Posts by raymondjames

Okay...  i was just curious because once i heard they lay a certain amount and then sit... 

Just went to The Home Depot to grab some materials. My idea is to build a construct from her box and the one before and the give her some other room with boxes and the side. It's better than it probably sounds.   But that...

okay so something weird just happened. went  to collect eggs (no eggs, probably wait til later) and i saw my beloved little hen Hope in the box. I thought she was laying but she was puffed up and everything. So i ran inside and...

thanks guys! butshe almost went broody before and she might be a frequent brooder. i also think she likes me enough to take the eggs :P. I bet this isn't the only time thank you and have a nice byc day!

I had a horrible experience with mpc. i order 12 eggs. Waited 4 days longer, then opened box. there were 9 eggs ( ***??? ) and three were cracked. Great. Half the eggs i was supposed to have, they barely developed, not even sure if...

hi byc! i'm worried because my hen might be broody and 1) i am not going to raise / do extra work for chicks. did that before, its such a pain... but i love chickens (even though the young'uns are cute, i think it is funner with the...

My chicks were fine w/o antibiotics. Unless you see they are sluggish, unhealthy, unhappy, ill, after you check with an expert, it may assist to ad a small amount of antibiotic. I gave my chicks antibiotic, and I even used less than...

Hi! Today i just had to rehome some roos... it was sad but theyre okay, but when they were handed over, the people already had silkies, which made me think.   Why are other people's silkies so fluffeh!?   Mine are a...

It is most likely random. The egg color gene is probably in both hen and rooster, and the outcome would produce blue eggs or brown. But something is telling me it would likely lay green eggs. Because the olive/greenish color is, in...

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