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Can hens be infertile? I have mostly seen they only talk about infertile roosters?

All of her eggs look normal on day one (image below) and then never develops. Only change is the big air cell. But the eggs of my other hens are developing normal in the same conditions.

Hi all! I bought a beautiful black Silkie hen (Olive) in December. First of all the person who I bought her from said she was ringed in 2018 and is not laying yet, but when I got home with her I realized she was ringed in 2017. She layed an egg the very next day, so already I was a little...

I have a 7 week old chick (Silkie/EE cross) who was perfectly healthy until about 4 days ago when she started to get shaky legs. Each day it only got worse, yesterday she was struggling to stay upright. She will balance herself with her wings, and sometimes when she put her feet down she will...

UPDATE: The dark one is a pullet, and the light one ended up being a rooster, meet Mr Tikka:

Hi Everyone! I have an EE, Noodle, that started to lay about two to three months ago and out of that only 4 of her eggs where hard shells and laid in the nest-box. Two large and two small. Now each morning there is a soft shelled egg on the dropping tray, so it happens in her sleep or early...

Thank you SunHwaKwon! I hope it stays like that, I will post more pictures over a week or two. Keeping my fingers crossed!

Hi all. I bought two EE's this weekend (well I was told they are EE's) because I am still a newbie, I would appreciate it if you could help me tell what sex they are? The dark one is only 3 weeks and the lighter one 4 weeks, here are some photo's. Really hoping for pullets! But after reading...