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Hi Aart, Not sure if you saw both photos.. The top photo of the green eggs (three eggs in photo) was taken last year. The bottom photo of single tan egg was taken this morning. It’s the tan egg that’s throwing me off.. but I will try the trick and see if it works.

Thanks! Guess I am having eggs for lunch!! Will let you know how it goes.

She is a mix of a blue and brown layer. Last year she gave us sea green eggs and this year she is giving us tan eggs. Pic of three eggs, the top two are her sea green eggs. There is no way that my brown layer is laying two eggs a day every day??

Hi, Last year our flock of five hens laid these eggs: a barnvielder (brown), a Swedish flower (cream), a cream legbar (light blue), and two crosses between a barnvelder and a leg bar (both were sea green eggs). Last year daily I only had one brown collected and three blue/blue green eggs...

Hi, With all the rain this year, apparently every ran must have found its way to our yard!!! We keep the food locked up in the house and the self feeding tube is the only thing out. Rats have nawed a hole any the base of the coop and floor. I want to find a way to plug this up with out a...

Hello all, To close the loophole... we checked against all her other brood mates and no one less had the lump on the left belly. We knew we were dealing with either an abnormal reproductive growth or internal egg laying. Neither of which we can fix and so we put her down.

She is eating and can poop by herself. She has not had greens in the last two days so her poop is probably caused then by an infection. I gave her ACV this morning. I have some chicken antibiotic meds left that I can give her tonight to see if she is fighting gut internal infection. I can also...

Hello, Warning!!! Graphic photo... She seems in better spirits but.... I gave her a bath and the egg is not within the first one inch. When I did the check this morning, I could still feel the ball on her left side belly under the wing. I tried the finger thing again and she exploded on...

Thanks. I felt something round on her left “belly” side, wasn’t sure if that was an egg or an organ. I will try tonight when I get home.

hi, We have a 7month old Olive egger who is the runt and not the smartest of the flock (thus of course a favorite!) who is in a penguin stance with clear water poos. She’s been separated, eyes and skin clear, keel good, crop... empty in the morning and squishy. No stains or issues in the vent...

They have not changed. Still 25’ set back and 100’ from neighbors.. with many of the council members now forced out due to recent term limits imposed upon them, many were not in the mood to entertain changing chicken ordinances due to them running for another office. I am waiting for the next...

Sorry, not enough coffee today and brain won’t process... whose assessment were you agreeing with? Mine (on the different sexes) or McKennas (it’s too early to tell)? I am using this website as a guide for sexing... http://www.hansenwoodlandfarm.com/raising-chickens-checklist.html Thoughts?

hi Folks, I can’t have Roos so need help finding the Roos of the group so I can give them a new home. These are crosses to make olive eggers... cream legbar mixed with a bielfelder. I have attached the pics and labeled them A through D. They were all hatched the same week.... March 26...

Hi, Treating hens for round worms. Is there something I can put in the run area to treat the ground to prevent reinfection?

Treating for roundworms that were a positive ID. Decided will give in the waterer instead. Will use for egg laying hens. It’s fine for them, the bottle says not to because there have been no studies done to validate it for an official egg withdrawal date and the company is not worth investing...