Posts by Mrs. K

I would be expecting 5-6 eggs a day. They should be laying well by now, they should have started some where between 5-7 months.Did you raise them or buy them? If you bought them they may be older than you think, but if they are under 2,...

I have been in chickens for years, every day it is still fun to get an egg! Today, my pullets joined the team with their first eggs! I was tickled pink... green? I got a green egg!  It is a treat that never gets old!MrsK

Yes, she might give up on the eggs, but then again, she might not. I would not move her though, if you can keep other hens from laying in her nest. However, I have never heard or read about fluffing up and burying the eggs as a sign of...

I have thought of this too, no electricity near by.Last year, my egg production was pretty steady all through the winter, but my hens were less than a year old, started laying in October and just chugged along, this year, they started...

I was given a bunch of fertilized eggs, one was green. I put them under a broody hen last July. They started laying yesterday, either I had the same pullet lay two days running, as there was a green one this morning, (I had an open house...

I just like having chickens, I have found through trial an error, 8 birds work in my set up. If they are younger and smaller, and it is summer, when they free range for long periods, more will fit in. However, as fall deepens, I need to...

Once your children get bigger, then you can safely try a rooster. IMHO

I know you want to keep the rooster, but if I had a two year old, that regularly went to the hen house with me, I would not have a rooster. That is who he will attack first, often times with no warning. They can go from very nice to very...

-25 degrees this morning! Mine are not laying, but doing fine!

I like the idea myself, and any fallen fruit would easily be cleaned up with the chickens.I need a roof over my run, due to predators getting in, not so much Chickens getting out, but I am thinking that the girls would start roosting in...