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That's good to know, we are doing just the oyster shell on the side and finishing the current bag of chick grower / mash. When that runs out we will probably start the layer crumble. Here's hoping the other ladies start laying but I think it will be a few weeks. There is only one other...

The one I suspect is laying is one of our Plymouth Barred Rocks, we bought 3 PBR and 3 Ameraucanas at the same time from the local feed store but this one seems to mature about 2 weeks faster than the others. 2 of our Ameraucana's from that original batch ended up being roosters so they went...

I wanted to thank everyone for their feedback. I've given them a few days together choosing their own spots at night and I think they are all now sleeping together in the roost. Our 4 1/2-month-old pullets just produced a soft shelled egg during the night so we are starting to lay eggs...

I went to go check on my girls this morning and discovered what I think is our first "egg" My girls were born around the first of December so they are about 4 1/2 months old. We hadn't switched to laying crumbles yet, we thought they wouldn't be laying eggs for another month or so at the...

I've been working on intergrating our 3ish month old pullets with our 4 month old pullets. The bigs girls have only been using their "big girl" voices for a few weeks. The little girls are fully feathered, similar in size but still smaller and chirp like babies. So far everyone has been well...