Recent content by rocky222

I had one just like that, more potato looking than egg and massive. When I cracked it open though I got an even bigger surprise: As well as the usual egg innards, there was another perfectly egg shaped,slightly smaller than usual, egg - complete with shell. Sadly, that was the last egg my...

I think I love my three girls too much to send them off elsewhere. I spend a lot of time chatting to them, they wouldn't get the same sort of love and care elsewhere.

The "bully" is the older one and she is the most reliable layer I have ever heard of. She stopped for a couple of weeks last year when she went through a moult, other than that there have probably been 3 days in three years when she hasn't laid an egg. The other two are so haphazard and...

I do have two completely separate runs and coops for them. The only time they are together is when I let them all free rage at the same time - which is what I would like to do. But I agree, after a year of trying, I don't think I am going to get that. I couldn't cull any of them - I am far too...

If anything, she is attacking the stronger bird. I think it probably is a colour thing.

Also, the hen that is being picked on is a different breed / colour from the other two. Do you think that could be part of the reason that she is targetted? Are chickens 'racist'?

I had two hens that I raised from chicks. To be honest, they were a little spoiled - neither of them really knew they were hens, they were part of the family. Sadly, one of them died last year at the age of 2. I know how socialble chickens are, so we didn't want one lonelt hen. We bought 2 hens...