Recent content by NonstopNick

Thanks Annbella - All the girls are just a year old, they eat the same feed, although they are mostly free ranging. They have plenty of shade so I don't think its heat, unless that one chicken stands in the sun alone. Thanks for trying though.

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One of my Easter Eggers is laying HUGE eggs. They look like double yokers but bigger. When you crack them, they have a yoke and white, but there is no form to any of the contents, it just runs across the pan like a watery goo. any ideas?

I have since searched "cross beak" and found lots of info - thanks to all that posted so quickly. Mine seems to be a pretty bad case and I am afraid I will have to do the deed and spare her the inevitable. Thanks everyone, this is a great community!

Thank you, I just figured out how to post a pick, it is now updated.

So we have one chick that is 4 weeks old and has had a lower beak that started to migrate to the right at about 2 weeks, the beak is completely misaligned and I am not sure weather or not to dispense of the poor thing. It is much smaller than the others and I worry that as it gets larger it...

Thank you. So are they considered a duel purpose bird or an egg layer?

I purchased some Maran chicks, one hen, and one roo, they look like a barred rock. When I look at this site in the breed section it shows marans twice - one as an egg layer and one as a dual purpose, but neither of them look like what I have. Any ideas as to what I will end up with?

Like most, I have been lurking here for a while, reading and learning. Using all the great information gleaned here and elsewhere, we have started our first flock of layers! Two of each: Austrolorps, Wyondots, Easter eggers and speckled Sussex. We have a small ranch in the wine country and...