Thank you all for the links and information. My 6 hens have a purpose, to lay eggs for food and when it's time, that they will serve as a meal after their time of egg laying. Hubby made me promise not to name them and reminds me daily they aren't pets like our dogs, tho he sees me spoiling them...
I keep trying to add the picture but it won't let me This dime size piece was separate from the rest of the eggs inside the shell. Yolk was pretty and yellow and full, separate from the white as it should be but when I cracked it, everything fell into the pan as normal and behind it fell out...
As soon as she laid it I brought it inside to my basket. 2 days later I cracked it open to cook. And I do not have a rooster. It just shocked me. I poked at it to feel it's texture and it shocked me how much it felt like actual raw chicken meat feels. I wish I could get my phone to upload the...
Okay chicken experts, I have a one year old white leghorn. She's always made wonderful eggs, including made her first double Yolker the first 4 months of her laying. But tonight as I cracked open one of her eggs to make scrambled eggs, this sort of rubbery (dare i say) raw chicken like piece of...
My Sweet Lucyl has been restless all morning. I watched her closely and after 3 hours, I found her very first egg! It's a first for us both. I'm so happy! [/IMG]
As it starts sleeting out, I hear my chickens out back making a racket, looking around them watching tiny beads fall and they begin 'screaming' at it lol! Even THEY are sick of this weather! come on spring!
So I have 2 white leghorns, and 2 Barred Rocks both about 21 weeks. Today one of my white leghorns finally squat for me. Reached down to pet her, thinking she'd just run away as she usually does, but she froze in place and DOWN she went, wings apart and all. so I scratched her back and off she...