and do they...
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    Speckled Sussex laying weird eggs...please help!

    I feed them Scratch and Peck layer feed, Oyster Shell, and I grow my own meal worms that I offer as a treat every few days.
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    Speckled Sussex laying weird eggs...please help!

    Yes, I offer oyster shells
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    Speckled Sussex laying weird eggs...please help!

    She turned 1 in May and she has been laying normal brown eggs since about 6 months up until the last 3 or 4 months. Her eggs are either white, almost opaque looking, or shell-less, or have calcium deposits on them. They are not normal anymore. At one point, I thought she was egg-bound and gave...
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    Barely got my 2nd egg on video!

    Hi friends! Yesterday I got my first ever egg from one of my 4 girls. I was sad to not know which one it was but I caught my SF dropping an egg about a half hour ago. She was acting strange all day. She was running back and forth like she was trying to find a place all morning and then she...
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    Need advice on how to make nesting box more appealing

    Thank you so much! When they were chicks, I thought repurposing those feeding buckets would be a great idea...now that they are full grown, I'm thinking no because they seem too small now for my girls. Do you have any other suggestions about replacing the buckets with something else? Should I...
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    Need advice on how to make nesting box more appealing

    I got my first egg!!!but it was on the ground Golf balls in buckets to influence them Are the buckets too small? These are my first chickens and so I am just figuring it out as I go but I think I might have gotten the nest buckets wrong...what do ya'll think? Any advice, tips, or...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    Yippeee!!!! I got my first egg! I have no idea which one of the 4 layed it but they did not lay in the nesting box...it was on the ground next to the coop
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    Feeding layer at 19 weeks?

    Thank you!!! I love them so much and they are so much fun to watch. Getting eggs from these gals will just be icing on the cake :)
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    Feeding layer at 19 weeks?

    Cool! I will stick to the grower :)
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    Feeding layer at 19 weeks?

    Thank you so much for the info and advice. I will buy another bag of grower for them. I do let them free range and I grow my own meal worms for them. I also give them black oil sunflower seeds on occasion as treats.
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    Feeding layer at 19 weeks?

    Black Australorp, Salmon Favorelle, Lavendar Orpington, & Speckled Sussex :)
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    Feeding layer at 19 weeks?

    I am raising my 1st small flock and I have enough grower to get me through this week. My chickens will be 19 weeks on the 26th. Can I start them on layer a week early? I feed them scratch and peck feed and they recommend starting layer at 20 weeks. I hate to buy another bag of grower for just 1...
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    Picking and Isolation

    I have my first chicks. Four 8 week old chickens, BA, SF, LO, SS. My 8 week old Black Australorp is picking my Salmon Favorelle's back until it was bloody. I separated the SF for 1 night to give her a rest and then I sprayed Scarlex on her back and put no-pick cover up lotion on her so she could...
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    Gender identity for 4 different breeds at 7 weeks old?

    Yippee!!! Now just gotta get them to all get along
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    Gender identity for 4 different breeds at 7 weeks old?

    Woohoo!!! Thank you!
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    Gender identity for 4 different breeds at 7 weeks old?

    Yay!!!! Thanks for looking and responding :)
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    New to chickens and so confused about pecking order, please help!

    Thanks for the advice! I have them on Scratch and Peck starter(20.5% protein)...it says to leave them on that until 8 weeks and then switch them to grower, which has 17% protein. I have a dust bath box for them in the run and right now the LO and SS are in that together hanging out. The SF is...
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    Gender identity for 4 different breeds at 7 weeks old?

    Yes, SueT. I bought them as day old chicks as females but I understand there is room for error on sexing chicks. The place I bought them from has a guarantee on sexing but I have read that they still can make mistakes :(
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    Gender identity for 4 different breeds at 7 weeks old?

    I hope I don't have any roosters because I can't have them in my neighborhood :(
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