I don't really know. We only have 4 hens now. We got 6 as day old chicks and raised them together. Back in the fall, they ate the two buff orpingtons. We're not sure if they just keeled over and died, or if the other 4 killed them, but they definitely ate them. Happened within a couple days of...
I have two Rhode Island Red hens that will turn 3 next month. They have not produced eggs since end of summer. My Easter Eggers of the same age have been laying for maybe a month and I thought the reds would start soon, but I just saw another post that suggested they might be done laying. I...
My 6 hens are 2 years old. They used to lay every day, without fail. This past fall was the first year they basically stopped. I'm in North Carolina, and it's April, so it's warm and obviously we've had more daylight hours for quite sometime now. But they are still barely laying. My 2 EEs lay...
Small Fry laid her first egg! It's so small compared to Nugget's first egg yesterday lol
Also, fittingly enough, we had chicken nuggets and fries for dinner last night 😆