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For the past ten years or so my wife has prided herself with the huge eggs that our hens were laying. Mostly RIR's or leghorn battery birds. When asked she would proudly explain about the great food they found while free ranging. Our present 5 hens started to moult so I picked up four new birds...

As the ink runs out, the colour fades maybe:celebrate

All this happened back about 1959-1960. Seems to me they were very young as we did about half of the males and had to keep records comparing the results.

Back when I took grade nine agriculture we had an incubator in class and around May we hatched a couple of dozen eggs, keeping records of everything. The next project was sexing the chicks and castrating the roosters. This all happened back in the early 60's and was my last chicken encounter...

A few months ago we were given a silkie rooster to go along with our other girls, mostly RIR's and sex links. We are in central Ontario and have had a few frozen combs on leghorns over the years but nothing serious. (they have radiant heat on the roost for those minus 30 degree nights) Just...

Thats what I would like to know as well. Had hens for over ten years now, mostly RIR's and leghorns. At least one of the two leghorns I have now are giving cloudy eggs and yet we often fry brown eggs that are still warm from the nest.....

We have two leghorns and seven more "red" birds as well. They all get the same feed and care, penned up until the tomatoes are gone then free range till the snow gets too deep. The birds are all donations (three groups) and only three were debeaked so I assume the rest are farm bred. Each day...

Why don't you just let them out if they want to go. They will get wet and eventually return ti the nice dry coop. We have RIR's and leghorns. The RIR's will stand in the rain for hours...The leghorns are smarter...

How is the other bird making out? I would just ignore the wild one and hope she decides that family life is better. Once she joins the flock she should stay.

Shortly after we got into the chicken game with a few RIRs and leghorns a local prankster brought us a rooster because every henhouse "needs one". We were pretty ignorant about chooks but were impressed with the 2" Spurs on this old fella. Never gave a thought about what they could do, and when...

How cold does it get down there? One winter we had a dog kennel in our basement with one rooster in it to keep him untill we could find someone who would give/sell us another hen. Once the warm weather arrived along came more birds.

Our rooster starts to crow about 430. This seems to wake the owls who then start to hoot as well. Been doing this for about 8 years now and he was an old bird when he was given to us by a "town" chicken owner whose neighbours complained...

Had hens for ten years or so. They free range but get locked up to protect the garden, running over hill and dale when loose. The other day we found some eggs that had been hidden away. These were between 2-6 days old and we had not had frost during this period. When we went to use these eggs i...

So we have had chicks for a number of years now. The coop is on the south side of our house and the birds free range except when we have to protect the garden. We have a second house on the north side with tenants who just built a coop and now also have chickens (and ducks). The weather is...

If you live in Kalifernia and eat enough eggshells with black spots.........

Got to agree with MrsBB. Our Golden is fine with our birds, as long as they stay in their place. If one comes up on the deck, or into the basement then it is brought to our attention. Similarly if a strange bird joins the flock. He wanders thru our neighbours flock of ducks and ignores them, but...

I was given a mess of smelts the other day and when I cleaned them I left the cleanings (heads, innards, etc) on a tray in the garage, which is connected to our henhouse. This morning I opened the connecting door while I went to get a pail of water and noticed a riot going on behind me.....seems...

I always figure that if it makes its own hole, it's a raccoon (or a red squirrel:))

We sometimes notice runny whites as well. Thought it was from the cold coop....Sometimes the eggs freeze and visibly crack. These go in "our" pile instead of the sell pile....

Don't know where you are, but it's really cold up here. You would not want to touch your tonque to the rain spout . Is there any chance that there might be something metallic in the nest or on the roost that they might be sitting on, and freezing to?:rolleyes: