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Hens usually lay eggs any time of day usually between 5:00am and even with some of our chickens as late as 7:00pm during the warm summer months. It depends on if the egg is cracked or not if it is considered bad. If it is cracked, usually only a day or two. If it is just a normal egg, than it...

Count me in, we love summer, chicken eggs are ok, we love to garden, pink, purple and green are favorite colors, blue well liked too. We love to garden....my kids hate vegetables but love flowers, 2 girls with nut allergies so please no homemade goodies with nuts....makes the 2 little one have...

I have 3 separate pens, 2 giving me eggs, one more or less making me think of the stew pot....all same types of conditions, except a bit nicer in the cage not giving me eggs.

My mom was going to wait until I was 10...but when I was 7 or 8 she got caught working some double shifts at the hospital...my dad was on duty...well he didn't stop me...I made my own Easter dress with zipper and no help...no way was I not have an Easter dress....much to everyone's amazment it...

my 8 yo daughter is absolutely fascinated, my cousin was very good...but I'm too clumsy,

I too am thinking, but would anyone consider making the due date a week or 2 later just incase more people sign up, I would be nervous getting 20 or more done in just 5-6 weeks although 12-15 would be fairly easy. mary

Do you have WA yet...it would be a mix, some pure, some mix all chickens, ameracana and orpingtons mostly, some barred rock too. Probably 6-10 eggs.

sold....mary

Isn't it time for Spring....my furnace too decided to break....yet again, sound likely I'll be getting a new one....cost over 2,000 to fix....and I spent 1,000 last year...and too much the year before.....and there is still more to break!

How do I get in for the quilt blocks. And I agree 1/2 creamer is the best way to drink coffee.....Cars have 2 cup holders 1 for coffee, one for Diet Coke....(I get up at 5AM and am NOT a morning person!) mary

My white leghorn 7 months had bad frostbite, foot and leg swollen for about 4 weeks, then the last week rapid improvement....she's out running well and giving us eggs....that toe is a goner, but the leg I think will recover.

I had a rooster do this several months ago....I agree with spraining his crower.....when her first got his voice he told the world....now a polite crower....unless he thinks I might forget to feed him!

My dental hygenist keeps chickens. She took her kids old wagon and put a dog kennel hard sided in it she then wheels it into the chicken runs and back in to garage for increasing lengths of time...the birds can get somewhat acquanted through the wire....I did this but just carried a smaller...

We had a very sudden change, lost 2 very young birds....however both were signifcantly smaller than their hatchmates, one with a crossed beak, the other just a sweet runt....at 6 months smaller than most bantums...never ill....just tiny. ( Even dewormed her no change) Did catch one that had...

I had to leave for a few days, my uncle had a heart attack, I had a chicken who tends to lay her eggs in the run....by the coop literally freeze in that position. I brought her in, could not stand for 3 or 4 days...but 4 weeks later she is back with her friends, well leg fully recovered no lost...