I may have a stupid question, but as an amateur, I'd still like to know the answer. Background: Our coop is now too small for our girls (we intend to upgrade as soon as is financially possible). There's no rooster, and everyone appears to be well, and get along just fine. We built them a...
This month marks the first eggs we've gotten out of our girls. We have six, and the first couple eggs were small, and only showed up every few days. I don't know who's laying and who's not, but we went almost a week without anything, and then yesterday we found five new eggs all in one box...
Yay! Thanks everyone! I'm SO RELIEVED to know that it's normal. The bulge was more off to the right; which is, it sounds like, right where it's supposed to be. Thanks again! I can sleep peacefully tonight knowing that my girls are just fine.
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Ok, so I'm totally new to the backyard chicken thing. I got my first flock this spring, and my hens are laying eggs. I have been giving them the proper feed at the proper times, and when the first egg showed up in the coop, I built nesting boxes, started giving them pellets, grit, and oyster...