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I've had our olive eggers lay different shades of green, to even a grey before because of the bloom. Same with our Brahmas one lays pink eggs-- heavy bloom. It's fun to watch our eggers as sometimes we get speckles dark mossy greens and the next day we get pale greens (we only have four Oliver...

Aww poor chick. And our little super fluffy one finally got feathers and looks to be a pullet... Granted, this group seems to be more pure in genetics than our lights brahmas and have more feathers on their feet, so maybe that whole "slow to mature" is true for this group. However if we happen...

Little update! Aside from the damn broodies all are happy and well! And don't mind the littles at all! And they love their new run expansion (details in an article)

13 weeks tomorrow. And I'm adding Chipmunk (easter egger) to the lineup because she's just too pretty not to share! On the branch with our BBs are Olive eggers who are a week older

11 weeks!

Right? It's so weird too! Our little orange/white Dreamsicle we got because her down was a pale grey/creamy color, she looked like a dove grey for the longest time, then poof! Orange lol

Could she be laying soft shell eggs and the others are eating the mess? Calcium+vit. D tablets are recommended to maybe give her a boost? Eta even if they have oystershell doesn't mean they eat it lol I have one that nitpicks it lol

I have 3 that go broody near monthly. We have a large coop/covered run (have an article for reference) Mama- buff Orpington, hatched two broods, plus broody twice just over one year old Black Australorps - have had three separate year old hens go broody, one twice now (two are currently in...

I never thought of adding that to my article. Our coop/hen house is level but the pen/run is sloped and helps with the rain. We added dirt along edge and dug where needed just for run bottom. But we also don't have a lot of predators (our coop is next to house)

I just shared some photos of our EE/OE and their color changes from 2 weeks to 10 weeks. I love how they change! And those are pretty colors!

Color changes! From 2 weeks to 10 weeks lol

We had been using 20%chick starter for our girls and still do but we get it from our local mill in bags 500# 10 bags and it sits in our second living room lol as we haven't figured out storage yet over a year later haha Eta crumbles as we can't get pellets but they love scratching it and eat...

We're getting a little attached to lol

Survivor is now Doofenshmirtz lol he's already singing/cooing for the girls for food or bugs, and his crow is hilarious still! Slightly squeaky lol

Coccidiosis? Our babies were hunched over similar. Not sure what types of medicine you have available? Worth a shot, since you said she was older ?