Posts by HathawayHens

My eggs arrived in pristine condition!  Thanks so much... I'll post pics when they hatch!  :D

Buy these eggs!!!!  Arrived packaged like little babies, all perfectly intact, down to the air cells!  :)  Now, we wait...  :P

I am officially totally excited about this... short of a full veterinary text, there has been a big need for a book like this.  I will definitely get a copy as a companion to my Chicken Health Handbook.  I feel certain this...

I'm considering this... we are zoned for chickens, but the neighbors across the street hate them... so thus far we have not kept a rooster.  But hubby and I were discussing that we might go ahead and keep one, seeing as how the...

To all on this thread:  I am a (small animal) veterinarian, and a chicken owner.  I am willing to meet with the Debary city officials if they have questions regarding illness or zoonotic diseases, if anyone thinks this would...

I have a two year old hatchery barred rock from MPC... she has a red swollen area under her vent with pinfeathers and is not laying.  She is finishing a molt.  I am not certain it is internal laying, but it feels like a water...

Hi everyone!  Does anyone have a good way to control mosquitos in the coop?  The girls don't seem all that bothered, but I can't even go out to clean in the middle of the day without getting eaten alive!  Don't want to...

Hi everyone!  I am looking for some local-ish bantam eggs to set with my son's class... we like any breeds, but this time I was hoping to get some bantams as well.  I can get LF locally... anyone know of someone selling...

soooooo... I have a broody EE setting on  8 eggs.  Due in one week, candled tonight and all look good at the moment.  Problem is that she keeps breaking eggs... I find the shell and some goopy residue behind.  I...

thanks for posting!  I had the same question!  :)