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    chicken laid an egg without a shell - please help

    I live in Oklahoma, and we've been having a lot of warm, cloudy days lately. Whenever that happens, my (now) 2 year old Golden Sex Link named Maggie Mae has issues laying. She was egg bound twice during a very long bout of snow last year where we only had densely cloud covered skies for days...
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    Missing eggs

    First, I live in Oklahoma. It's about 87 deg here. We have 8 hens: 2 Black Sex Links, 1 Rhode Island Red, 1 Lav Orp, 4 Gold Sex Links. About 3 and a half months ago, we moved our coop and flock to my mother's home while we got our home ready to sell. We bought a home with more property for the...
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    Is something wrong?

    I'm not sure if something is wrong or not, but Maggie Mae has had issues in the past so I'm hoping for some guidance. Maggie went egg bound 2x during the cold snap we had in Oklahoma a few months ago. The temps were hitting recods lows, and we had lots of snow and ice. Her but was suddenly...
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    Anyone know anything about Lavender Orpingtons????

    I have a Lav Orpington that is at least 32 weeks old - maybe older. We rescused her, so she could be older, but we're pretty sure she can't be younger because we've had her at least 28 weeks and she was around 4-6 weeks when we got her. She hasn't started laying yet. She's not squatting. She's...
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    Help? Not sure if this is a problem.

    My girls started laying this last week. I have 6 Gold Sex Links, 1 Rhode Island Red and 1 Lavender Orpington. I know Rain, the Lavender, isn't laying. That breed is very slow to mature, and Rain is a little younger than the others. Maggie Mae, one of our Sex Links, isn't laying yet. She's...
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    Has my hen gone broody?

    We have a Rhode Island Red named Rita who is about 23-24 weeks. Several of our Sex Links are very close to laying their first egg, and 2 of them have started. I honestly didn't think Rita was close, so I didn't even bother to keep an eye on her. She laid her first today, however. She didn't even...
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    We got our first egg today - but worried

    I'd posted the other day because my chickens were getting into their 20's (weeks), but we'd not seen a single egg from any of the 7 girls. We actually have 10 total, but 3 aren't close enough to laying age yet. This morning, when I checked our boxes, there was a little brown egg with the white...
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    Are we doing something wrong????

    We have 6 Gold Sex Links and 1 Rhode Island Red that are about 21 to 22 weeks old. We're in Oklahoma, so the weather goes back and forth between the 30's and the 60's this time of year, so it's unpredictable at best. Not a single one of them has started laying as far as we can tell. We check the...
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    Unexpected chick behavior

    We have a Rhode Island Red hen named Rita that's about 14 weeks old. When we went out to close the run door (because we let them free range it most days) and the coop door because it was bedtime, we counted the chickens and came up one short. After a brief heart attack and a an extensive ground...
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    Laying age/egg bound risks

    I live in Oklahoma, and I have 7 chickens that are about to be egg-laying age. Since they are "coming of age" right when Winter is coming on and the days are getting shorter, are they at a greater risk for becoming egg bound? I wasn't planning on using artificial light, but should I?
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    Shocked!

    We have a flock of 12 chickens that are a little over 2 months old. They have a portable playpen, a permanent run and we let them run the whole yard quite often. The other night, the chicks were having a good time running free outside their run. Suddenly, Maggie Mae runs away from the rest of...
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    Jealous Jude

    I have 12 chickens. This is my first time raising chickens, and I am absolutely delighted with my experience so far. They're very sweet and curious and I've spoiled them rotten, but what's the point of having them if I can't spoil them? We got more chickens than we actually needed because we...
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    hens or roosters - best guesses please

    I have 2 chicks that are approximately 2 months old. Rain is a Lavender Orpington and Blue is a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte. Any guesses as to their sex? The first 4 pics are of Blue and the second 4 are of Rain.
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    Bullied Baby

    I have a Lavender Orpington chick named Rain that's about 2 months old. She's a weird little thing. First, she looks half plucked because she doesn't have any feathers on her butt, stomach, chest and part of her neck. It looks like she has a Hawk Mo (a reverse mohawk) The feathers she does have...
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    5 to 6 week old Barred Plymouth Rock Chick

    The chick's name is Jude, so I'm going to use the name since I don't know if Jude is a Rooster or a Hen. When we got Jude, everything we looked at (coloring, wings and vent sexing) said female. Now, we're not so sure. I think Jude is a he. Can anyone give me their best guess please?
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    Diatomaceous Earth and Chicks

    I have a small flock (12) of chicks between the ages of 4 and 6 weeks. How old do they have to be before I can start adding diatomaceous earth to their feed to prevent worms? They're just eating chick crumbles now.
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    Chick is hot to the touch and inactive

    Two days ago, we added 2 new chicks to our little flock from a hatchery. One is a Lavender Orpington and the other is a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte. The Lavender is warmer than our other chickens, but she's eating and drinking well. The BLRW is extremely hot to the touch and not very active. She's...
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    New member and new chick mama

    I'm actually joining because I have what I think is a sick chick - maybe 2 - so I'm going to post in the proper place for that. Hello to everyone.
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