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In the last two days I have gotten several eggs from my girls that are very watery and the yolk seems to already be broken. Twice one of my hens has laid a broken yolk with nothing else, just "sploop" yolk, nothin else, then all the chickens start eating the yolk, so I know it was yolk, not thin...

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Well, it's getting cold here, and while I have not seen a drop in egg production like I was expecting, the eggs have gotten smaller. is that normal?

I have a flock of twelve hens, six that are just now old enough to start laying sometime this month, and six that were advertised to be laying 4-5 eggs a week each. Since I brought them home they have been giving me maybe an egg or two a day (between all of them) they have unlimited access to...

Ok, so I know this is probably a stupid question, and I will begin by saying that I have not mixed this in with anything yet, I have simply strained it, put it in its own container, and put it in the back of the fridge. So, I have goats, and I was bringing in the milk today when the water I...

One of my heads is being very listless, when I went to check on them this morning, she wandered off with the rest of them and hid under the rabbit hutch, when she was still there a couple hours later I went to check on her and her eyes are gunked shut and she is wheezing a little. Does anyone...

I recently got some chickens, I built the coop myself with salvaged wood, an idea of what it was supposed to look like, and determination. It turned out really good, the lady I bought my chickens from was surprised to find out that I just kind of made it up as I went. I have several projects...

Hello, my name is Kasey, I recently got myself several hens who will be laying very soon. I have done as much reading on chickens as it is possible to do, and now the only thing left is to get experience I can't get without owning chickens. I'm actually starting a whole mini-farm. I've been a...

I recently acquired some five month old hens. they have been confined to their coop for four days, and this evening I let them out about an hour before sunset to roam a little. Just as it was getting too dark to read, I put down my book to herd them back into the coop and they were walking into...