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My white leghorn, Camilla, Hasn't layed an egg is slightly over a week. There really haven't been any changes in her enviroment, other than the weather, which went from being 75-85 in the day to being 60-75. She has always been my most productive layer, usually laying an egg every day. Her...

They wouldn't be around small children, just 7-ish and older. No this isn't a wanted to buy ad, just trying to select a breed that would be good for my flock. And I've never looked too much in to orpingtons, any particular reason they are so great??

I am Looking for a well tempered rooster, any suggestions?? My flock consists of 5 hens that are roughly 6 months old and 1 fully grown hen. I need a Roo that will be good with kids and people.

Today when I went to let my girls out of their coop, I looked in and there was an egg. After I cleaned out their waterer, checked their food, ect. When I went in for the egg, it was gone! but one chicken was in the coop acting strange. I looked over and she had moved it and was eating the egg...

These three are the only one's I'm not sure about. And I dont have pics, but I also have 1Dominique 1 RIR and 1 white leghorn (visible in one pic!).

here is one next to one of my brown eggs and some of them have brownish spots or a dip-dyed like pattern

Don't the EE's have a fairly distinctive look? That was my first thought. But when I looked at pictures of them, none of my chickens seem to look quite like them.

I have 6 hens, and thought I had a pretty good idea of what they were... until they started laying unexpected egg colors! Does anyone know what kind of chicken would lay a pink-ish lavender egg?? Is it possible for a chicken to lay different colored eggs??

I have 2 black tailed buff marans, Topanga luanne and suzan Ellenore. 1 rhode island red, Trixie amanda 1white leghorn, Camilla Jane 1 dominique, Agnes Armenda 1 black copper Maran, Jedra lee (named by my baby sister) 1 leghorn rooster, Stuart Phillip My flock all come to their names. We had...

Quote: what is a black tailed buff marans?sounds interesting. those chicks look like your hatchery type rhode island reds. These are my black tailed buff Marans. Topanga (left) and Suzan (right) and this is a better picture of Suzan

I have 6 hens. 1 rhode island red, 2 black tailed buff marans, 1 dominique, 1 leghorn and 1 black copper maran. They are all fairly young and very friendly!

They look like rhode island reds or black tailed buff marans to me. I have one red and two marans and I thought my marans were reds until recently. It's so hard to tell until they are a little bit older!

I'm looking for a breed of rooster that would be good to show and will adapt well to the rest of my flock. I'm thinking Brahma or Delaware? any suggestions??

She was all black when she was a chick. As her feathers came in, her head gradually turned a reddish-gold color.

Can anyone tell me what kind of chicken she is?? my hens are starting to lay eggs and I having a hard time figuring out which ones are laying.

I have a flock of 6 hens and 1 rooseter.My rooster recently suffered an injury to his leg, and We decided that we want to put my rooster out of his pain and butcher him, but I don't want to leave my hens with no rooster. Would incorporating a new rooster raise problems?

She usually pecks at me whenever I get close to her. she pecks and grabs for my fingers, she frequently makes a hissing noise when she does.

I'm new to raising chickens and I have 12 2 month old chickens. when my family and I bought our coop, the family we bought it from had a chicken they didn't want anymore. So we took her. She has been fine with our chicks, and the rest of my family, but she pecks at me every time I'm around her...