If it makes you feel better mine have also slowed down considerably (7 eggs a day to 1 sometimes 0). It has been extremely hot here over the last month with very high humidity. I know personally I would not want to give birth on a 100 degree day, so I am giving them a break.
It's open on the top just chicken wired the entire bottom to stop my dogs from pulling them through the fence, my fencing is an old dog pen. She was alive when my husband went to work, do weasels kill in broad daylight?
12 chickens, probably a twenty five foot by 10 foot run. I feed the smaller ones seperately. Do you think my husband doesn't fee them the same as I do and that's causing them to fight?
I have a small flock of mixed types of chickens. One of my original chickens was killed sometime this morning, she was smaller than the rest, but I have other small ones who are okay. This was my friendliest chicken and part of my original flock and has been with these other birds for 6 months...
I have one white silkie, not sure if it's a roo or a hen, don't care. It was given to me. Does anyone know where I can get some more? I can't do eggs, DH does not want them in the house, so I am looking for some bigger sized silks.
Not bigger per se, but older so they can be on their own in...
I have a small Americana (I think), his name is Ben. I also have a Weiner dog who cannot resist the chickens. I don't expect Ben to last, he likes to fly to the top of the coop, and Tuff is just waiting for the day he hits the ground outside his coop. Maybe I can get his wings trimmed today...
I have a little white and black chicken we call Jazzy Chicken, not sure what breed she is, she was given to me and she is my absolute fav. She likes to be petted and held. My four year old daughter loves her and so do I. She comes to her name and makes a sound like a love bird when you hold...
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when you go outside several times a day to see how many eggs you got.
or when you go outside and stand for several hours to see if you can catch one laying an egg, that you haven,t seen lay before.
How bout when every egg is like receiving a Christmas present everyday.
When you...
Miss Kitty (the Madame of my coop) Gold Laced Wyandotte
Miss Kat - the other gold laced wyan
Lila - a white silkie chicken
Big Momma -cochin, I think (new to chicken keepin and they were given to me)
Ben - rooter, americana, my daughter named him
Henny Penny - Brown Leghorn
Lucy Goosey - a...
I have caught myself saying it both ways. I think it's Leg Horn, but I say Legern when I am talking about them to my husband. Then again I grew up in the city and moved to the country, I have also caught my self saying waaash instead of wash.