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News story about a huge egg in Ottawa, Canada: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/091005/canada/canada_ottawa_ottawa_egg_vars_mccannell

Huzzah! After taking a couple of months off, my three hybrid layers have begun laying again!! The Delawares and Black Sex Links kept right on laying through the winter. Now, instead of 4 or 5 eggs a day I am back to getting 7 or 8 which means I can go back to selling some to pay for feed...

Well... I always smile to myself when I read posts about how people only wanted a few chickens and ended up with lots, or how their plans have changed once they get started. I NEVER wanted a rooster, but a friend of a friend has a 6 month old Columbian Plymouth Rock, and I went to see him on...

For any of you who are waiting for your first egg, here is the song you are waiting to hear. This rendition is by one of my Delaware pullets, Penelope!

I have been using a small plastic waterer but the weather is getting colder fast. I would like to use a galvanized waterer on a heated base instead for the winter. Plus the galvanized waterer is much bigger. The galvanized one I have is older and is rusted around inside of the part where the...

Newbie question -- is it usual for a pullet to lay its first egg, then no more for a period of time? I have 5 girls -- 2 RIR/Barred Rock crosses and 3 RIR/Delaware crosses. Last Friday (today is the following Wednesday) I went out at 6 a.m. as usual and found my first egg! Since then I have had...