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  1. RedwoodCoastChick

    Fake Eggs in Nesting Boxes-- Good Idea, Nah, or Meh?

    I bought 3 solid ceramic fake eggs when my 8 same-age pullets were getting close to laying for the first time. (My first flock, no veteran hen to show them.) Two brown eggs, one bluish-green (since 3 girls would be laying colors). It made them curious about the nest boxes (which they'd ignored...
  2. RedwoodCoastChick

    How did your flock annoy you today?

    Agree 100%!!! Duluth overalls have changed my life for all my chicken and garden work. So pretty, so tough, all those truly useful pockets! And now I have two fancy-print ones I wear into town on errands or to farmers markets, festivals, pumpkin patches, corn mazes, etc. and always get...
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    Open Contest Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures - 2025

    Owwwww, poor thing looks like she's part porcupine!!!!
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    Open Contest Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures - 2025

    Oh, good heavens, poor baby's the worst I've seen ever! And yet...I can't help laughing...she looks so thoroughly plucked!
  5. RedwoodCoastChick

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Rain finally arrived here in far northern Calif - 1.41" yesterday! Hoping it's an omen for a good wet winter. I was thrilled; the 8 hens were NOT. Grumpy girls glowering out from roosts in their covered run: "Not THIS again!" They're giving ~2 eggs/day mostly, and 2 have quit laying while they...
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    California - Northern

    :lau Private jet? Star Trek transporter???
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    How many hens for a 4 person household?/Potential oversupply??

    This is the second year I've water-glassed excess eggs from our 8 young hens. (BYC has lots of how-to info on that, it's very simple.) They've stayed nice & fresh for over 12 months with no refrigeration, stored in wide-mouth gallon jars in our basement/garage. Just need clean UNwashed eggs...
  8. RedwoodCoastChick

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Yup, same here...only one egg out of the 8 girls yesterday, lots of feathers in the coop & run and several hens have bare patches with pinfeathers starting to poke through. (That has to be miserable/itchy/tender?😬) Shorter days are very noticeable now, production dropped sharply from average 5...
  9. RedwoodCoastChick

    Coffee Club

    😄 Our barely 2-yr-old granddaughter is fascinated with sheep! Not something they had around their apartment in Burbank before they moved up here to rural Humboldt with us. Our neighbors have sheep (in with their rescue goat herd) and that was the only kind of critter she wanted to visit at our...
  10. RedwoodCoastChick

    California - Northern

    SO TRUE! We've lived in McKinleyville, north of Eureka for years now, and our SoCal and out-of-state friends just can't wrap their heads around the vast rural areas north of the Bay Area and maybe Napa-Sonoma wine country! We've started telling them that northern Humboldt is "almost Oregon"...
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    The Old Folks Home

    Hey there, fellow Old Folks -- it's been ages but I'm back. Our peaceful retired world got topsy-turvied when our elder daughter's marriage broke up in early 2024 and she left so-very-urban Burbank with her 2 little kids and moved in with us, waaay up here behind the Redwood Curtain to our rural...
  12. RedwoodCoastChick

    Comment by 'RedwoodCoastChick' in article 'Can Chickens Eat Organ Meat?'

    Thank you for this inspiration! As fall & winter are encroaching (the very WET season here), there will indeed be many fewer "wild snacks" for them to scratch & catch. My girls are thanking you in advance for organ meat treats to come soon!
  13. RedwoodCoastChick

    Coffee Club

    Love it! We have a neighbor down the road who collects donated Christmas trees for his pampered goat herd. He posts on our local Nextdoor social media site that he'll pick up trees to be "recycled" in this very natural manner; we just private-message our address to him & leave the tree at the...
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    Mature hen laying shelless eggs every 2-3 days - what is wrong???

    Th Thank you, Eggcessive. Likely it's because they are all due for their first molt, then. (Since we're into October now, I'm worried they'll molt just as our cold, rainy weather starts!) I still can't tell which of my brown-egg girls is laying the shell-less eggs so wouldn't know who to dose...
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    Review by 'RedwoodCoastChick' in article 'Common egg quality problems'

    Thank you for this in-depth and well-illustrated article! I've been going nuts trying to find out why one of my young hens started laying shell-less eggs regularly while all the others (same age) are laying just fine. They are all getting plenty of calcium and D3 in their rations and...
  16. RedwoodCoastChick

    Mature hen laying shelless eggs every 2-3 days - what is wrong???

    One of my brown egg layers (not sure which one) has been laying a shell-less egg every two to three days over the past ~3 weeks or so. I have 8 hens all just over a year and a half old. Three lay green or blue eggs so I know it's not one of them; often all 3 colors are there along with the...
  17. RedwoodCoastChick

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    6 eggs out of 8 girls the 2 previous days, 7 out of 8 yesterday. We've been getting 5 to 7 daily for weeks now, so quite a bounty. (They just reached full "hen-hood" this spring, all very young chickens.) I recognize which egg belongs to which hen for the most part (easy with the 2 Eggers and...
  18. RedwoodCoastChick

    The Old Folks Home

    WHOA -- life in the fast lane!;)
  19. RedwoodCoastChick

    The Old Folks Home

    Hello again, all! I haven't been able to indulge in BYC time for almost 2 months due to my old computer being on its last gasp, and especially with our peaceful retirement life being blown to smithereens by our daughter and her two littles (age 7 months and 3 years) moving in with us...
  20. RedwoodCoastChick

    What did you do with your flock today?

    After so many months of soggy weather, spring has sprung here on the Redwood Coast, so I replaced the old nasty straw bale in the chicken yard with a brand new one. The girls are enthralled -- it needs lots of scratching, pecking and pooping-upon to make it livable.
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