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No kiddin'! For several weeks now I've had porcelain eggs in the nests, hopefully to give 'em the idea of what they're for as well as discourage 'em from thinking they're yummy... "Dang! That thing is TOUGH!" I'm wondering if the nest boxes are big enough... about 13" X 14 1/2", with LOTS...

Okay ~ three Orpington hens (two black and one silver), and two "mystery" hens I hatched when the feral mom was killed... believe she was a Brown Leghorn. Anyway ~ "mystery" girls are going on seven months old; Orpingtons about a month older. Built 'em a decent 4' X 8' coop, with a...

Miss Oli, where 'bouts in California might you be...? :) I'm almost smack-dab in the middle of the state, and indeed, most communities are pretty cool about hens but not roosters. Ha! Couple of times a neighbor's rooster has flown over the fence at dawn and serenaded my son by sounding...

Thanks, all! Unfortunately, when I found Mom #1 on that afternoon, well... she had gone on to that big hen house in the sky. I wasn't exactly "helping her out," I became a Hen Surrogate. Or Foster Hen. And it has been my observation that the old wive's tale about the babies imprinting on the...

So about a month ago I'm out waging war on weeds with my new Husky 4-stroke weed-buzzer-downer. Made darned good progress, too... was working my way into the last corner of the fenced yard when I suddenly stopped, feeling something wasn't quite right. I turned the machine off, and in the...