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The vet recommended eggs and worms. 🤷‍♀️ Can you please explain this? These are my first chickens. What could throw them into molt? How will I know if that happens? They are all in the same room. They can see each other and talk. They seem a little stressed/agitated because they want out...

Well, the worst happened. I was working yesterday and heard my free range girls yelling, went outside to find feathers everywhere, Boudica sitting on the ground and a Husky running around my yard. The husky was people friendly and honestly seemed confused about why I was upset. It took me some...

Thank you. Overworrier here. 😄

My chickens have a bucket with watering cups. They have to press the silver release button to get the water. This is the best method I’ve found for keeping their water clean. However, whenever I let them out of the run, they will inevitably go to the bird bath in my yard and start drinking water...

I’m so fascinated by how different each gals eggs are. They are the same breed, eating the same food and yet their unique bodies produce unique little eggs. One girl has very light speckling, one has white speckling, and one lays a darker brown with bigger speckles. Very cool, imo.

I have purchased expensive peat moss for my ladies to bath in and dang if they don’t prefer digging holes in my red dirt against my car tires! 😄 I swear they want me to break my good ankle.

You were right! It was a double yolk. First time chick mom here so this was an exciting event!

Today, I went to gather up the expected last egg in the nest box and when I picked it up I gasped! It’s easily double the size the eggs the girls have been laying. It’s massive (weighs 2.7oz). I handed it to my hubby to get his reaction and he was shocked too and said, “did this girl have a...

Thanks so much. Very fun!

4! My 4th and final hen finally laid her first egg. She was a full 34 days behind the first hen.

Looks like the chickens will be eating very good this spring in the southeast. https://www.foxcarolina.com/2024/01/22/more-than-trillion-cicadas-emerge-rare-simultaneous-explosion-this-spring/?outputType=amp

Thank you! This is such a learning process. :)

Thank you so much! This is so helpful.

All four of my ladies are BR and they are all very sweet and interactive with us. The only time they peck at one another is a little bit with treats and a little getting into spots on the roost bar. The sweetest one who gets pecked the most because she won’t peck back was my first to lay eggs...

So, can hens “hold it”? Yesterday I had a meeting away from the house (I usually work from home.) my girls generally lay between 10am and noon. The first few eggs were about 3pm. Yesterday, my hen Cleo -she’s the one who follows me the most and tries to come inside each day- came running up to...