I have to admit I learned a majority of what I know about chickens from this site. I used it to decide what kind of chics to buy, how to take care of them, how to build their coop, what was the best chicken IP camera to use, what books to get, even some name ideas (I stole the Original and...
Here is our first egg laid 3/19/13 by Extra Crispy the New Hampshire Red. She has been laying pretty reliably ever since with occasional double yolk giant eggs and one with no shell. She was about 22 weeks when she started laying.
Here is a short video of Flappy a 24 week old Easter Egger taken with a night vision chicken camera. She is roosting in the dark outside. I am in Florida and the temperature is in the 70's. She seems to hold her beak open a lot more than any of our other chickens. She is laying eggs pretty...