Posts by Curious1234

I've heard that the maximum lifespan of a chicken is 30 years! I would have never guessed that they live so long!   Just curious, what was the oldest chicken you have ever had?

Thank you for the input, Keltara and Azygous!   Because we didn't have time to go buy a crate last night, we just removed the nesting box and any other box she could sit in...so she had to sit on the perch and sleep. And this...

Quote: Originally Posted by Keltara  I understand that you don't want to buy a metal crate, but honestly the quickest and easiest way to break a broody is to sleep her in your garage with a fan gently blowing on her...

Quote: Originally Posted by foxy2320  I don't know about the beak, but my girls of the same hatch and breed started laying a few weeks apart. I know it's hard, but don't get too worried yet. I don't know that the...

I have 4 hens I bought as tiny chicks last May. Since then, they have become very nice little hens but about 1.5weeks ago, I noticed that one of them would just sit in the nesting box all day! And not do anything else. After some...

Turned out a girl! Got our first blue egg this week.

So I bought 4 pullets back in May. Last week, one of them, a buff orphington, which was actually older than the other 2 started laying eggs. The other two, which are EEs, started laying eggs this week. The other buff orphington which...

Quote: Originally Posted by donrae  Pullet. I have a similar colored mixed breed hen with ee in her background. When that reddish brown started coming out, I mentally wrote her off as a cockerel. I've really looked at...

Quote: Originally Posted by hdowden  can you get a pic of the saddle area i think its a cockerel based on the hackles but the comb and saddle( from what i can see say pullet)...if this one is indeed a pullet she is...

    No cock-a-doodle-dos and brown feathers popping out everywhere!! When s/he was a baby, people said it was a boy for sure. A few weeks ago, people were saying it was for sure a girl. How about now? What do...