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My chickens will not touch a stink bug. One of them tried to eat one before but spit it out instantly. Now they go nuts for night crawlers and they do like alot of other bugs.

My new flock just started laying about 2 1/2 weeks ago. I have 4 barred rocks and two buff orpingtons, so far 2 hens are laying. The others are showing the signs that they are about to lay. Anyways I'm getting two eggs a day from two of the barred rocks, they like to lay in the corner of their...

I had an ISA brown that would lay double yolk eggs every other day. She would lay a double yolk, then she would skip a day, and the she would lay a double yolk again. She did that for 6 months before she stopped laying. She had alot of issues with laying soft eggs and them breaking in her. The...

We sell ours 2 dzn for $5 and 1 dzn for $3.

The aquarium heater worked in my girls waterer. It's a 2 gallon bucket with the horizontal nipples in a covered run. The coldest we saw last year was -10*F.

Thanks for the replies. I'll keep an eye on her in case she starts laying again and has issues. Shes a good hen but tonight as I grill dinner on my porch she is chatting up a storm while eating fresh green I grew for the chickens in my garden. If she's done laying and stays in good health I'll...

I have 4 isa browns, all have been laying since January 2017. I have one I call my problem layer, she would often lay huge double yolk eggs, lay soft shell eggs often, she went egg bound once, and layed a weird conjoined egg. She went egg bound in april, I got her to pass it but she took a few...

She has been laying since mid January of this year, so only a few months.

I have a question about one of my hens laying eggs. I had an unusual egg layed this evening, it was two soft eggs that were conjoined. The hen in question layed a perfectly heathly egg this morning. Shes a 7 month old isa brown that has been laying since around mid January. She has a diet of...

I have a small flock of 4 ISA browns that have been laying for a couple months now. We normally get 4 eggs everyday and once in a while one wont lay and we only get 3 egg. Yesterday (sunday), we only got 3 eggs and the same today only 3 eggs. My wife always gets the eggs in the morning since i...

My wife and i live in town and we are limited to 4 hens per the city ordinance. No roos at all. We have 4 isa browns.

Our 4 isa browns enjoying some time in our backyard this afternoon. It was over 70 here in northern Indiana today. My wife and i spent time with the chickens afterwork.

I checked on my flock of isa browns this evening after i had change their bedding and noticed some blood drops on the bedding. I checked all four butts and found one hen bleeding front her vent area. I also found a soft broken egg layed in the coop too. She layed the soft egg very late in the...

Thanks for the replies! I collected eggs this morning and i had 4 good eggs.

Ours were loving the sun and warm weather here in northern indiana today.