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    Do egg bound hens usually die??

    I think I had a hen get eggbound on me yesterday. She had only just started laying and had never really got around to laying a regular hard egg; just soft shelled or no shelled membranes. I feed back their shells and added free choice oyster shell. What else could I have done differently. I...
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    All of my hens decided to lay outside the coop yesterday. Any Ideas?

    I went away for 5 days- left the ladies locked up in the coop for 2 days -and the neighbor let them out the others. When I got home there were eggs in the coop, but bhind the coop by my fence there were 4 eggs(appeared to be 1 each from the 4 that are laying-easily identified by color). It was a...
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    How might I keep my free ranging chooks off of DW patio.

    My DW loves seeing the chickens free ranging, but they have picked the fig tree next to our patio to hang out under during the heat of the day, and will often take a stroll on the patio leaving behind evidence of their walks.
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    Roo picking on a different girl every day

    I got home last night to a pullet that did not want to go in the coop because the roo was attacking her. My DW told me he had been chasing her all day. A few days before that it was one of the RIR pullets he was picking on all day. The question is, will this aggressive behavior stop when the...
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    will a double yolk egg produce two chicks??

    or will one chick just absorb tow yolks. Seems to me it might be a bit crowded with two chicks in one egg.
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    missing lady

    Came home from work this evening and went to close the ladies up in the coop. Took count and came up one light brahma short. My light brahmas tend to do most of their free ranging away from the roo and other hens and I tended to worry about them a little because of that. We have some beautiful...
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    tandoori bbq chicken

    I work with a lot of people of Indian heritage and enjoy cooking. One of their recipes called for tandoori powder. When bbqing chicken I remove the skin and sprinkle on tandoori powder, then refridgerate for a couple of hours. I then cook as normal on the grill, applying my favorite bbq...
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    New member from Valley Springs, calif.

    have been reading the forum since before I got my chicks back in feb.; what a great source of info.
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