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I am seriously looking for Welsummer Chicks - my problem is I only want 3 to 5 is anyone interested in selling me some chicks? Contact me at [email protected] Thanks!

No way?!! This is NORMAL??? IT was a huge mouse!!

Is THIS normal??? 4 Black-sex link hens - 1 year old....

Listerine!! Just wipe it on your legs... put some in a spay bottle and spay where you walk... works on mosquitoes too!

Well this past week my 5 girls laid 26 eggs and yesterday I got 5 - the most so far. Normally only 4 a day - 2 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. They started laying Nov 24 and egg totals for the week were: 5 Nov 30 7 Dec 7 19 Dec 14 26 Dec 21 57 eggs since they started!

Our Black Sex Link hens have always laid in their nesting box - and we are wondering if this summer when they have the bigger yard to range in, if they will still come back to the coup to lay? Or do I have to rent a Bloodhound to find their eggs? lol

Ours are doing this too - we actually have one little hen that we call thumper because she drums her feet like a Partridge! We pet them and ruffle their feathers - they want this twice a day....lol Thumper actually comes back around to have her feathers ruffled twice... lol

I'm in the UP of MI and haven't had any frozen eggs. Our nest box is filled with hay and pine shavings - is close to the heat lamp - and the girls are laying around 9 to 5 every day. We go out at noon and then again at 5 PM... We have been minus 25 degrees here for a couple of days because of...

I have this question in reverse sort of... my girls - the little darlings, have always laid their eggs in the nesting box. We have two but their preference so far has been the top one. We have a mixture of hay/pine shavings in the nest/s. We have 5 chickens and so far this week we have 18...

Hi - Western Upper Michigan here - we have 1 to 2 feet of snow and we are currently at minus 3 degrees. My girls have done the same thing - open the door they look out and that is about as far as it goes. Mine are playing with a suet thing for birds with seed stuck to it. I feed them spinach...

3 eggs so far this week - 3 more today - makes 6 so far this week 7 eggs last week 5 eggs the week before (first week they were laying I think we have another girl laying the one I got tonight was a light brown, not dark brown. We're thrilled at the eggs we're getting!!

Well I'm getting 3 eggs a day now (2 in the morning and 1 at night) and I think she's laying the little dark brown one. All of the hens line up to be "petted" (great I've been molesting my chickens and didn't know it... lmao) I pat their heads and pat them on the back and stroke their...

One of the girls will run over to the door - stand with her wings out - sort of folded and drum her feet like a partridge. Now, we had Partridge hanging out with the girls this fall - but what is up with the dancing? Has anyone ever seen this from Black Sex Links before? AND are they REALLY...

Isn't it fantastic?! My girls started laying November 24 - we have now gotten a even dozen. One day two eggs and yesterday there were three!

Hi roosmom - first time with chickens - ever. Whether this year or before. I know the chickens can see red tomatoe - etc. Although that seems to have been an acquired thing. Just recently going after the red tomatoes - prior to this they just ran over to see what I put in and then walked...