2007 Easter weekend. My 1st ever attempt to raise chickens
Now look at them thrive.
Our four hens don't keep up with the eggs with go through so I bought 6 more chickens. 2 leghorns, 2 marans, and 2 Welsummers.
I can't wait to build a new coop. Our current one was quickly put...
Did you just see that SL County has approved backyard chickens and Taylorsville falls into that. I live in Taylorsville and have had chickens for several years now..council knows about me and so does the mayor and even animal control. I've had animal control over when a neighbors dog got into...
Taylorsville started working on making it legal. As of right now the ordinances are so contradicting that they can't enforce anything. They do have a paragraph about family food supply listing chickens as part of it.
I love my leghorns. Both are very friendly to me and not skittish at all. I don't know if I did anything different but I even hold them and one let me catch an egg whole she was laying. My buff polish is skittish.
I wish mine would wait or double up. Nope, if one is in the next box, they lay on the floor. Doesn't matter there are 3 other perfectly good boxes with "fake eggs"...lol
Cool idea..a learning page about it, would be fantastic.
I introduced 5 new chickens to my already 4 and it took a long while. I kept them separate for a good 6 weeks(They've seen each off an on while the younger one grew) and we still had pecking injuries. Things were going well until last...
One of my Marans since birth always would fall asleep but otherwise seemed very healthy. She even started laying a few weeks ago.
2 days ago I noticed she was hiding and not running towards me for treats.
Last night I saw her in the nest box when I brought out treats and brought some to her and...
2 of my EE's started Molting in August and one of them finally laid an egg again yesterday. So it was 3 months for her and still nothing from my other one.
I have one leghorn going through a serious HARD molt and she hasn't laid in a few weeks. My buff stopped laying in August. She had a molt for about 2 weeks but she's free loading. My other EE hasn't laid and 2 of my newer gals who have been of age for awhile now have no signs of laying.
So I...
My EE's stopped laying in mid-august when they started molting. I don't have any extra light in the coop and only keep a heat lamp on their water to prevent freezing but they still are in "bed" at dusk.
So I assumed between molt and shorten days, I was in for free riders until spring. 3 of my 5...
I've had to buy eggs since August. My EE's haven't laid since mid-August and my leghorn started Moulting last week. My buff was never a gret layer and I have seen an egg from her for about 3 weeks.
My new girls started laying this week and I actually got 2 eggs today. I really don't like...
I had to come back and announce she finally laid her 1st egg. So I was right in assuming all that nest scratching, purring and butt shaking was her 1st time laying an egg.
I have one scratching like crazy right now and almost purring/growling in the nest box. She's been in their for about 1/2 hour now and her buddy has been pacing back and forth under her. her buddy started laying 2 days ago.
This morning i found another egg in the coop and picked up the egg...