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We got our chickens about 3 years ago, so they've been laying for about 2 1/2 years or a little less. I've noticed that since they molted last fall, their laying picked up to about normal (maybe an egg per chicken every other day or so) but now is slowing. Slowing enough that we only get about...

We have 13 chickens all around 22weeks old. 3 of them are DEFINITELY roos, and the rest, as far as we know, are pullets. This one has me a little confused though. It seems like "she's" got very developed comb/wattles for a hen, but it seems like if 'she' was a 'he', he would have at least...

Wow! Okay. Glad to hear she's looking pullet-like, but i'm a little surprised to hear she's not what they told me. Only a little though. Thanks everyone! I'm off to do my research on Minorcas!

Meet one of our three 12 week old Black Austrolorp 'pullets' from our local feed store. Up until this week, she's been known as "Ramona" and is the largest and most vocal of the 3, although I don't believe I've heard a crow from her.... that being said, we do have 3 confirmed 'crowers' in our...

our coop has shade all day & is right next to the garden, which gets water daily, so it keeps the coop much cooler than the rest of the yard. also, we give them frozen watermelon rinds, cold veggies & put frozen water bottles around the coop as well as keeping lots of extra water for them to...

This morning I headed out to the chicken coop, camera in hand, ready to take a small video of our 10 week old Roo crowing his little mini bantam crow, as he's done for a couple of weeks now. Low & behold, when I got out to the door, who did I see on the perch crowing away?? Not who I expected...

i admitted yesterday that i could just sit & watch our chickens for hours. my husband recognizes my addiction. i'm okay with it though.

i don't know if you can use any of these ideas, but i thought i'd tell you what we've done: i'm really new to raising chickens and, although my husband i have been talking about it for a while, we were a little ways away from having everything together when we won the raffle at our daughters...

so funny! this same thing just happened to me in my silver glitter flip-flops today! can't blame them though. most girls i know like shiny things!

i'm not 100% certain because i'm so new to this chicken thing myself, but she looks just like our 3 black austrolorps (although ours are only 2 months old)

well i'm certainly no expert, or anything LIKE an expert, but i'd say the last one looks like a roo (because he's larger than all the others, his stance says 'roo' and he has a more developed comb, all the others look like girls to me. again, mostly i'm just guessing though...

we've got 5 mixed bantams and i LOVE sharing pics this on is our main roo, goliath: here's Dai Ichi - we *think* he's a roo - although i'm still waiting to know for sure (love his feathered feet): here's Talullah, our pretty girl: and here's our two little black ladies, Cricket &...

we're midtown too (although all my downtown friends say we're on the eastside). i think the limit refers to any fowl kept on the property... although i'm not sure how strict the city is about it. anyone know? i'm hoping to get away with keeping our roo around. i'm hoping since he's a...

13 being unlucky is all about perspective. my husband was born on a '13' and it's always been his lucky number - so it makes sense for us at first when i started to read your reply, i thought, 'oh no! i'm breaking some sort of city ordinance and have too many chickens!'. yay for being...

we also introduced 2 new pullets to our flock and it seems to be going just okay. similar to your experience, they are staying relatively seperate from everyone else... although i have noticed that they are moving around more often and will come out from hiding to say hi to me when i go to feed...