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I had just washed 3 doz eggs with a washcloth wiped over the eggs with a very mild dish soap. Now that I did that, a guy just called for at least 2 doz eggs to hatch out. Will these eggs still be ok? They are not refridgerated, just sitting on the counter and drying off. Thanks everyone! BTW, I...

My son has dug up some of those huge fat white grubs from the ground. We are wondering if they are ok for our girlies to tear up. My biggest concern is the pinchers on these things, would they pinch a hen`s crop pouch in her? I`ve never seen a grub move around muchZ let alone pinch us, I`m just...

I give my girlies the basic seed & suet blocks as a treat every now and then. Found a heck of a deal today! Usually I pay about $2.50 each, well Ace Hardware has 8 packs on sale right now for only $5.00!!! So I bought 2 cases for my piggy girls. ....just wanted to share in case any of you get...

Not sure who is doing it, but it looks like one of my girlies is a pain! Every batch of eggs we collect, 1 or 2 have a hole in it! Looks like someone pecked it, or maybe a toenail. And it`s usually my green eggs too! AAaarrrgggg!!!!! Any of you have girlies with a twisted sense of humor like that?

Well, the past 2 weeks, I have been trying to figure out what was "bad" with 2 out of the 6 eggs I recently gave him. What a hoot! I asked him this evening, and he told me. Apparently, the supposed bag eggs simply had a dark yolk compared to the others! And here I am, wondering if he got a blood...

I was curious as to how others clean out the poops from your runs and coops. Mine is all open bottomed. I biult my coop from a shed with the floor out and backed it to a large dog pen with a fenced top for security so I can move them around to clean. Well, I don`t clean. I put an ad on CL for...

Here`s a funny question... should I be concerned about pine pine shavings from my sisters hampster? It.s full of hidden food and couldn`t see just throwing that out. Would it be ok for my girlies to scratch around in and eat the leftover hampster food from the shavings?

This morning, I went to my coop to give the daily laftovers to my flock. It was tacos preferred over fried chicken, biscuits over donuts and other odd stuff. Then the unspeakable happened! My favorite roo, Roody Roo is my 3 yr old sussex, choked on a biscuit piece! He was gasping and started to...

Ok, first time seeing this. Below the spot where all my girlies roost, my son and I found a soft, jelly egg this evening. It was fully formed with a yolk, but had no shell, just the membrane inside of the shell holding it together. Almost all my girls are grown up spring chicks, gearing up and...

Spike is definetly a roo, has fathered a chick too. He`s a black tailed red frizzled bantam mutt roo. Well this morning I am out giving my girls their daily treats and found Spike in a nesting bin making a nest and settling in! Is this normal for roos to nest or do egg or chick time? He`s my...

Yeah it was cold, even here in central Florida. But I had a great outlook. Only worked 7am to 3pm so I enjoyed the afternoon. Wemt and bought more chicken feed and the people said I am one of the few out here still getting alot of eggs! I get 6 to 9 a day from my spring girlies! Woohoo! Well the...

Well, this was kinda funny to me yesterday... My girls have been used to me spending my mornings wigth them as I give them all the previous days leftovers as treats when I feed them. However yesterday, I had to go to work by sunrise so I only fed them, no treats. Every day we have been getting...

Running with Dinahmo`s idea, in the "roadkill" thread that is rather entertaining, got me thinking. What IS the nastiest thing you have given to your chickens? I am guilty of lizards and roaches I have caught, and 1 mouse I took from my dog a while ago.

Ok, I give my girlies sometimes chopped walnuts or sliced almonds left over from cooking as treats. They love them! So I was wondering if it really was ok since they eat everything else too. And my other puzzle is about acorns. Where I moved their pen too, didn`t realize that the old oak would...