We have had free range chickens for about 9 years. Their coop is wood and hardware cloth on all "8" sides! The roof is corrugated aluminum roofing. There are seams where the hardware cloth was joined with wire. Everything worked well until last Sept 13th. A bear finally breached our safety net...
I have a perfectly healthy year and a half old Rhode Island Red Hen that has never laid a single egg after her first molt! I have 4 other hens of the same age and they have kept producing, but not her! Is it possible that she could have all ready laid all the eggs that were in her to lay?? She...
Well, since my last post in Sept. all 5 of my girls lay almost every day. 2 green and three brown. Funniest thing is they almost always choose the same nest box even though they can have their pick of three! I have even seen one girl on top of another in the same box. Silly chickens I am so...
Boy, I understand your excitement!! We have 3 Rhodies and 2 Ameracauna which are 23 weeks old and just got our first brown egg two days ago!!! And it was a double yolker :) We decided that hen was an over-achiever :) We got another egg yesterday but it was quite a bit smaller....still no blue...
So does this one look like a Pullet? If you look at my Avatar you will see this one plus another and I HOPE they are both Ladies??? Any input?? They are about 3 months old.
Wow, this page really made me worry about my girls! They are only 9 weeks old, but I don't want to lose any! They are perfectly fine I think, but I did just introduce a couple of measures to insure they won't over heat! They are very cute the way they like to walk through a small pan of water to...