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I ordered 6 WTBs with 9 RIRs eighteen months ago from a Murray McMurray. All chicks were healthy and thrived. BUT, it took 5-6 weeks longer for the WTBs to start laying, the eggs are a little smaller and a very pale blue (I expected a bit bluer), and they don’t lay nearly as many eggs as the...

I planned to do it as soon as it was light enough tomorrow. The girls are housed in a stall in the barn (reinforced like Fort Knox to keep predators out) and their run is in the breezeway.

I think there's something wrong with one of my RIR pullets. She keeps bobbing her head - first to one side, then to the other, then back again (kind of like Stevie Wonder). My girls are just over six months old and started laying last month. She didn't want to go in the coop last night when the...

I’m going to try putting the ceramic eggs back in all the nest boxes as suggested by aart. Can’t hurt, and maybe they’ll figure it out.

Started getting eggs on Dec. 5th when they were just over 21 weeks. I don’t know who started first, but within three weeks, I was getting 8-9 eggs daily from the nine RIRs. I have no idea the pecking order. I do know one of the Whiting True Blues seems to be the dominant girl, but the WTBs were...

5 nest boxes for 15 pullets. I used ceramic eggs starting when they turned 18 weeks, and kept them in the boxes for a month and they seemed to get the idea and used the boxes. Except these two. And it always happens over night. The eggs are cold when I open up the coop in the morning (when it’s...

Oh goodness, I'm so glad I searched for this very question! Out of my nine RIRs, two of them drop their eggs while roosting. I know they aren't actually laying them in the shavings below the roost because the eggs are standing upright in the shavings. And they are always in the same spots every...

Thank you for your reply. I have already purchased the layer feed, which is what I intend to feed them. I’d just like to know how soon I can start introducing it to them.

I am probably overthinking this, but here goes... My pullets are 15-1/2 weeks old now, and have been on starter feed since day one. I know that at 18 weeks they should be transitioned to layer feed, but do I start introducing it sooner (like at 16 weeks) so they are gradually switched over by...