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    EE checking out the nest box...

    Well, I have what I think is turning into a broody RIR and I just went out to check on her. In the coop checking out the nest was one of my 18-19 week old EEs. She is the one who has been coloring up the last couple weeks and she also squatted the other day so I think we're on egg-watch now.
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    How long before deciding she's broody?

    I may have made a mistake a couple days ago. I already had 3 eggs for the day (I only have 3 layers right now) and I went out a little before dusk to close the nesting box. They sleep in the box if I don't close it at night. Well, my RIR (for a commercial hatchery) was in the box so I booted...
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    Nest box sleeping.

    I have 5 hens and 2 nest boxes. They have been sleeping in the nest box since I attached it to the coop at around 15 weeks. Well, now the 3 older girls are laying eggs and I don't want the eggs to get dirty from the chicken poop that invariably collects in the nest box. I've started finding...
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    Egg Size and Color.

    I have 3 chickens who are at 23 weeks. I am getting 2 eggs a day (occasionally 1) now but I don't know which are laying. I have 2 Delaware and a RIR. The eggs are different shades of brown one is fairly brown with a little redish tint, the other much more of a coffee with a lot of milk color...
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    egg poop?

    I have 3 pullets who are egg laying age. (23 weeks or so.) 2 Delawares and a RIR. 2 of the chickens (I don't know which) are laying eggs. This evening I found the 2 Delawares eating what looked like the insides of an egg mixed in with a large poop, they seemed to be picking the "egg" out and...
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