Recent content by farmgirl06

I go out by 10:00am and there are 4 eggs in the nesting box, then again by 4pm and there are 3 more... still have 2 girls that have not started to lay.. (the whole flock is 5 months old)..

Cortner1195, do you remember the name of that book?

Thank you again Bullit .. I agree about Bear. She laid her first egg today and it was a pinkish brown. No Ameraucana for me! She is a beautiful black bird with irredescent green feathers and black legs. I self-diagnosed her breed by pics on the Internet... lucky I'm not a brain surgeon, huh...

Thank you Trefoil.. I will do exactly that.

Thank you APPPS your post was helpful. In case you were wondering, as a boy he was helping his grandma make breakfast with her chicken's eggs and when he cracked one open it held a partially formed chick (ewwwww!! Obviously overlooked at collection time for quite awhile!). I'm sure that...

Yes Bullitt, I am pretty sure he is a RSL... why? When I bought them from the feed store I bought 7 RSL and 7 'Rainbow Layers'. I'm almost positive I ended up with 1 EE, 1 Ameraucana, and 12 RSLs. My daughter and son-in-law begged off 4 of the RSLs though, so now I only have the 7 RSL hens &...

Hello All... I need help with a dilemma I am having. My 10 beautiful chickens are just over 5 months old and I've raised them since 5 of them were 1 week old and 5 were 2 weeks old. Needless to say, I have fallen in love with ALL of them! The problem I have is that my husband refuses to eat any...

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oops i'm too slow! cold

Yonk (a real word in the Urban Dictionary! Lol...)

This is Chicken. Today is the first day she ever did this!! (I loved it.. It didn't hurt a bit!)

We have 9 hens and one rooster. Angelo is our RSL Rooster. His name used to be Angel because when he was a chick he was pure white and we thought he was a girl (how ignorant we were back then... Lol!). Moppet is our EE hen. We had just finished watching Mrs. Doubtfire the day before we got...

That article in Forbes was eggs-cellent! Is that salmonella vaccine available to the average 'hobby farmer' in Missouri with only 9 hens and 1 rooster? We vaccinate our dogs, cats, and cows.. I guess a shot for the chickens isn't out of the question!

I don't think it really applies to me at this time with only 9 hens... but in the future who knows??