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    Thin shells - help

    She’s in her second laying season.
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    Thin shells - help

    I have an Easter egger that lays very thin-shelled eggs, and has since I got her from another chicken keeper in my town. The other hens I got from her lay regular hard-shelled eggs. I have always fed my chickens Purina Flock Raiser with free-choice oyster shell, without problems. After this...
  3. Coopmom56

    ISA-Brown page. :)))))))

    Here are my two girls who arrived this morning, 5 weeks old, from Murray McMurray. The hatchery listed them as Red sex-links, but the supplier (who actually shipped the birds) says they're ISA Browns. Can that be true? Didn't come from Townline. No matter, they're very healthy and cute! I named...
  4. Coopmom56

    Texas

    I'm up in the Panhandle, between Amarillo and Canyon. My husband grew up in Goldsmith and travels to Midland/Odessa every 6 weeks or so.
  5. Coopmom56

    Texas

    My new six-week olds are due to arrive from McMurray next week! I can't wait. One will be a silver-laced Wyandotte. She will be the first of her breed I've had, what's your experience with them?
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    Hiding eggs

    Thanks, aart. I broke each egg separately into a bowl as I got ready to use them. Only one looked iffy, so I discarded that one, but we ate the others without any problems. I do have golf balls in the next for these fairly new layers, and all others lay there without incident, even when...
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    Hiding eggs

    They all sunk like rocks. Would you eat them? Fresh eggs are not so old-hat to me that I want to toss a dozen away without some thought.
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    Hiding eggs

    My 6-7 month old EE Hazel lays pretty blue eggs - 2-3 a week. Her friend Peaches, also an EE, lays one almost every day. Today, when I went to take some leftover salad out to the girls, Hazel didn't show up. I went looking for her and heard her clucking softly, from what sounded like under...
  9. Coopmom56

    Roo or hen?

    This is my 10-week-old RIR pullet. Yours has a much more developed comb than mine.
  10. Coopmom56

    Solved how do I start a new thread on the forum page?

    I think you have to have at least20 posts before you can post. I found this in the "Buy/SellTrade rules" for that forum.
  11. Coopmom56

    Things You Wish You Would Have Known?

    That most pre-fab coops are not worth the money and are usually too small for the eventual flock you will have (although the one we bought did last long enough to get them into the coop/run we built a couple of months later)
  12. Coopmom56

    Texas

    Yay! My 12-week-old pullets went up into the coop by themselves last night! Granted, they are sleeping in a pile on the floor as close to the chicken door as they can get, but baby steps...the two nights before, we put them in the coop after dark (the first night was a chicken rodeo before we...
  13. Coopmom56

    Texas

    @bluejean55girl, hahaha I was about to post the very same thing. We need some of that rain!
  14. Coopmom56

    ⠀ Day 1: Tell us where you bought your feed. *To be eligible to win you must post between May 2 – 16,

    I have no email messages from Purina or BYC in either my inbox or my trash folder. However, I do have email notifications disabled in my BYC profile, so if that blocked the email, I'm fine with that. However, perhaps in the future you should consider making coupons available in a better, more...
  15. Coopmom56

    Texas

    I'm sorry about your Pekin girl. Thanks, Ren2014 and all the others for the comforting posts. I know it's a part of keeping chickens (or other animals) but...still it's sad. We've lost more than our share of dogs over the last couple of years (we tend to adopt the older ones) and though I...
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    ⠀ Day 1: Tell us where you bought your feed. *To be eligible to win you must post between May 2 – 16,

    Robinson's Feed Store, Amarillo Texas
  17. Coopmom56

    Texas

    Hi all, I had my first chicken casualty this weekend. My little Edith was fine on Thursday (free-ranging and dirt-bathing and bug-eating) but Friday she couldn't walk very well and was very lethargic. I was fortunate to find a vet here who would see her Friday afternoon and he prescribed an...
  18. Coopmom56

    Would adding new chickens cause my current hens to stop laying?

    Thanks for the reply, aart. The new girls are not yet in the coop/run, they're in a separate pen right next to the run. I'll check the yard for eggs, but I'm out there pretty often and haven't seen any yet - not many places to hide them in the west Texas buffalo grass where they free-range...
  19. Coopmom56

    Texas

    We once had a close encounter with a flock of wild turkeys on the way from Abilene to Brownwood. They would have done some damage had we hit them, since they were flying about windshield-high when they crossed the road. Sorry about your vehicle - it costs a fortune to fix a car these days
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    Would adding new chickens cause my current hens to stop laying?

    Thanks, Mountain Peeps. I am feeding Purina Flock Raiser, which has 20% protein, I think, and giving oyster shell free-choice. They have plenty of water in a two-gallon cooler with a Britetap waterer, which I replenish every couple of days, way before it runs low.
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