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Hope someone can answer this question... I have a black polish hen that is 18 months old. She was all black with a white splash in her top knot. Now all of the white is gone and she is completely black. Is this normal? will she ever get the white splash back?

Great job! Thanks for sharing the pics. love the tube smusher- he looks so guilty! I don't have a fence to run mine against so they run right across the back yard. If I don't connect a lot of pieces then my husband tells me I should have connected more because the chickens like the long...

I knew it! I still laugh every time... I used the metal shower curtain rings because they were cheap enough for a pack of 12, 97 cents I think. I just use a few of them at each section I am putting together and since they do clamp close I wasn't too worried. I stretch them across a couple of...

Hi, glad your girls love it. I was amazed at how much they seem to like the tunnels and I keep wanting to add to the footage since I started out with a smaller roll of fencing. Zip ties will work, I just used what I had and since I kept the tunnels to smaller sections I had more string than...

Hi, I used the pvc arched roof for a chicken tractor and then covered that with chicken wire. Put a tarp over half of it for weather coverage and shade. Works great but if you are in a windy area the tarp will start to wear holes in it from rubbing against the pvc pipe. Nothing major but just...

Hi, these are true tubes. since they are made with the sturdier rabbit fence the chickens can graze right through it. Regular chicken wire fence is too flimsy to hold it's shape and wouldn't allow the grass to go through it like the rabbit fence. Any droppings fall through when I pick it up to...

Hi, I started out putting tent stakes in the tubes thinking that would secure them but then ended up not using them at all. Since the tubes are all connected and connected to the pen on one end and the chicken tractor on the other there is no place for the tubes to go so no reason to secure...

HI, the tubes are really light weight and I have them in different sections and configurations. Some are shorter or longer and I connect them with shower curtain hooks. Those metal roundish things. The sections that stay together permanently are just tied together with nylon kite string wound...

My pen is not as large as I would like but the hens don't spend much time in it. The pen is about 12 x 10 foot but 10 foot tall and they have an attached coop that they can also go under for additional space. The fun thing we came up with for our yard is the chicken tubes. I have made tubes...

Found this tiny green egg yesterday. The egg next to it is my normal small green egg from one of my polish RR mix. The tiny one is about 1" tall and so cute. A bit darker green than the others and it was from one of my Auracana hens that is only 16 weeks and one day old!

It is so difficult to tell on the Polish. Only way I could tell on my young ones is if they started to crow. By 15 weeks you should have heard something.

congrats on the first egg. That one looks just like the ones I get from my RIR / Polish mix hens. all four of mine lay the same greenish colored eggs.

I had 3 polish. One I still have and she is my favorite, very timid with the other hens and doesn't interact well. Very vocal though and she loves to follow me around. I have to give her special time because she won't come out of hiding if the other hens are out. They don't pick on her like I...

Twin Beaks... congrats on getting two eggs. I have one hen that is having egg troubles as well. her first egg was broken and laying on the coop floor. Her second one was broken with a hole and laying in the same spot. Third egg was laying on the floor but not broken... I figured out the...

question for you.... if I don't have these herbs available this time of year can I use a few drops of essential oils inside the coop to help? I have one hen that is laying eggs on the roosting pole. ( 2x4) instead of in a nesting box. needless to say the egg many times falls off and breaks...