Recent content by Coopmom56

She’s in her second laying season.

I have an Easter egger that lays very thin-shelled eggs, and has since I got her from another chicken keeper in my town. The other hens I got from her lay regular hard-shelled eggs. I have always fed my chickens Purina Flock Raiser with free-choice oyster shell, without problems. After this...

Here are my two girls who arrived this morning, 5 weeks old, from Murray McMurray. The hatchery listed them as Red sex-links, but the supplier (who actually shipped the birds) says they're ISA Browns. Can that be true? Didn't come from Townline. No matter, they're very healthy and cute! I named...

I'm up in the Panhandle, between Amarillo and Canyon. My husband grew up in Goldsmith and travels to Midland/Odessa every 6 weeks or so.

My new six-week olds are due to arrive from McMurray next week! I can't wait. One will be a silver-laced Wyandotte. She will be the first of her breed I've had, what's your experience with them?

Thanks, aart. I broke each egg separately into a bowl as I got ready to use them. Only one looked iffy, so I discarded that one, but we ate the others without any problems. I do have golf balls in the next for these fairly new layers, and all others lay there without incident, even when...

They all sunk like rocks. Would you eat them? Fresh eggs are not so old-hat to me that I want to toss a dozen away without some thought.

My 6-7 month old EE Hazel lays pretty blue eggs - 2-3 a week. Her friend Peaches, also an EE, lays one almost every day. Today, when I went to take some leftover salad out to the girls, Hazel didn't show up. I went looking for her and heard her clucking softly, from what sounded like under...

This is my 10-week-old RIR pullet. Yours has a much more developed comb than mine.

I think you have to have at least20 posts before you can post. I found this in the "Buy/SellTrade rules" for that forum.

That most pre-fab coops are not worth the money and are usually too small for the eventual flock you will have (although the one we bought did last long enough to get them into the coop/run we built a couple of months later)

Yay! My 12-week-old pullets went up into the coop by themselves last night! Granted, they are sleeping in a pile on the floor as close to the chicken door as they can get, but baby steps...the two nights before, we put them in the coop after dark (the first night was a chicken rodeo before we...

@bluejean55girl, hahaha I was about to post the very same thing. We need some of that rain!

I have no email messages from Purina or BYC in either my inbox or my trash folder. However, I do have email notifications disabled in my BYC profile, so if that blocked the email, I'm fine with that. However, perhaps in the future you should consider making coupons available in a better, more...