I have some Barred Rocks, First time I've had them and they've started laying these cute little eggs. I'm getting about a dozen or so a day and was wondering when they will get bigger. The Girls are now about 21 weeks old.
The last two years have been crazy busy for me and for the life of me I...
Cracked open an egg for breakfast this morning and got a rude surprise.
It looks kind of like an earth worm with the red heart in it. Really confused on how this could get into the egg in the first place!
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I have a chicken who has injured herself some how. I don't know if she sprained her leg or what. She is now hopping on one foot. I have isolated her from the rest of the flock because the other birds were picking on her. Unfortunately I have to put her in with the others at night, but...
I was away at a Wedding Saturday and when I came home and checked on my girls about 5 PM all looked fine. Refreshed their water and feed and went inside to make supper. After supper (about 8PM) I went out to close them in for the night. I found one of my girls dead in the coop which is very...
My cat caught it by the chicken coop, which makes me a bit nervous to say the least! Is it a mink? We live about a half mile from the river and have a creek running through our property at the bottom of the hill.
Under the chin and neck area it is white, the rest of it is black and has...
Hi there! I am new to this thread, but not new to raising chickens. I've been raising chickens for about 7 or 8 years now. Right now I have 32 birds, most are laying. Today I got 27 eggs so far. I have black sex links, red sexlinks and a few Americaunas.
My grandchicldren love to help pick eggs...