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  1. WombatChook

    Wonky first-after-moult egg?

    Quick update on the egg situation here: no eggs yesterday, although she did hang out in the nest box for a while, but this evening she stood in the corner of the yard and laid one. It appears to have broken inside her, but yolk, white and shell all accounted for. Shell softer and thinner than...
  2. WombatChook

    Wonky first-after-moult egg?

    That's quite curious, then. 🤔 The weather in Melbourne has been cooler and more unpredictable than average, and the timing of their feather loss/moult did seem weird because I presumed they'd get sunburned or something. We don't use supplemental lighting, sunrise is currently close to 7:30am...
  3. WombatChook

    Wonky first-after-moult egg?

    She's about 20 months, and after a couple of weeks of looking decidedly scruffy she's soft and glossy again. I thought the summer moult was due to their age (the oldest one is 2 years now), and the weird weather we're having in AU, but I really don't know. Hopefully it's not a reproductive...
  4. WombatChook

    Wonky first-after-moult egg?

    Hi all, I have 3 isa brown hens, that usually lay light brown, sometime speckly eggs. They have all been going through various staged of moult over summer. Two have continued laying despite the moult, and have been giving me eggs every 2 days. The third chook stopped laying for a couple of...
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    Chicken emotions/grieving? Change in behaviour after hen passing

    Thanks for the replies! The flock started out with Rocky/Sparkle and Pippi/Steggles paired off, but over the last few months (in hindsight, it was probably when Sparkle started to get sick) it switched to Rocky/Steggles - the prolific layers - and Pippi started hanging out with Sparkle more. I...
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    Chicken emotions/grieving? Change in behaviour after hen passing

    Hey all - been a while since I posted here! A couple of weeks ago, we lost one of our chickens (Sparkle, also known as the World's Most Expensive Chicken thanks to vet fees!) to (hidden for potential health trigger ) She'd been unwell for a little while, but while we did everything we...
  7. WombatChook

    How to discourage broodiness?

    Update:. We let Sparkle out of Broody Jail on Friday afternoon, and she was back to normal. Has not started laying again yet, but hasn't gone back to sulk on the nest either. I'm keeping an eye on two of the others because they're in nesting mode, throwing sticks at their back , and one did...
  8. WombatChook

    How to discourage broodiness?

    Thanks for the feedback. We'll see if we can turn the cage over tonight so she is more exposed. As it is at the moment, her cage is outside with the rest of the flock during the day, and the weather is relatively cool, so hopefully that will assist in her cooling her jets. Thanks for letting...
  9. WombatChook

    How to discourage broodiness?

    Thanks - I managed to boot her out of the nest and coop altogether (after the other 3 had laid), but she was a cantankerous fluffball attacking the other chooks. So I've put her in Chicken Quarantine / Broody Jail ( a largish chick cage like this...
  10. WombatChook

    How to discourage broodiness?

    My dramatic chicken, Sparkle, has gone broody. She has taken over one of the nesting boxes (the popular one, of course), and sits. And sits and sits and sits. And swears like a seagull any time the other chooks come near. The problem is, I don't want her broody. She's only just gone back...
  11. WombatChook

    Pullet ... Crowing??

    I have 4 pullets in my backyard. (We did have cockerels, but they were rehomed due to suburban ordinances). They're all clearly pullets, and they all lay eggs. Late last year, our then-boss pullet (Sparkle) got sick and was given medication to pause laying while she recovered. When she was...
  12. WombatChook

    Flock dynamics without a cockerel/rooster

    Thanks :) I think we'll all miss the goofy little guy, but hopefully it won't take the girls long to adapt
  13. WombatChook

    Flock dynamics without a cockerel/rooster

    When we got our chickens, we ended up with 4 pullets and 2 cockerels. About 6 weeks ago, I rehomed the louder, more dominant cockerel. The second one has come into his own, and is a delight in the backyard (loves skritches, and has never been agressive ever) - except I live in suburbia, and...
  14. WombatChook

    Overachieving Pullets!

    I have two 7mo old pullets and two 5 month old ones. One of the 7 month olds has had her egg production paused due to illness. The other 7 month old consistently lays double yolkers, a couple per week. One of the 5 month olds has started laying 2 eggs per morning, no more than two hours...
  15. WombatChook

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    4 this morning. From 3 layers. 🤔 One goes back into the nest box after *an hour* or so and sits until she's laid her second egg. The first time she did it, it had no shell (and I was envisioning another vet trip 🤦‍♀️), but since then shes popped out two perfectly formed eggs each day.
  16. WombatChook

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    2 today out of 3 laying. Well, there was a third egg, but it was broken and empty out of the coop when I found it, so I suspect it was laid in the yard and a raven got to it.
  17. WombatChook

    What is this?

    Update: shes home, withan implant to pause egg production for a couple of months while her body restores calcium levels, on antibiotics for a week, and this is what they took out of her. 😲 I'm keeping her separated from the rest of the flock (much to the frustration of my roo!) today, but will...
  18. WombatChook

    What is this?

    She's one very lucky chooken. The vet said the nail hadn't perforated her crop or anything, so if she had to swallow something like that, at least she's had he best possible outcome.
  19. WombatChook

    What is this?

    Update from the vet: Madam Sparkle isn't eggbound. She was unwell because she had found a random galvanised roofing nail in the yard (no idea where from!) and it was sitting in her crop. Galvanised = heavy metal poisoning, which is why she's been out of sorts and not laying properly. Because...
  20. WombatChook

    What is this?

    * Note: I am taking her to the vet tomorrow, the earliest appointment I could get* This came out of my 7month old pullet Sparkle just now. It is the consistency of thick custard. It doesn't smell. She tried to eat it (I removed it and put it in a container in the fridge for the vet tomorrow)...
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