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Thank you, this is very helpful!

This egg feels hard but obviously has some issues. What’s going on?

I have two of @Al Gerhart ‘s Ratproof Chicken Feeders and I LOVE them. Our girls learned to use them quickly and the way they are designed makes them safe and effective. ✨

I’m looking for some advice on our coop bedding. We have a raised coop and use a mixture of medium and large flake pine as our bedding. Everything stays very dry, there’s currently no stinky smell but my question is, how often should this be changed out? I think I’ve found that this isn’t...

I don’t know if this is a thing but my hen’s combs change colors throughout the day and it seems to fluctuate along with their egg laying times and patterns. Are they laying?

Adding: I read that a stressful event could disrupt the egg cycle and possibly cause this - any truth to this? Night before last we had very severe weather that lasted for hours. Is that a possibility?

Ok I’m back to this thread - I have two hens, who at the same time, are laying eggs with no shell. This has never happened before. I continue to put out oyster shell AND baked eggshells. They do not get eaten. My flock currently is eating one feeder of Nutrena all flock that I’m using up and...

I’m only saying the garage because the coop area does not have electricity available.

Thank you for all the help! I’ll plan on keeping them in my garage with heat for the first three weeks and then will move them out into the run in a separate kennel. How long of the day time mingling before allowing the babies to sleep in the big coop?

We are in North Texas so when the babies arrive it will be hot. I have a 10x10 coop and a 10x20 run but most days, the hens have the option to free range on our acre grassed lot that’s available to them.

I could section the coop but then does that mean they stay in there all day and not join in the run area? This would be when they are 4 weeks old plus

We currently have 13 hens and have 3 chicks coming in June. I’m looking for good solutions on where to house them once they’ve outgrown the brooder box and prior to being able to add them to the coop with the big girls. What have you found to be the best ideas? Last time we had chicks, we had...

Here’s a recent poop pic if that has anything to do with it

I have a nearly one year old EE who was egg bound last month. We got her through it but she stopped laying entirely for a few weeks after that episode. Last week she started laying again and has been laying consistently since then with normal shells but every egg has some blood on it. I’m...

Wow, so awesome - thank you!! Congratulations to all the winners and to all the beautiful entries, thank you for letting us enjoy your gorgeous egg photos! ✨❤️✨