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I do know that my green EE layer sometimes turns out a blue egg. And the inside of her shells are generally bluer than the outside. Could your green layer be doing the same?

I think it started with stories about my grandfather's chickens. Especially the banty hen. When my father was growing up, my grandfather would leave his hat on the bureau by the window of the dining room. The banty hen would come and knock on the window every day, and my grandfather would let...

Sophie, our rescue hen, has gone broody. She's been in the nest box for almost a week, singing to her eggs. That's the only way I can describe it. It's a distinct noise she makes when she is checking over the clutch. These are going to be interesting chicks. Our roo is a Showgirl, and we're...

I don't know why chicken diapers should be an issue. It seems practical if you have chickens that come inside. (Clarisse follows me inside a lot, but I also refuse to let her become a house chicken, which seems to be her intent. That and raiding the catfood.) But given her proclivities, she's...

I have tried putting one on Clarisse, our friendly chicken who wants to be a house pet, and it's like she suddenly has grown extra wings and feet. just getting it under her keel was a two-person chore, and getting it fastened...yikes. I managed to get it on her, and she managed to peck and pull...

Pick just one? Would you settle for three? Dominiques. Our Dominique is a sweetheart, lays eggs like clockwork (6 a week) and she's gorgeous. Everything a chicken should be. But oh wow, those Polish! And I'll follow that up with Showgirls. (Unfortunately, mine have all turned out to be...

I had an absolute Hallelujah Chorus break out at the run, this afternoon. They have only learned to crow, this week, still being youngsters. I headed out to see who was crowing, and it was ALL FOUR of my four-month-old Showgirl and silkie roos. One would crow, then another, until they had worked...

Well, she's seeming to have gotten through the night, despite the muscle showing. The wound is still ugly, but not oozing or anything. She's running around like normal, but making a lot of noise, probably distress. I'll just have to wait and see. Thanks for the advice. I'll also remember the no...

Thanks. That helps a lot.

Payback is a grump, they say. I have some rescue chickens, two of whom come from feral stock, though they were hand-raised by a friend's teenaged daughter. They're great with humans, but very bad with other chickens. I separated one a long while back because she was being vicious with the...

My fiance had a couple chickens, years back, that lived to be seven and eight years old. He was recently talking to Rosalind Creasy, the edible landscaping author, and she told him that her rooster, who recently died, lived to be 15 years old!

I have three gorgeous 4-month old Showgirl roos that I can't keep, and I'm thinking of offering them to folks out of the area, since there has been no interest on the local chicken boards. My guys are gorgeous, and would make great breeding stock, but there are limits on what we can have in my...

Smart Aleck is my 3+ month old silkie roo, and has been experimenting with weird sounds for a few weeks. In the big storm, yesterday, he showed no inclination to come in out of the rain. Just sat there posing, on top of the little shelter over the coop entry. Then all of a sudden, he puffed up...

Makes me think of Bianca, our Cornish X hen, who was 11 months and 18 lbs when she died. I called her my little T. Rex, and she always provided comic relief. She was a rescue hen. For her size, she was quite athletic.

One of my hens was a rescue found roaming loose by animal control. She had two substantially clipped wings, and still apparently flew the coop. She's a great flier. She's in a totally enclosed run, now.

Unfortunately, all but one are an inherited "hen condo" with twelve boxes in a unit, that attaches to a wall. The coop is about a third the size of it! Hey, the nests were free... I've actually got the Polish in the bathroom, right now, as she was outside getting wet and muddy, and didn't...

I have a Polish who has only just started to lay. The first three eggs were in one of the nest boxes, then the Big Storm hit. The last two have been laying out in the mud, like she just plopped them there. Do you think she's disoriented? The nest boxes are outside, but the inside is sheltered...

I think the letter should be shown to the local Health Department for comment. After they have stopped laughing, they will set the record straight. The city of San Jose, here to the southeast of you, has some very good model regulations for chickens. Six per household, no roosters, fully...

I've got a crowing hen who sounds like a lawnmower starting up, every morning. However, she's a bad layer and nasty to chicks.

They say that Easter-eggers only lay one color, but I've got one that does two and a half colors! I know it's from the same chicken, my Easter-egger Cupcake, because she's the only EE I have! But so far, I've gotten blue eggs, green eggs, and green with brown speckles. It's always an...