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It is zero degrees. It will snow for another month. So NOW Gimpy (nicknamed after injury which healed) decides to go broody. She broke herself last time, so I suppose it's too much to ask she decides motherhood in the winter is overrated......

My first eggs were laid today. One this morning and one this afternoon while I was doing some chicken chores. I witnessed Betty White (ISA Brown) lay. She tried out 3 nest boxes and kicked bedding out of 2 of them. She was a bit anxious and vocal. She had been singing the egg song but then...

One of my girls laid our first egg and it is so exciting! They pushed the fake egg out of the nesting box and laid in the box. My question is do I leave the fake eggs in the boxes, leave the real egg in a box or pull everything and see what we get. Time to get the layer feed!

This is my first year with chickens. I have a flock of 10 - 3 pullet leghorns, 4 ISA Browns, 2 likely Saphire Gems, and a likely Saphire Gem cockerel. They are all about the same age at just about 16 weeks. The girls haven't started laying yet. Roo has been trying to mount the girls but they are...

Hello there! I am brand new to raising chickens and have 10 hens (I think). The gang is about 7 weeks old now and if their breeds are accurate, I should have 4 ISA Brown, 3 Plymouth Rock and 3 Leghorns. We live up in rural NH, so having a homegrown food source is handy when the nearest grocery...

New to chickens. I think one of my barred rock chicks may be a roo. If she is a he, that is fine - I wanted a rooster for my flock anyway. Do you think the first bird could be a boy? All of my chicks are around 7 weeks old.

I am new to raising chickens and was told this was a barred rock chick (now 7 weeks old) but she (supposed to be sexed) has black feet and beak. Could she be a mix with another breed?