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    Eggs earlier than usual

    I just got my first egg of the season earlier this week. This is about a month and a half earlier than usual -- generally I get the first eggs during the first week in March. What's going on? I don't have new chickens -- they are at least 3 years old, some as old as 6 years. I've changed nothing...
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    End of Life Behaviors

    I recently had my #1 chicken, MammaSan, die. She was almost 6 years old -- a Black Sex Link -- and a very prolific egg layer. A week or two prior to finding her dead I noticed she was moving more slowly and she started seeming "spacey" when I'd return the chickens back into the coup after being...
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    Molting and odd behavior

    My little Rockette -- #2 on the pecking order -- is molting quite badly right now. I wasn't that concerned but now she's acting oddly. She seems to be walking sideways with her head cocked part of the time. Is it that she feels badly with all the feathers going and coming? Or is this something...
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    Help - egg bound?

    One of my new chickens (~5 months old) was straining. Now she has a red bulge out her vent. It looks like it contains a partially hardened egg. I can see about a 1" portion of it and it feels pretty soft. What do I do?? She was pooping before the bulge came out -- that's why I noticed because it...
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    Hen pecking me

    I've got a young (~15 weeks) blued red-laced wyandotte who sometimes becomes aggressive with me when I get near her. Admittedly it tends to happen when I reach toward her to pick her up. She'll turn toward me and peck my hand. She's always been the smallest of the new 4 chicks we've recently...
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    Fine pine shavings okay?

    We've got 4 new chicks (2 two week olds and 2 one week olds). We couldn't get our usual shavings for their box but the bag the farm supply gave us, saying chicks love it, is quite fine. We put it in and see that the chicks are happy doing a dust bath, but they also seem to be eating it! Is this...
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    Feather eating and medicated feed

    Just introduced 3 new pullets (~10 weeks old) to the flock of 5 (1.5 year olds) this week. It's going reasonably well except I see a few of the older gals are eating the young ones' medicated feed. Is that okay? Also, I saw my main egg layer, Big Mama, eat one of the smaller chickens' discarded...
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    Easter Egger - no eggs

    I have an Easter Egger that I got in November 2016 at about 10 weeks old. She started producing beautiful blue eggs around March or April 2017 but stopped in August and proceeded to molt in the fall. It's now May 1st and still no eggs! Her sister Easter Egger followed the same schedule but...
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    Feeding new chicks with old

    My three 5-6 week old chicks will be put in a separated area of the coop/run with 5 other older hens sometime within the next week or so. We can keep them separated for as long as it takes (we're thinking a few weeks). But then once we have everyone together the new chicks will be around 10-11...
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    Molting question

    My Rockette is suddenly molting -- much later than the other gals in the flock. They are all about 14 months old now and it's starting to getting cold here in Central California (well, cold for us!). My concern is that she has these spots on her lower check and in the back underneath that are...
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    Easter Eggers - no eggs

    I've got 2 Easter Eggers that stopped providing eggs a couple of months ago. They are one year old. One was obviously molting but now her feathers are back in (looking GOOD, darling!), but still no eggs. Both have light colored combs/waddles right now. I have 6 hens total and get 2-4 eggs/day...
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    Hens scattering feed all over

    A couple of my 9 month hens have started scattering their feed out of the feeder like they are looking something. We put oyster shell in with the feed so I'm wondering if that's what they are searching for? We are in the process of putting out a separate feeder of oyster shell in case this is...
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    Tiny Egg Found

    I found a tiny (about 1 inch wide) egg outside the nest boxes today. This is from one of my Easter Eggers who has been laying perfectly fine eggs for the last three months (she's less than a year old). What's this all about??? Do I need to be concerned?
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    Rockette's first egg!

    FINALLY got my first egg. I've had my 7 girls for 16 weeks now -- they were somewhere between 6 and 10 weeks old when I got them. I've been waiting [im]patiently for the first egg. Rockette, my barred rock, was first in the nest. She's been a little ornery to a couple of other chickens lately...
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    Silver pin feathers on head and shaking heads

    Got a couple of questions: I'm noticing a couple of my chickens looking like old men! They have silver pin-like feathers on their head -- sort of like gray hair. They are roughly 5 months old. I thought maybe it had to do with other birds striping the feather, but I don't know.... The one who...
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    Excited new member!

    Greetings from Flock Mommasan! The 7 members of my flock have been with me about a month now. I got them when they were somewhere between 6-10 weeks old and boy, have they grown! The one in my avatar picture we call Salt&Peppa (Brahma). She's one of the friendliest of the bunch. I've been around...
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