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I have a 6 year old hen, laid normal eggs until last year, then began laying a roundish egg with a very thin shell. I didn't think much about it but this year it's getting worse, it's almost round with one side flatter than the other, and it has brown spots on the outside and brown "floaters" in...

This Buckeye hen is 3 1/2 years old. She's been a normal hen, laying etc. Last year she grew small spurs, and had a normal laying this past spring/summer. Went into molt late summer and now seems fully feathered except she has the hair-type bunches of feathers on her breast. They look like a...

Is this what an egg looks like when it's been eaten by a chicken, a rat or a snake or something else? I've had chickens for 6 years now and never saw this. I would think if a chicken was going to eat an egg they would not go at the end like that since the egg would be on its side, but maybe I'm...

This is so bizarre I'm baffled. I went to get eggs this afternoon and there was a chick running around outside the chicken pen! I thought I was hallucinating! It almost ran to me, and I was thinking someone was pulling a bad joke on me planting a feedstore chick outside my pen. I've put it in a...

Photo is at 4 weeks, 2 days old. Only chick that hatched for this broody. Hoping for female, is it early for the comb to be turning pink? Rooster is a Silver x Gold cross Wyandotte and the hen could have been a silver or a gold, so I know its not a good example of a Wyandotte chick. Just...

The rooster is a Silver Lace Wyandotte produced from a SLW Rooster x Gold Lace W Hen. The egg could have been from a SLW or a GLW or Black Australorp, Buff Orp, Buckeye, Cockoo Marans or Easter Egger (they all lay brown eggs - long story, but only 1 live chick). I'm leaning to another Wyandotte...

My broody only hatched one of 8 on Monday. Seems healthy and fine, and I'm sure it's OK to let her raise just one. (One egg broke in the nest around day 7, so I'm assuming contamination caused the others to not develop. One other did develop but died after hatching. I've cleaned the nest box and...

I have an experienced Wyandotte broody (2 previous clutches) and decided to let her hatch some eggs. She's in the broody pen with her own nest and been on the eggs exactly one week, no other chickens can get in. I have not been making her get up to check eggs, but today saw the eggs and there...

Took me a day or two to figure out, but set up the critter cam to make sure. I have a dozen photos and the raven waits til a chicken comes out, then goes in. If a hen is in the coop, he won't go in. The chickens free range all day so the door stays open from dawn til dusk. I've read putting...

I've noticed in the past few weeks all the eggs seem to be a shade or two lighter, except the Cuckoo Marans dark brown egg is still dark and the Ancona chicken egg is white like always. My little Egyptian Fayoumi had the prettiest ivory-white egg and now it's as white as the Ancona. The...

Not sure if this is the right place to put this, but goes to show, you really don't have to micro-manage everything. Seriously fascinating story of a man and one chicken sailing around the world...

I got one of those Flock Blocks (for chickens & turkeys, 9% protein) at Tractor Supply and put it way out for my free range chickens to find. They did and they are hooked on it. I only wanted it to get them further out and away from the house and horse barn. It worked, but they seem so fixated...

Today is National Poultry Day. Vegans or sensitive souls, please don't look. The chickens (and the dog) are captivated by bits flying off the chopping block as J readies some raw, um, chicken, (store-bought, not one of the flock) that will be dog and cat food. Dog & chickens always get to clean...

I know there is probably some world record of 300 days in a row or something, but I'm impressed with my little Ancona pullet laying 15 days straight now, one of which was a huge double yolk. Probably jinxing by posting this, but I feel like she needs a day's rest! She's my only white egg layer...

My Ancona Chicken - not a duck! - laid this giant egg day before yesterday. Annie is a small chicken, built like a roadrunner, but she's a prolific layer, and her eggs average 1.9 ounces. This one was 2.9 ounces - about 81 grams! It was a double yolk. Here it is shown on top of the other chicken...

Just curious, I have a pullet (EE) that has always sat in the egg nest facing the wall with her tail sticking out. I figured she would eventually figure out to turn around, but it's been about 2 months now. Doesn't matter if she gets in a nest with the one fake egg or after others have made it a...

My hard luck pullet Annie. She broke a leg as a youngster, recovered to totally normal, then a few weeks ago had diarrhea and just wasn't doing well for a few days, recovered to totally normal, now I'm seeing her flopped over comb is turning white. She is about 7 months old, had started laying...

ADR is my catch-all term for Ain't Doing Right. My Ancona pullet is about 30 weeks old, has laid a few eggs, her last egg was Thursday the 10th, Friday she was acting too quiet and had what looked like egg white and a soft shell membrane coming from her vent, so I caught her, pulled ever so...

I have a one and only EE pullet, she's hanging around the egg nests on & off all day, but I have never seen her nestled down in one. She comes and goes and cries a lot. I keep finding a brown egg that is either hers or an older hen starting to lay again - I haven't seen an older hen in the coop...

My Cuckoo Maran Pullet has laid several eggs from the roost with no shell, which I think is a youngster thing, as she has been in and out of the nest boxes acting like she wants to do things correctly and yesterday she finally did! The shell was thin though and the tip broke when I was gently...