Recent content by chickly

Bursting rotten eggs sounds like a good reason not to leave them! I don't believe in the golf ball thing--maybe I just hate to think my girls are that easily deluded. Where does one find "real" fake eggs?

I have 7 new hens that came to me already laying but I am not finding many eggs in the nesting boxes. I think the nesting boxes in my coop look a bit small for the hens. We made them according to specs we found online before we had chickens but now that I see them and the size of the...

I'm wondering if I can just leave the eggs in the nesting boxes to encourage their use(marking them for identification of course) Unsure why people are going out to purchase fake eggs--Is there something the hens don't like about the old eggs being there?

I'm new to this forum (and any forum in fact) as well as new to hen-raising. I had 7 delightful hens born on the 4th of July and thus not laying yet. A week ago I acquired 7 more hens that had started laying a couple months ago. I was worried about the transition but one hurdle is over--they...