Cruella is a 4mo Plymouth/Barred Rock girl who would be much happier living a free range life. She is located 25mi NW of Boston, MA and she is free if you have the right situation for her.
I cannot free range my few girls because my property backs up to a National Wildlife Preserve and my yard...
Surprise! Claire, Black Astralorp egg today! I started giving them cooked oatmeal, thawed frozen maine blueberries and a dollop of greek yogurt a few days ago as an afternoon treat. Have no idea if that is what turned the faucet back on but I'll go with it. Would you call this a "tan" or...
She is the most friendly and tame of the 3 chickens I currently have. I plan on getting another this spring. Have learned it is best to space the ages to keep the eggs a comin'
Hi Aart, I will take a look at the "nether" tomorrow. She is the sweetest and tamest of my 3 hens. No I don't free range, too many hawks and coy-wolves in the conservation land we back up to. She has been a spectacular layer for her first 2 years and was the first to lay after they'd all...
My wonderful layer a coming 3yo Black Astralorp has stopped laying all of a sudden. She is not moulting. She started laying mid-February, nice big eggs at about 3-4 eggs/week then in the past 2.5 weeks she hasn't lay an egg at all. Her hen mates, an Ameraucan of the same age is laying her...
I have a Red Sex Link I bought as a 6mo pullet and she was a great egg producer until she entered her first molt at just before 2 years of age. After that or during the tail end of that (wasn't a molt like my other hens though!) which coincided with longer days here in MA, March of this year...