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  1. Dave TBG

    Down to 2 hens, now what?

    We started this chicken journey a little over 3 years ago. We hadn't planned to have more than a few and had planned to get one of those pre-fab coops that claims to be big enough for 8-10 chickens and found a spot in our tiny suburban back yard where it would fit. After some research we...
  2. Dave TBG

    Now that's an egg!

    Just took an egg out of a nesting box and as I walked back to the house I realized that it felt large in my hand. Petunia, a 7 month old white Leghorn, is my smallest bird but she lays the largest eggs, usually 73-75 grams. This one just felt bigger so I broke out the scale.
  3. Dave TBG

    Laying in her sleep???

    For the last couple weeks, we've found an egg in the poop tray before sunrise most mornings. It seems that one of out pullets has been dropping eggs from the roost in the dark. Everything I've read seems to indicate that egg-laying is a day-time activity, but I guess my chickens haven't read the...
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    Is it normal to get a few eggs from a new layer, and then nothing for a while?

    This is all new to me and have no idea what's normal. I also have no idea if I need to do anything other than wait. I brought home 4 "day old chicks" on 5/5, 3 of them were probably a few days old (they'd been there a couple days) and the 4th was noticeably larger and may have been left from the...
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    Shell-less not-exactly-an-egg?

    I found something odd in the coop today and I'm not sure what it is. I'll get to a description in a minute, but the backstory might help. We have 4 pullets that we're "day old chicks" on May 5th, I'm pretty sure they were there for a couple days by then and 1 was quite a bit bigger so, maybe a...
  6. Dave TBG

    I'm not even sure how I ended up with chickens.

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? May 5th, it's not something I'd even considered until May 4th. I went to the store for an impact wrench and my wife and son saw the day-old chicks. I managed to get them out of there that day but spent the next 24 hours reading...
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