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Newport News poultry laws could be updated September 29, 2011|By Joe Lawlor, [email protected] | 247-7874 Cluck, cluck. The way the city ordinances read now, most Newport News residents are forbidden from raising chickens. And if you like to sleep in, you probably think that's a good...

The last girl I had this issue w/eventually became an egg eater/internal layer. She's still alive and feisty, and in her own little area, but her life is pretty pointless (and definitely no benefits for us). We did everything we could to get her to lay hard shelled eggs again, but to no avail...

Seriously, this has gotten SO old, it's pointless to even have these girls. I love 'em to death, but they have worked our last nerve this summer. We have had at least one chicken (usually 2 or more @ time) broody ALL SUMMER LONG! It's ridiculous. It all started in like March when our banty...

She just started laying this spring (around March, I think) her shells were extremely thin in the beginning, and eventually we weren't seeing any from her. Or at least we thought. We started noticing egg yolk on her beak and in the nest box, so we thought she was breaking them open (not hard...

I don't know what's wrong with my girl. She was a very energetic (actually quite flighty), pretty well laying, hen just a week ago. But in the past week, she has become more and more withdrawn. Sometimes she will not come down from the roost, and when she does, she just stands in a corner and...

Well, the other day I could've sworn that there was a woodpecker on our house until I went to check things out and saw little Miss Snow White sitting in the living room window pecking away at the chipping paint in the window sill. She only paused for about 2 seconds to look back at me, before...

After keeping our new hens separate, but within view of our other ladies, for a while, we finally integrated them. The first couple of days they got along pretty well, we were having a pretty crazy nor'easter so they all chose to (wisely) stay in the house during those days. On the first sign...

She's a bantam Cochin, and recently my son started saying that " 'Chick-fil-a's leg is all boily" I asked him to show me today what he meant, and he was right! There is definitely something wrong with her foot. The other one appears to be okay. When I was out checking on her this morning...

I just got these ladies this weekend from birdlover, and she wasn't sure what they were. Originally she thought they were rocks, but as they grew into their adult bodies, she thought that maybe they could be Asils (or Aseel ?) , and when we picked them up from her yesterday, she mentioned that...

When asking questions about another chicken, I've had a few BYCers suggest that my fave little banty cochin (who was in the backgrouond) may be considered "chocolate." I've always wondered because the colors that I usually see mentioned w/Cochins never seem to match our girl. So can ya'll tell...

After my big disappointment of being given a "buff orpington pullet" who turned out to be an EE roo, we're getting worried about this little one that we were also told was a she, but is now acting similar to how our roo was acting. Territorial, making these throaty sounds all the time, and...

Just found out SHE is a HE, and HE must go soon. Free, pickup only, or will meet with in the area (15-30 miles). Please take him before he starts crowing (he's already trying!) Original thread where more pics are posted (where I found out his gender)...

We were not given much info on this chicken. But we were told that it was a pullet, and that she was 3-5 months (that was on Sep 1). Lately "she" has been on top of the hen house, often, and I've noticed "her" climbing on a couple of my banty hens lately. I don't know if she's just trying to...

Lately only 2 of our ladies have been laying regularly. One standard and one bantam. Today however, I checked for eggs, there were none, left the house for an hour and came back to 2 bantam eggs. I have no idea who else could be laying. It looks just like the little off white egg that my...

We got our flock from craigslist (free) on Aug 6, and only 2 of the 5 laying age hens have started laying (about 2-3 wks after bringing them home). The 3 that aren't laying are the polish, and the wyandotte banties. The old owner could only give us round about ages, since he didn't keep...

Two of our girls have been laying pretty regularly lately, and have this whole ritual of who goes in first, the other yelling at her to hurry up, and then coming out and singing for like 10 minutes to let us know that they are finished. Well, today, after completing their little session and...

We recently went out of town, and came home to find that our Buff Orp had laid 3 days in a row (these are our first eggs from her)! Problem is, now she won't go inside the henhouse for anything else other than laying. While we were away the person that we had check on them, didn't lock them...

A quick question for those that use the homemade feeder (5 gal bucket, drilled holes, w/ planter under). What do you do about keeping critters out of the feed at night? We usually close our feed bin up at night (dumping any unused food into it), because we don't want rodents trying to get into...

We just got our hens last week, and though some were laying before we got them, none are now. One of them happened to be so extremely loud that my hubby wanted to give her away, though. She does it every morning, and we panic about what the neighbors will think. Well, I was reading over...

We just got our 7 hens about 5 days ago (thanks rooster97! ) and the very first day, one of the bantams laid an egg. But since then, nothing. My son found the first one that day, and was so excited, and now he checks like every 20 minutes (that's if /when he actually leaves the coop, it's...