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Thank you! I did decide to just toss them into the trash. It's not that big a deal.

Yes, this, and also my hens tend to get into the compost pile. Apparently it is their right to do so, or that is what they tell me...

Thank you. Tossing them seems wisest to me, too.

Ha, mine too! Using the limed eggs for baking, mostly, since I hate to waste them after the girls put in the work laying and I preserved them. ;)

Brisk but sunny here today. :) Has anyone preserved their eggs in lime solution? Is it safe to give shells from those eggs back to my flock, or is it safer not to do so?

Got him cleaned up, thanks!

Well, I can make a fair guess as to how he ended up with poop on his comb, but should I try to clean it off? Brushing with a dry paper towel didn't do much more than confuse him, but temperatures are also going to drop below freezing tonight, so I'm cautious about using water with gentle soap...

So just one more (God willing) update on Mini, who laid a lovely egg and then bowled her way between two Australorps to get some mash before being chased off by another bird (I may put a saddle on her until those feathers grow back in...) and taking her wrath out on a couple of Plymouth Rocks...

How funny, I've been saying the same thing for a couple of weeks. Just something in the air, maybe, or figuring we are about to get slammed because last year's was so mild as to be almost nothing, save the Christmas blizzard.

Thank you, that was my fear. That said, I just checked on her again and she continues to seem perfectly fine!

Well, now she has stopped completely and is ensconced in her favorite nest box. Breathing sounds fine. Her eyes look dilated, but it is quite overcast. Did she just get herself into trouble somehow? BTW, her name is Mini. She is a little hen but had a gigantic personality! She is a favorite...

Just this morning my Buckeye hen began doing this. She had just been squawking away. What is going on?! 1) What type of bird , age and weight 13 month old Buckeye hen, about five pounds 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Coughing/sneezing, bubbles in eyes Odd breathing 3) How long has the...

Recess. :)

Ha, also enjoy my house. 😄

Due to a temporarily insane broody (you can read my thrilling Independence Day thread), we have a quintet of peeps in a temporary brooder this week... In our living room (our home is quite small and this really is the only option until we move them into the coop brooder, where we typically brood...

@Allsfairinloveandbugs I hope so!

Just wanted to drop another update--all peeps are doing well. Chaplin worships the one peep she hatched out without throwing from the nest, and the other five are happy and doing well in a (larger) emergency brooder. We will likely have them in the coop brooder soon. Thanks for your help! 💐...

@Allsfairinloveandbugs @Yardmom Thank you both! I may just keep things as they are, then. And I have NO IDEA what this chicken math you speak of is. None at all. *adjusts halo*

Thank you, this is excellent advice. Well, it sits more comfortably with me, anyhow! :D But I appreciate it, thank you. That's what we will do. 💐 Will the solitary chick be okay with the broody? She and the chick left the nest itself this afternoon, and the other eggs were no good (candled to...

So another update: We ended up keeping the chicks in the mudroom last night for various reasons (my having been under the weather being part of this). This morning we found one more happy peep and two unhatched eggs beneath the hen, who fluffed right back up in her nest over the chick already...