I'm finally getting around to making a page on here, to show you some of our chickens. We just started raising chickens this past Spring.
This is Oprah, a Silver Laced Wyandotte. She is 4 months old.
The two white silkies below are Beatrice & Eugenie. The Royal Wedding had just occurred...
Farmer friends of ours have a 10 year old daughter in charge of the chickens, and she does very well with her egg business. They just started the timer on their light for 5:30 a.m.; they swear by it.
We started raising chicks when my boyfriend purchased a dozen chicks in April of this year from Tractor Supply. He wasn't sure what they all were, and neither am I. All our eggs are brown, but I haven't figured out who is laying them yet. We get 7 a day from these 10 that we still have from the...
I have been interested to know this also. I have too many though to tell who is laying what. I thought they would all lay at the same time (age) but I get 7 eggs a day from 13 chickens. Well 10 to be exact since 3 are younger than the rest and not old enough.
I have seen/heard various thoughts on this. I'm anxious to see how our chickens (and eggs) fare. We built our coop with vents in the eaves - cold will definitely come in, but we had heard that was healthier for the chickens to have vents than to be cooped up with none.
I didn't see this until now, but I concur, nothing better than a fresh egg! It was so exciting when we got our first egg this summer! Currently we get about 7 a day from our 13 hens.
This is probably like the blind leading the blind, since I am so new, but I noticed that happen several times, and eventually it stopped happening. You should have seen some of them! Very bizarre, some with a very uneven shell (like rings around it). Glad that stopped! I also don't know why...
Yes, my boyfriend ran an extension cord out to our coop and installed a light on a timer, to turn on at 5:30 a.m. None had started molting or gone broody so I think we're good?
My silkies never get picked on, they're beautiful, and fun to watch. Very soft. I had often read they were super friendly, but I have found mine to not be very social, whereas others will come up to me and are easily picked up, the silkies almost have to be chased into a corner before they will...