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    Egg bind and Calcium

    I finally figured out what was wrong with my Delaware. About once a week she has egg binding symptoms, usually manages to lay a soft/shell-less egg. I'm just glad I never had to take drastic steps to get the egg out of her. From reading lots of articles on-line, seems like calcium is probably...
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    Sick Hen- What's wrong?

    My two year old Delaware is not looking well. For the past couple weeks, she was lethargic in the morning and wobbled when she walked (maybe once or twice a week). Laid some soft shell eggs. When I came home this afternoon, she had already been in the nesting box. She stayed in there for 2.5...
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    How to Get Hens to Lay in Nesting Box?

    I have a couple hens that eat eggs, we built a roll away nesting box to help solve this problem. It works when the hens lay in the nesting box. We still find a couple egg shells in the coop. We've put in curtains (up for a few weeks now) and glued plastic eggs in the nesting box (two eggs in...
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    Hens eating eggs! Running of out ideas!

    Two of my four hens have been eating eggs for the past few months. Some days no eggs at all, some days we get all four. We try to get the eggs as soon as possible, but often difficult because we work all day. Mustard doesn't work, if fact they enjoy eating mustard. Golf ball doesn't work either...
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    Hens eating eggs! Running out of ideas!

    Hi guys, Two of my four hens have been eating eggs for the past few months. Some days no eggs at all, some days we get all four. We try to get the eggs as soon as possible, but often difficult because we work all day. Mustard doesn't work, if fact they enjoy eating mustard. Golf ball doesn't...
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