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Thanks for the ideas. I will try bringing her in for a few days to isolate and monitor her to check her droppings. I think taking a stool sample to a vet is a good idea too We have looked at her and inspected her closely and have not noticed any mites. We do have other chickens, about thirty...

Hi all, We've had this white leghorn hen for about a year. We bought her from a guy who turned out to be somewhat dishonest so we have idea how old she is. Anyway, when we first brought her home she was very perky and skitish, wouldn't let us get anywhere near her. Early on she was a very...

I wish our chickens would chase the squirels off, but they just stand there and watch them eat their food. It is very frustrating!

When we first put our hens in the new coop and they didn't know where to lay, I heard some commotion and walked in to see what was going on. One of our hens was in the corner frantically walking back and forth. I walked closer and just as I was leaning down to pick her up an egg popped out right...

Supposedly Barnevelders and Penedesencas lay dark eggs as well. Good luck finding them though, they are rare. We have a little Wellsummer pullet. She's only a couple months old but she is beautifull. We also have two Cuckoo Marans hens and love the dark colored eggs. I have been trying to get...

MMMMMMM, Dark meat, I Loooooooooooooooooooooooooove the dark meat!

We have two black austrolorp hens that are very mellow, but no experience with BA roosters. From reeding posts about different breeds and peoples different experiences I get the impression that any breed can be mellow and any breed can be skitish and aggresive. I'm not sure if its a matter of...

This is a picture from another post by MaransGuy. The eggs are really cool! Also, I got some information from another post that is a bit different from what is poster here on how to breed hens that will lay these olive eggs. Quote: According to this, you could cross a blue egger hen with...

Looks like it varries wildly depending on where you are in the country. We sell ours for $4 a dozen and I am thinking about raising it because feed costs are on the rise. In our area, organically fed and free range adds considerable value. People want and are willing to pay for a more...

Great! Thanks for the info.

yeah, I have no idea. I was just reading that in another post. Quote: I hope it works with a Marans roo and an EE hen because that is the combo we have now. Thanks for the tip, i'll ask Marans Guy.

I read in another post that you need to start with a rooster that carries 2 blue egg genes such as a pure Ameraucana rooster and cross with a hen that lays dark brown eggs. Is it true that the rooster needs to be the one carrying the blue egg gene or will it also work by crossing a hen that lays...

It depends on what kind of garden you are talking about. In our beds with established plants and larger shrubs they actually scratch through and keep the beds nicely weeded. I think they either scratch up the tiny weed seedlings or eat them or both. In our vegetable garden they wreak havok. I've...

We haven't used a bator but had one of our broody hens hatch some eggs for us. She abandoned three of the eggs because they didn't hatch at the same time as the first two so we brought them inside and put a light on them and covered them with hay hoping that would keep the humidity high enough...

And by the way, the only time you would be "forced" to raise chickens a certain way is if you decided to enter into a contract with the larger population to provide them with a safe product that they would then eat. Any time food producers are able to raise food products any way they want, by...

I think when regulations work well (and most of the time they don't) they don't limit freedom per se but set guidelines that the majority of us can agree are important for safety and market stability. I'm not talking about senseless regulations that corrupt politicians put in place to make it...

Yes, I think it was a safer product. I brought back some seaweed from the beach a couple weeks ago. I dried it in the sun and put it out near the chicken run. When the hens came out to range they went nuts for it.

Ok, couple questions about this. Does it have to be a Marans rooster with an Ameraucana hen or can it be the other way around and still get the olive egg? If you bred two Marans x Ameraucana crosses together would the egg color hold true in the offspring? This is all very facinating. Maybe I'll...

I really like having roosters around. We have a Barred Rock rooster and a Marans rooster and they are both mellow and beautiful. Its fun to watch them too, they seem to have more personality and quirky behaviours than the hens. It also makes the flock seem like more of a complete unit but that...

We always sell out of our extra eggs at $4 a dozen either at the farmers market or at our sons pre-school. It seems like people really go crazy for natural, fresh eggs.