Recent content by Crash812

I have a 6YO Rhode Island Red, a 4YO Black Australorp, and 2YO Plymouth Rock. We are getting two eggs per day fairly regularly. The Australorp's comb in not bright like the others, so I am assuming she is not laying. We are getting one large egg and one medium-small egg. The RIR seemed to always...

Our two Silkies are three months old and been with the old flock for the last month and a half, and are understandably, the bottom of the pecking order, but otherwise accepted and tolerated by our other five chickens. They have yet to figure out, they need to follow the rest of the flock into...

I have an elevated house, about 2' off the ground with nesting boxes about 6" higher than that floor. I put a cardboard box in there on the floor, just testing them. It got ignored. This has been a blended flock for about two months, now. Now that two of the new ones are laying, it is getting...

The golf balls have been in there since day one hoping the young ones would get a clue. They also scratch ALL of the bedding out the boxes. I'm going to build up the board that retains that a little higher to see if that helps too.

I built a new coupe to accommodate the four new hens and our existing two older hens. With the older ones, we had a very small coupe with two nesting boxes, and they would on lay in one, and it was a dark coupe without windows and only a vent hole, and coupe entry providing light. I made the...

Yes, we picked them up at 2 days old.

My Australorp has the biggest and brightest crown.

The browns on the right are my old RIR's. The two on the left are the new eggs. More red in color.

I have two Americanas, and Black Australorp, and a golden sexlink. One of them started laying yesterday. Got a second egg of same color and size today. Are one of these know for starting to lay so young? Should I move them of the chicken starter feed and go to layer pellets? Thoughts?

Black Australorp, Gold Sex Link, at three weeks, and two Americanas at two weeks old.

I've been noticing my chickens eating the new sprouts on the cedar in their pen. Any issues with this we should be aware of? Also, they are out in the rain more often than not, and seem to like being in the mud. Any issues I should keep an eye on with their feet?

It is possible a neighbor put out poison. It was 14" nose to tail.

Found a dead rat in the middle of their run this morning. Possible they attacked it? I've never seen my three Rhode Island Reds be aggressive.

Today our chickens will not come out of their coupe at all. Do they remember?

I was away today and received a panicked phone call from my wife. Says the chickens were just attacked and to get home. She says she heard a commotion outside with the chickens running crazy around the yard and then noticed a "hawk" perched on the hen house and many dozens of crows flying around...