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I have had my small flock here in Abilene for just short of one year. I did my research before I built the brooder, bought my chicks, etc., etc., and swear I saw a city ordinance on the city's web site saying no roosters. Okay. No problem. Well, a couple days ago there was an article in the...

Of my six BRs I have one that will sit on all the eggs she can get everyday. Interestingly the other five BRs, plus my three reds don't sit on the eggs at all. I just shoo her away and collect them! She doesn't mind a bit. However, I suppose if I let her "brood" on them more than a day or...

Hmmm? Google?

I think I've posted this photo here before. A photo of my garage rig a few months ago. Note the vanilla air fresheners.

Or use Photobucket to post pics. No need to worry about how many posts you have to get on this forum.

Quote: That's how mine started out -- a brooder in the garage for the convenience of the chicks, and me -- and as I've tried to get everything together for the outside coop things keep getting in the way. Here it is November, and I'm still not done with the coop. Lot's of motivation, but not...

When I first discovered one of my runts getting pecked on I went down to the feed store to find an ointment. I don't recall the price or even the name of the stuff they showed me, but suffice it to say it was INSANE! Even the salesman told me it may or may not work. Almost out of desperation...

Do they use the same nesting boxes to lay in, just sleep in, or both? I figure if the boxes are clean, why worry, but I haven't had this issue - yet.

I'm sort of embarrassed to say I've had mine in the garage for some time. Of course they are in my oversized "brooder" which has helped tremendously, but due to, uh, let's just say circumstances that's the way it is. Yes, I have a coop in progress outside in the backyard. In fact a long-time...

I just got back home from a visit to my folks, and brought them some of my egg bounty. One morning Dad made breakfast with some of the eggs, and I saw him put the shells in a bag he has off to the side of his sink. "Huh?", I thought! Anyway, later I asked my mom what the egg shells were for...

Thank you everybody. You know, she was a pretty good egg layer too. The only white eggs I got were from her, although not everyday. Usually she layed every other day, but they all were large. That surprised me considering how tiny she was, but this is my first experience raising chickens...

Honestly, it depends on when I go to TSC, and what they have in stock. Sometimes they are out of Purina, and sometimes they are out of Dumor. The price difference is as you wrote, and I can live with that. The past two trips to my local TSC I got the Dumor, but I've probably got just as many...

Well, like the subject line says, it was tough, but probably for the best. My last Leghorn -- the "runt" of the flock -- has been picked on since they were all juveniles. I don't know how many times I've had to segregate her after they tore up her comb, or her rear end. Today was the worse...

How about when they check out their egg immediately after they lay it? I was changing the water the other day, and saw one of my ladies just laying in her nest, but really didn't pay much attention. A minute or two later she stood up, and I just happened to catch her with her head under there...

11/15 - First 11-egg day!