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...
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?
Contrary to your experience, my EEs are the sweetest of my flock. My Hazel (named after my grandma in heaven) chases me around until I pick her up. I usually lay her on her back in my hands and stroke her neck and breast and she sticks her legs straight out and goes to sleep. Haha! Her friend...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I'm sorry about your Pekin girl. Thanks, Ren2014 and all the others for the comforting posts. I know it's a part of keeping chickens (or other animals) but...still it's sad. We've lost more than our share of dogs over the last couple of years (we tend to adopt the older ones) and though I...
Hi all,
I had my first chicken casualty this weekend. My little Edith was fine on Thursday (free-ranging and dirt-bathing and bug-eating) but Friday she couldn't walk very well and was very lethargic. I was fortunate to find a vet here who would see her Friday afternoon and he prescribed an...
Thanks for the reply, aart. The new girls are not yet in the coop/run, they're in a separate pen right next to the run. I'll check the yard for eggs, but I'm out there pretty often and haven't seen any yet - not many places to hide them in the west Texas buffalo grass where they free-range...
We once had a close encounter with a flock of wild turkeys on the way from Abilene to Brownwood. They would have done some damage had we hit them, since they were flying about windshield-high when they crossed the road. Sorry about your vehicle - it costs a fortune to fix a car these days