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We have a Blue Copper Maran rooster that is wonderful with his 15 hens. He always warns them of danger and calls them to come when he sees a treat. We've had him from hatch and decided to keep him because he was so beautiful. My husband use to crow at him when he was young, but we learned...

If there's no risk of predators, I probably wouldn't go to the expense, but after going without for eight years, we had a mink come into our coop early one morning before light and killed five of our hens. I was able to save one after nursing her for a couple of weeks, but the experience was...

We've had chickens for over 10 years now and purchased an automatic door about a year ago. We love, love, love it! It's the ADOR1 Automatic Chicken Coop door opener. It was about $199 and worth every penny. It has a solar sensor that makes it open in the morning and close at night and is...

Thank you for your reply and the link. It was very helpful and informative. We corrected the problem with the incubator rack as soon as we noticed it, but that was on day 13, so I expect we will have some hatching problems. The eggs are turning properly now and the incubator turns them every...

We just realized that the tray in our incubator was upside down, so the automatic turner has not been turning the eggs properly, if at all. We don't know for sure. They have been incubating for 13 days. With 8 days left before hatching, are there likely to be problems? If so what might we do...

I understand the idea of not washing off the bloom, but we got tired of fighting the problem of keeping the chickens out of the laying boxes, so I wash every egg, whether it looks clean or not. They stay pretty clean if we replace the wood shavings every day, but we don't always get around to...

We have nine chickens. Almost every day we lose 1 or 2 eggs because one or more hens are eating them! How can we find out which ones are eating the eggs? We haven't been able to catch them in the act. We've tried filling eggshells with hot sauce, mustard, pepper; we've tried putting golf...

Thank you. The bottles sound like an easier way to keep them out of the nests than what we had tried. About half of our chickens are 2 years old and the others are 1 year. They all lay around one egg a day, give or take a few.

We have nine layers and one or more of them are enjoying the eggs! We've tried blowing the egg out and filling it with mustard, tabasco, and cayenne pepper a couple of times. I watched them go nuts over it. The hotness seemed to only make them go at it faster. It's hard to figure out which...

She has oyster shell and crushed egg shells mixed in with her lay mash. We'll try the Tums. Thanks for the suggestion.

Yes, the egg was definitely broken. It wasn't a whole shell. It was very soft and folded in half. It was half in and half out of the vent and was very easy to pull out.

One of our two-year old Wyandott hens had a partial, very soft and flimsy egg shell partially stuck in her vent. We noticed it one afternoon and that evening we were able to catch her and pull it out. It was very apparent that she had been trying to push it out for I don't know how long and...

Our hens have always had the higher protein content lay mash. If they need calcium, is that what the oyster shells are for? Thank you!

Should we or should we not give our laying hens food grade DE - diatamateous earth (not sure of the spelling)? What are the advantages and disadvantages?

When do we start giving chicks (ours are 2-4 weeks old) grit and scratch?

We have 5 hens about 1 year old. We have been saving the eggshells and crushing them, then feeding them to our chickens for the calcium. Do we still need to give them crushed oyster shells and if so, why? Also, If we give them grit, do they still need oyster shells or are the two equal in...

We have five laying hens that are about a year old. 2 Wyandotts, 2 Americanas, and 1 Welsummer. They have a small coop, but free-range in our fenced pasture. We lost our other Welsummer a few months ago and can't seem to find another mature hen to replace her. Would it be wise to buy a baby...

We only have 5 hens, but getting 5 eggs a day can add up pretty quickly. We give some away to friends and family, but I'm wondering if eggs can be frozen to be used for cooking and/or baking at a later time?

The organic fertilizer sounds like a good idea too. I'm going to check that out. I didn't know there was such a thing. Thanks!