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**Update** The food dye didn’t work, other than giving us multicolored poo. Lol. Not sure if it was too cold to work right or what. I’m going to have to come up with another way to figure it out. Thanks for the help everyone!

Same here. Ours usually just do the basic bacteria and metal testing, which we use for maintenance. But it’s definitely worth checking!

We are near the IN border, and we’re upstream on the Miami River, so we probably won’t get ours tested. But If you’re downstream I’d definitely get it tested.

When we moved into our home here in OH we used this product to test our well. I liked it because it had pre- and post- water filter testing. https://mytapscore.com/products/simple-water-home-test Their advanced well water testing kit lists vinyl chloride and benzene as being tested. I’ll...

Hi! Just my two cents as a chemist—I would still get your well independently tested. There are mail order kits that are great. The VOCs like vinyl chloride and the other compounds that spilled take a while to leech into the ground water table, but once they’re there it’s almost impossible to...

@azygous Is there a way to dye or paint their vents to determine which is laying the weak eggs? I’m fairly certain it’s one of my Wyandottes laying the weak egg and the Australorps are laying double yolks. But not all of them. I just don’t want to give them extra calcium if I’m not certain...

Yeah, they are paper thin with very little calcium on the outside. I will try to figure out which one it is. She lays before 6am so I usually find the egg asap so they don’t try to eat it.

Hi all, My girls are 22 wks old and just starting to lay eggs. Most of the eggs are normal, with hard shells and the occasional double yolk. At least one of my girls (maybe two) are laying brittle eggs. How long is this considered normal for new layers and is there anything to do besides offer...

Here are the two I was looking at, particularly the whole grain option. They also make a corn/soy free option at 4.5% fat that I can post if you want.

Thank you all for confirming this for me. I really appreciate it!

Hi all, First time chicken owner here. My gals are 22 wks old and starting to lay. I have been feeding them the Henhouse Reserve from Kalmbach. I found a local feed mill that has way better prices on similar layer feed, but when I looked at the nutrient breakdown their %fat is at 8%! That...