Recent content by Chicadoo

thank you for your response. Do most people have roosters running with their hens?

I had 12 chickens and one of these girls started laying an egg that the shell was so soft it breaks when you pick it up. All the other eggs are just fine. The feed store told me they needed oyster shells. I found it interesting that only one chicken (1 egg) would have a problem. Another...

Howdy All We just got back from a couple days away from home. That means that we have 18 eggs that have been in the nest buckets. So, my question is whether or not these eggs are still ok to eat? The longest that any one egg would have been there would have been about 30 hours. The outside temp...

Hello All New to this forum so this is my first post. We have 10 Golden Sexlink hens running with no rooster. They have free open run to +/- 2500 Sq. Ft. of open yard area and a temporary 5'x10' roosting and laying coop. We get very nice large brown eggs but recently noticed that some of the...