I have pullets from whom I'm anxiously awaiting eggs. Can anyone tell me at what age these girls start laying? I have a pearl white leghorn and a red star that were hatched at the same time that are laying but the Whitings aren't yet. Just wondering when I should look for their eggs.
Before we had our own flock, we had a neighbor whose roo would attack my kids in my yard. I found that a 1"x1" piece of lumber was a great deterrent. I whacked him with it and thought I had killed him, but he got up and shook it off after a few seconds. Thereafter, I could pick up a stick and he...