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    Help! Partially Formed Eggs

    This has been going on for the last couple of weeks to baring degrees. This is what I found this morning. They get layer feed, about an hour of free range time each day, and I recently added oyster shell. Both of these shells we together leading me to believe the same chicken laid both. I'll...
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    Brittle Egg Shells

    Last week, one of our girls laid 2 eggs with extremely brittle shells. Of course, they were eaten. Not sure if they were under developed or broke in the laying process. I gave them yogurt with crushed egg shells. (This was the first time I gave them egg shells.) This morning, there were 2...
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    Chickens sleeping in nesting boxes

    When we first put our chickens in their coop, they went straight to sleep in the nesting boxes. I read not to allow them to sleep in the nesting boxes, so I boarded them up. My 6 girls are now almost 18 weeks old and we have just opened the boxes back up and put in some fake eggs. When I...
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    How do I get my chicks to go into their coop?

    It was finally warm enough for me to put my 8 week old chicks outside yesterday. They do not yet know how to climb the "ladder" to get up I to the coop. Last night and tonight at dusk, we had to go out and physically put them into the coop and close it up. Are we doing the right thing? We...
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    Finally finished

    We have finally finished our coop and run. The chicks seem to be comfortable in their new home! All we have left to do is hang the food and water.
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    What do you think?

    These are our 4 week old chicks. We have 2 Easter Eggers, 2 New Hampshire Reds, and 2 Barred Rocks. There are all supposed to be pullets. What do you think?
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    Just got our first chicks!

    My daughter and my husband built our coop for an SAE in her animal science and biotech research classes. I'll have to take a picture and get it uploaded. We just got our first chicks from Fayetteville Poultry in Fayetteville, NC. Jeremy was awesome! We have 2 Plymouth Barred Rocks, 2 New...
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