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I actually have a couple of questions. I have four girls that I purchased at Tractor Supply (originally 6 but two were males and had to go). One is a production red - she is 27 weeks old and began laying at 20 weeks. There were three that said they were Brown Isis - but I'd just about bet they...

Precious is just a year old so not an older hen, but she is really big. She has beautiful eggs. My BR has large eggs as well - but never a double yolk. She is as big as Precious. Her eggs are not a dark brown - just a hint of color to them - almost white - but Precious eggs are very dark brown...

We waited until they were on the roost. The door to their ramp was closed and we just reached through the clean out door grabbed them and put them in the kennel. The man that came and got them raises chickens and he transferred them from the kennel to his cage - them were hemmed up in the kennel...

I have a large BO and she regularly lays double yolks. She is a fantastic layer and all of her eggs are really large, but seven out of every ten eggs she lays will have a double yolk. She lays an average of six eggs per week. When she first began laying occasionally she would lay a double yolk...

They were gorgeous but they have learned to crow. I got them from Tractor Supply in a straight run. Of the three Production Reds, two were male and only one girl in the bunch. The had the brightest and largest red combs and waddles and their feathers shimmered. Our city has an ordinance against...

It's a wide ramp on a gradual incline and my husband nailed strips across the ramp every six or so inches so they wouldn't slide down or have trouble getting up. It's very gradual - it goes almost from the coop nearly across the run. One went up it the other day during the day and we thought...

We got our baby chicks as new hatches. We bought three that are BO's and were sexed and sold to us as females. We bought three production Reds that were straight run and it seems we have two boys that we will have to re-home - that said we built them their own coop and run and they are separate...

My grandchildren would have a fit - they name them when we get them. We'll have to re-home them. No eating the pet chickens for us. I have no problem eating strange chickens, but the ones we raise are a whole different thing.

That's what I'm afraid of. I wouldn't mind a rooster, in fact I would like one but they are not allowed in the city limits. It's harder to give them away because no one around here and keep them. I have to find someone that will take them that lives in the county because I will not turn them...

Everyone has been so kind and I know that by now I should be able to recognize male or female, but in truth - they all look alike to me and until they are older I cannot distinguish between the sexes. I have babies that are five weeks old today. I bought them at TS and three are BO's that were...

No to free range. They are in a chicken run that is attached to the coop. She has always laid in one certain nest box, but even so I searched all around the run to see if maybe she had laid elsewhere. It's now been eight days and she has not laid an egg. I can tell her eggs from the others. The...

Is it okay to just leave the oyster shell out - I have it in a dish for them to get as they want it. The other two are continuing to lay. I hadn't thought about being broody. I'm afraid the Buff is trying to go broody. I've been having to make her get off the eggs each day. She wants to sit on them.

I have three hens that are 10 months old. They have all been laying and suddenly, the cochin just stopped laying. The other two are continuing to lay. The weather has been beautiful. She is getting plenty of sun. She is not molting. She's eating well. I supplement their feed with vitamins. They...

I want it to be female, but it's making such a weird screeching noise we were worried. They were right at 10 weeks old when we got them so I assumed that the lady that sold them to us knew the difference between male and female. I on the other hand have to take the word of whomever I am buying...

This is the one in question - the other one that I got at the same time is making a decent clucking sound now - a little off from the big girls - but this one sounds like a long, drawn out strangling cry. I couldn't really see any of the saddle feathers - but around the neck area it looks sort...