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We've been managing through these really cold temps just fine, no heat other than their water, and their body heat! Well... until today. Bronwen (an EE) came out of the hen house with both eyes closed, then opened one of them. She kept the other eye closed. I couldn't see any problem, infection...

I went out to water and visit my girls and found one (a BO named Annie Oakley) cold, flat, dead, next to the run's wall... a little under the bottom of the ramp to the roost. She wasn't pecked, looked great, other than being dead of course. I'm thinking she broke her neck or something... she is...

Our poor Bronwen (EE) is broody and I think she may have been lured into it by Mae (a BO). We don't have any roosters and I'm not allowed to get/make/raise any chickies so is there a nice way to help them? Should I just leave them alone and be pecked every time I get eggs? Bronwen has stopped...

Lately Geena has been spending more time in the egg boxes and even in the little hallway of the galley of six egg boxes... She has been laying, but will either wait until others have laid a few and then lay hers, then snuggle down on them until I steal them. She has been whirring at me, trilling...

I bundled up today to go feed our fowl. It is a morning treat for them to get warm oatmeal - this morning I fixed it with green beans and sweet red pepper powder. Yum. I also brought their normal feed and some warm water. I noticed they weren't as excited as normal. Xena started flipping out...

Okay, so I just visited the Ameraucana website to go through the standards, just out of boredom. I'm fine with my EE mutts - they are wonderful little girlies! Anyway... I was surprised that two of them, my white and (I think) my silver look to qualify as Ameraucanas... but the other two EEs...

So, with all the hanging cabbages pictured and mentioned here, Hubby and I decided to put one up. The girls love it! So funny to watch them rip off little bits. What other affordable entertainment/treats do you give them? We have been giving them warm oatmeal with scraps in the AM and usually...

Today we got a newsletter from my aunt (uncle's wife) and it had lots of news, old news in it that really should have been something that I should have been called or even emailed about... And that made me really sad. My great aunt's husband died, our family as a whole (as in my fathers family)...

Martha Stewart and Georgia O'Keefe are sister EEs. Martha started laying at 30 1/2 weeks and Georgia 33 1/2 weeks. Martha started laying aqua eggs (sometimes speckled) and then Georgia started laying the same shade (not speckled), but slightly smaller (perhaps because she developed a little...

Today we were out doing some more upgrades to our run/coop and found raccoon hair on the roof. Looked like one of the special roofing screws had snagged some. Made Hubby and I happy that we *did* predator-proof our run well even though we didn't think we needed to go as far as we did. We...

We got our 3 BOs and 1 RIR the first Saturday in September and then the next day we got our two EE pullets. The BOs and RIR had been laying for a while, about a year & 1/2 old... The RIR laid an egg right as we were picking them up. After laying well for about 3 or so weeks (like 2 dozen a...

I'd like to be 100% sure that our new egg is from our RIR - do they produce darker eggs than BOs? And sometimes speckled with darker pigment? Thanks!!!

Hubby and I are thinking of expanding our flock come spring... And we were thinking of a few ways of doing that. He is against borrowing a rooster and having our own girls have their own babies and also incubating. So that leaves two options that I see: getting one of our hens to brood fertile...

Okay, a little while ago our first EE, Martha Stewart, laid her first egg. It was aqua, speckled (all following eggs were not) and small, seemingly a trend of the first one or two eggs laid. Her sister, Georgia O'Keefe, has been squatting, etc... lately. We got a weird medium brown with darker...

We have 2 1/3 acres in the city... but would like our hens to enjoy foraging. Hubby and I are trying to design an easily movable yard (like on a sled?) that can dock to our coop/run. It would need to be lightweight and keep daytime predators away. We aren't planning on keeping them in there...