Posts by Marbleeeh

Olivia is pretty but a bit long, I'll definately consider it!!! :)

Awww! I really like the names Rose and Marianne. And "chicken" is a VERY BEAUTIFUL name by the way. :P Also, I like human names much better than "pet" names. I named Meow when I was way younger...

They're all gonna be hens BTW.

Well, I'm kind of switching from less than an acre to a small farm. You know what that means? MORE CHICKENS! These are the breeds I'm thinking about getting.... Leghorn Barred...

OK, good to know. She is my first bantam, I've raised two chickens from pullets and they started at 5 months. 0.o

It's probably yolkless. Things like this happen once in a while; it is nothing to be worried about.

I keep forgetting something to add, sorry! There's cayenne pepper in bother her food and scratch grains, and I don't let her free range unsupervised so she can't be laying somewhere else. It could be that she just hasn't started...

By the way, she's been acting completely healthy. The farmer I got her from told me she was 7 months old.

I just got a Silkie hen two weeks ago and she still hasn't laid. Silkies aren't exactly egg machines, but I didn't think they would go this long without laying. The other chicken I got at the same time (an EE) has started laying. She...

(I'm pretty new here, by the way) Marans are awesome... I have three chickens, and one is a Cuckoo Marans hen, who is a little egg machine.