She's really good with the chickens, but sometimes she gets too close. My red sexlink pecked her in the ear and drew blood. She's lucky this one just told her off!
I helped a friend out by directing her to the chicken ordinances link, where we discovered that she CAN have chickens where she lives! Yay! But now I am trying to help her find a place to get them. She is in Fremont, CA. Anyone in the area know where she can get some chicks?
Is this normal? I picked this egg up today, it's from my red sexlink that laid the "torpedo" egg the other day. It's wrinkled at the top and has this dark brown spot on the bottom. My hens get plenty of calcium in the form of yogurt and oyster shells.
This is the long egg she laid the...
They probably did get spooked. Or maybe one was talking trash to another one and everyone had to get a word in. It doesn't take much for mine to start squawking.
Ok so I that was definetely a super grande egg, but I cracked a few open today for dinner and there were 3 double yolkers (including torpedo egg). So either my other hen is also laying double yolkers, or it's just this hen and today she laid a huge one.....
Either way, it was really cool to...
THIS is the way they repay me. By digging a hole in the corner of the run to lay. So I have to walk ALLLLLLLLLL that 10 feet to get it. Or send my daughter. Poo on them! Snobs!
My hens JUST started laying. Like 4 days ago. My daughter picked this one up this morning right after our brown sexlink hen laid it. It's next to a large egg from the store. It's so long! I've never seen one this long before.
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YES! Mine will jump the fence in to my garden, then when I go to chase them out, they get amnesia and can't figure out how to get back out. Sheesh.
Does anyone else find it sad but slightly amusing that hens LITERALLY can't find their way out of a paper bag? Mine do this ALL THE TIME and I'm like "just walk an extra 2 steps and you will be out!!!" They get "stuck" behind a chair. Or inside their open run. Or behind a small piece of...
My daughter does this, cracks me up. One of the hens pecked at her and she got mad. She walked by and reached down to pet Lion (RIP our favorite snuggly girl, red sexlink) and the other came running over and my daughter says "no Blondie, not YOU, you're a JERK"
I didn't know whether to scold...
My daughter and I went to the feed store a few days ago for supplies, and she spotted the pullets for sale. She absolutely LOVED the brown sex links and was pleading for one. So of course, I got one. Chicken math strikes again, LOL. We took her home and put her with the others and she was...