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  1. MontanaChickenLady

    Egg Without a Shell

    I have a 3 year old Black Austrolorp that has recently started laying eggs without a shell. She's always been a dandy egg layer. I have no idea why this is happening and what, if anything I can do. She is getting layer feed with oyster shells mixed in. She seems to be fine otherwise and is...
  2. MontanaChickenLady

    STILL PECKING/EATING FEATHERS.......additional question

    The chicks have been getting the medicated feed that is recommended (Purina Start & Grow)...and the same stuff I fed to my very first flock. I've added protein to everyone's diet (tofu, cottage cheese, canadian bacon) and everyone also gets a scratch grain. For treats they get raisins (they...
  3. MontanaChickenLady

    STILL PECKING/EATING FEATHERS.......additional question

    Will pullets that peck/eat feathers continue that behavior as they grow and become chickens? Or worse yet........are they inclined to be egg eaters? I have two Buff pullets that are relentless toward one of the other 3 pullets they've been raised with. I've done everything I can think of and...
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    Combining Flocks - HORRIBLE PECKING ISSUE.......HELP!!!!

    I just want to be sure you understand my problem is chicks pecking on chicks.....not hens pecking on chicks. Does this information I've given change what you are telling me? Thank You!
  5. MontanaChickenLady

    Combining Flocks - HORRIBLE PECKING ISSUE.......HELP!!!!

    I have three 2 year old hens (Black Sexlink, Rhode Island Red and New Hampshire Red). The RIR is definitely the dominent hen. I have five 9 week old pullets (Black Sexlink, Black Austrolorp (was head chick), Speckled Sussex, two Buffs) that I've had to move out with the hens. It's gone only...
  6. MontanaChickenLady

    Eye pecking

    I could sure use some advice. We brought home 3 chicks on Monday (all different breeds) and brought home 2 buff orp chicks yesterday as that was the day that breed was coming in. I got 2 of them as I'd read somewhere that the BO tend to be picked on because they are so mild natured and I...
  7. MontanaChickenLady

    Egg Laying During the Night PROBLEM!!

    Thank you Fred for the information you provided. I'll give it a try to see if I can get her back in sync. Dang, and she's been my major egg layer too. Well, at least she's not being an egg eater........thanks again.
  8. MontanaChickenLady

    Egg Laying During the Night PROBLEM!!

    One of my hens (1 yr old), a black sex link.....and major egg layer is now laying an egg from her roost about every other night. She's been faithfully laying a huge egg every day since she started to lay. The egg has a hard shell all around it but it's definitely not like her regular egg. The...
  9. MontanaChickenLady

    Food and water in or out of the hen house if open to a secure run?

    This time of year I keep water inside the house at all times so it doesn't freeze and the girls have access to it during the night. Their food is always outside. My coop is on stilts and we put huge eye hooks under the coop so that I can hang the feeder and waterer and the girls can't mess in...
  10. MontanaChickenLady

    Did you glue your vinyl flooring to the bottom of the coop?

    We glued the whole floor and then stapled all the edges so they won't come up. If we ever have to put a new floor down, we'll just go right over the top of the current one. I use a plastic dust pan to clean out the shavings from the floor (inside of coop is only 4' x 6'. Works great and I...
  11. MontanaChickenLady

    *Silkie Coops!! Help!?!*

    Hmmmmm, my Silkie rooster DID roost and he also climbed a tall and somewhat steep ladder to get into the coop. Just FYI.
  12. MontanaChickenLady

    Carpeted roost, anyone else do this?

    karlamaria....where are you in Montana? I'm in Missoula.
  13. MontanaChickenLady

    Going to show off my ignorance!

    Best....Best egg layer in my little flock of 4......Black Sex Link. She has a wonderful personality, pretty much leads the pack and lays very large, heavy, brown eggs and has barely missed a day since laying. She (Hattie) is awesome.
  14. MontanaChickenLady

    height of coop

    My husband built our coop and the floor of it is waist-high for me. I do need something with a long handle in order to get to the far corners to clean out pine shavings and poop but that's easy to do. The girls have a nice area under it to hang out. I hang their feed and water under it on...
  15. MontanaChickenLady

    Monster egg from molting Sex Link

    My Black Sex Link (Hattie) is an egg laying machine also. She rarely ever misses a day and she has produced some very large eggs and so far one enormous one.
  16. MontanaChickenLady

    Freckles

    Because I rinse off all of the eggs I collect I've found the speckles are actually blood. If you rinse the egg in warm water and keep wiping at it with your hands or even a wet paper towel, you'll find the spots come off and when you dry the eggs with paper towels, you'll find the paper towel...
  17. MontanaChickenLady

    Which chicken laid this egg???

    So I'll take a shot at this. I think your brown is from your RIR and the speckles are blood. If you run the egg under warm water and gently keep rubbing at it and then dry with a paper towel......the speckles come off. This is what I've experienced with all 3 of my brown egg layers....and...
  18. MontanaChickenLady

    HELP!! Silkie attacking me ;,(

    I'm guessing she IS a HE. I HAD a Black Silkie roo along with 4 hens all of differing breeds. I no longer have the Silkie roo as he became very aggressive toward me (not my husband) and I tried working with him multiple times a day for over 3 weeks and could not break him of his aggression...
  19. MontanaChickenLady

    the shells are really hard is this normal

    I actually learned the salt and VERY COLD water trick from my mom years and years ago. Guess it came from her being around all natural foods when she was growing up. Yummmm, farm fresh milk, cream and eggs.
  20. MontanaChickenLady

    Posturing? Tensing up when getting picked up??

    Now that our mean little rooster is gone the girls are squatting for me again......and that's just a good thing......they think I'm their roo again. Mama's happy
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