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  1. 0

    Duck in “labor” when laying egg

    My silver appleyards have just started laying and one of them, Vidia, is odd. The day before she laid her first egg we noticed her butt was “heavy” (that’s what we call it - you can see their butt looks a little heavier, and since these guys have a bulldog stance it’s very noticeable). During...
    • 0iseau
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    • duck ducks egg eggs help laying
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  2. K

    Why is my chicken not laying?

    I have three hens and two of them lay pretty much everyday, but my other one, hasn’t layed in like 5 days, and she lays MAXIMUM once a week. We haven’t gotten an egg from her in awhile so I’m getting concerned. She looks fine and she isn’t walking funny so I don’t think she’s eggbound. ???
  3. Polish-Pal

    Easter eggers started laying.. then stopped

    Hello all! I have a flock of 2 buff polish, 1 white crested black polish, 1 sussex, 1 splash silkie, and 3 Easter eggers. All except the silkie were hatched April 1, so they’re approaching 6 months old. About a month and a half ago, the Easter eggers started laying. I got a super jumbo egg...
  4. EmilyAlamano

    Help! 15 hens and just a few eggs a day

    We are trying to figure out why our egg production has gone down so dramatically these last couple months, could it be that we added a rooster or pigs? Here’s lots of details - 15 hens, 1-7 eggs a day usually less than 5 Age: 10 of them are 2.5yrs old, 5 of them are 6 mo old Location: Pacific...
  5. V

    Does this look like a cream legbar egg?

    We have a few girls coming into lay right now. I’m expecting our olive egger and our CCL to lay within the next 3-6 weeks. I checked both girls to see the width of their pelvic bones and the CCL, even though she is a month younger seems to have spread further apart… 2.5 fingers versus the 1.5...
  6. Hball

    Ducks not laying eggs

    Hello! I have 1 female that just turned 18 weeks old. I got 3 more females about a month ago and was told they were a year old and the two runners were supposed to be laying, but they haven’t. Could it be due to stress from the transition or cooler weather?
    • Hball
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    • ducks eggs laying
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    • Forum: Ducks
  7. C

    Pacing chicken

    We have a 23 1/2 week old easter egger that has not begun to lay yet. Our two silkies are the only ones producing at the moment. In the last two days she has been pacing incessantly in and out of the coop all day long. She keeps going into the nesting boxes then out onto perch then immediately...
  8. madsnbot

    Can laying hens eat starter/grower feed?

    Hey y’all. So my chickens are on purina starter/grower feed and they just started laying eggs. The eggs have really hard shells and seem very healthy. I also have some chicks that are around 6-7 weeks old. I don’t wanna have to buy two different feeds for them so would it be okay to continue...
  9. spiritpots

    Chickens laying outside of coop... advise please!

    I have a small flock of six chickens and several of them have started laying outside of the coop in the flower garden under one of my windows this week. One of the chickens had been broody until about a week ago (she has not started laying yet after being broody) and I'm wondering if her...
  10. M

    Found some eggs…

    Our chickens have been climbing over our gate and laying eggs in the weeds a few feet from their pen… I would just toss them out but we found a ton, is there any way to tell if they are good or not?
  11. PileatedFarms

    Will new laying ladies know where to lay?

    We have some juvenile chickens who are gearing up to lay and are wondering if they will know to lay in the nesting boxes? They are free ranging so we don't know if they'll be wild layers or learn from the older hens where to lay. Any tips or advice? Thanks!
  12. T

    my duck has lay two soft shell eggs after a hard one

    hi there, my duck Mango has laid a perfectly fine hard egg this morning. however this afternoon she’s laid a soft shell egg followed by another one less than an hour later. she’s 2 years this november so it’s not her first lay. she has also got a good diet, layer feed eggshells and mealworms and...
    • TaylerRae
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    • duck laying soft shell soft shell egg soft shell eggs
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    • Forum: Ducks
  13. M

    Calcium balls attracted to egg?

    Hi all One of my hens (I am not 100% sure which one) has been for the past 2 weeks atleast, probably longer laying eggs with what I am assuming is calcium deposits attached to the shell of the eggs. They are super tiny round balls some of them rub off but most are super stuck. It almost looks...
  14. SarahandDucks

    Mallards laying eggs

    Help- Every few years we get some mallards through the DNR to raise & release. My 7 current mallards are about 3 months old. Today my neighbor and I found FOUR eggs: two in her backyard, one in mine, and one in our actual (tiny) duckpond. We have never found duck eggs before. What should I...
  15. B

    Easter Egg hatched

    My greenish EE egg hatched today and I was curious as to what the odds of it (if a female) is to lay colored eggs itself? The Roo is a Golden Comet... I seen different things about this but I'm kind of new to chicks and was confused with all the information out there.
  16. P

    Australorp chicken laying tiny eggs

    Hi guys, I wanted to check with yall. We purchased a few layer hens a month or two ago and I've noticed that one of my australorps have been laying tiny eggs. I'll put a picture of the eggs. The one on the left is a egg from one of our other layers and the one of the right is the tiny egg layer...
  17. J

    Double Egg

    So our chickens have only been laying eggs since May 23rd and only 4 of our hens are laying so far but today we got a double egg? I went to crack and cook a very large egg that my wife was sure was our first double yolk. I was very surprised to find another whole egg shell in the egg! Is this...
  18. T

    White leghorns not laying

    We had 15 White Leghorns. In a 24 hour period, 5 died. One lady died about 2 days later. The chickens were normal and suddenly became extremely lethargic and stopped eating and drinking. That has been about 4 weeks. Our remaining chickens are much healthier now. They are energetic and have...
  19. L

    What to feed roosters? Also what about dried calendula?

    Her have 5 chicks and 1 mama hen. Chicks are about 7-8 weeks old now. 4hens and 1 rooster. Mama just started laying again this week so we have brought out the small chick feeder for her layer crumbles and kept the large feeder full with starter/grower crumbles. Once the chicks start laying...
  20. H

    Chickens taking out the nesting eggs

    Okay..so I made an amateur mistake. When we put our pullets into the coop, we didn’t cover up the nesting box area (at the time we hadn’t finished putting the dividers in so I want sure if it mattered) One of my hens (16 weeks) laid her first egg, we found it in the run. So, we put dividers in...
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