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    Help: soft shell eggs - I think I may have made things worse!

    Hello, I have five pullets - that are 25 weeks old. One started laying regularly about two months ago. The second one to start laying laid about 3-5 normal eggs, then one came out with white flecks on it. Ever since, for the past week, she's been laying soft shell eggs - they have a very thin...
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    Help - what kind of bedding in chicken run?

    We made it through the brooder stage and now my 5 six-week old hens are ready to leave my basement. In fairness, they probably could've gone to the coop sooner, but we did not have the starter coop set up. They have spent the past two days outside but we've brought them back into the basement...
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    Brooder bedding material

    We have made it to three weeks with our first ever round of 5 chicks. I have to admit, they are a joy to watch and quite entertaining. Now that they are growing, so too is the dust mess and the smells from the brooder. I started out using puppy pads for the first week and then shredded brown...
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    All four shipped arrived dead

    Our second batch of chicks ever were shipped yesterday from OH arrived in VA today dead. I knew this was a probability and now the level of guilt I feel is on another level. The box was completely intact and had no damage. The hatchery was very kind and willing to send out another order or...
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    Barely week old chicks with one playing leap frog - could this be a cockrell?

    My first batch of five chicks arrived a week ago and they are growing like crazy. One of the two buff orpington is noticably larger than the other chicks and now it is squaring off with all of the rest of them and jumping on their backs. It has been terrorizing all of the other chicks for the...
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    New to chickens - age differences in brooding.

    Hello, I preface this post with the disclaimer that while I have had parrots, I am new to chickens. I received my first batch of 5 chicks on Wednesday, the 31st of May and all seems ok (after I stopped freaking out about how tiny and delicate that they are...imagine cleaning their rumps...
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    Mixing day old chicks from different hatcheries...bad idea, no?

    Hello, I purchased 6 chicks from Meyers Hatchery in Ohio that are to arrive in June. They were sold out of lavender orpingtons - which is one I very much wanted for my first flock. I found Chesapeake Hatchery in MD and they have LOs available, along with most other breeds I purchased sans blue...
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    New to BYC from Virginia

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? While I am not new to bird keeping (macaw, parrotlet, cockatiels), I am new to chickens. We have just purchased a coop and am now placing an order for my first small/urban flock of six hens which are permitted by the city. (2) How...
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