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    Brown egg layers now laying white...

    Not sure which girls started laying white eggs. I lost my only white egg gal earlier this year. I suspect it's 2 of my 3 sex links. They are 3 this year. Is this normal age-related stuff or should I be concerned? Pic attached of today's eggs. TIA!
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    New baby (pic)! And a couple questions.

    One of our easter eggers went broody and we let her. This is our first year with roosters (Feb hatch.) She is hoarding a clutch of 17. The first 5 she sat on were 21 days old yesterday. She gathered this clutch over a 2 week time span. We aren't expecting all of them to hatch or for her to have...
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    Behavior question

    Hello! I have a couple questions. We ordered a few exhibition RIRs back in February for my kiddos 4h project. We ended up adding 2 cockrels and 3 pullets to our existing flock of 9 hens. Info from the hatchery said about 6 hens to a roo. We have just the right size flock for that. Integration...
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    Gifted an older incubator...

    We were gifted an incubator. We have just completed our first year with chickens. So I am a blank slate. The person who gifted it to us, thought he might have a friend with fertilized eggs we could try. He said he'd see if he could locate some. We do not have a roo for our pwn girls. If he is...
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    Liquid Urates

    I've got a young easter egger. She began laying in January, she will be a year old end of June. She's laying every other day. Acts and looks normal. Shortly after she began laying we had a heavy wet snow, and the girls went bananas scratching in it. That afternoon I found a poo on the patio...
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    We got our first egg!

    Just had share somewhere I know the excitement will be understood. Our first egg today, it's 0 degrees with the wind chill, and barreling towards the shortest day of the year. We are so excited, I just posted a few days ago asking if I was doing something wrong or had an issue because our first...
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    A couple questions

    Hi again! I have a couple of questions. Quick background since I'm new, but I did intro myself a while ago. We started with 3 chicks in the end of April and by end of June added 7 more to the flock. They free range in our fenced yard. We have multiple breeds. Ancona, black stars, easter eggers...
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    Introduction and gender opinions

    Hello! I'm a newb to chickens, but have been creeping and reading on here for the last 4 months-ish. My family are larger livestock people (horses and cattle). We have 10 chicks, 2 different ages. A batch of 7 that are just over a month old and three at a smidge over 12 weeks. The initial 3...
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