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So far, my Black Sex Link has been laying for about 2 weeks, and she lays within a half hour of noon, every time. If we're going to get an egg, she'll do it in that time frame. Obviously she never read the whole '26 hour process' thing! The Black Australorp who is laying, well, I'm really not...

...It will be interesting to re-visit this in winter, because of course nobody will be out and about as much or doing construction/home/yard improvements, and the kids won't be outside playing nearly as much, *and* sound travels very well across snow covered landscapes. We'll see! Whitewater

2/3 -- but we're still waiting on the 3rd, she's still young enough to not be completely ready yet. Of the pullets that are laying, it would be a 2/2 day, our first! Whitewater

...Hestia has decided to use the R hand box while Antigone uses the L hand box. But one or the other is going to have to share with Cassandra when *she* starts laying! She's a few weeks behind the other two. Here is the new egg on the left, a store-bought 'large' egg in the middle and our...

Here in Minnesota we're just not supposed to get this warm . . . heat indexes well over 100', reg. temps in the high 90's . . . record breaking temps are 94' . . . we'll break it tomorrow, and along with that temp, there's supposed to be 70 or more % humidity. I worry about the chickens. They...

...it all . . . I hate moving so much that Hubby and I agreed when we bought this house -- our first -- that we weren't going to move again until *at least* our mortgage is paid off . . . in 20 years!!!! LOL!! (we have a 30 year mortgage but signed up for an accelerated payment program which...

I'm adopted so I don't know what I am biologically (save that I look *very* celtic) but my adoptive heritage is 50% Irish, and the rest about an equal split between French and Polish/Chechoslovakian (dang, I don't even know how to spell it anymore now that they're two separate countries!), with...

...why she was dressed so soberly and didn't have any issues. Mom, however, pointed to MIL and said, 'She's wearing navy, why can't I wear black?' *after* I'd told her that black would be incredibly inappropriate. That's my mom! LOL! If you are a pear shape an A-line would be perfect for...

...then yesterday was a true corker . . . ) My younger Australorp isn't squatting, but our black sex link has been laying since July 30th and she *never* squatted, nor does she now, and she also doesn't do the egg song thing. She also lays at roughly noon (within 12-1pm) *every* time...

...him or her to come see your setup and talk to you about the benefits of chickens. He probably wants some ammo when he goes to make the proposal. It's the first step, IMO! Congrats! Sometimes the wheels of government turn *very* slowly. This appears to be your first step, though. Whitewater

Yeah, I cried at the sentimentality until I discovered what the Humane Society's *real* agenda is (along with The Animal Rights Group Who Shall Not Be Named). Then I started to throw things at the screen because they were a bunch of . . . . er, well, family friendly site and all, I'll just say...

...you are making a lot of assumptions, and you know what they say about those! You can bet that if you cheese your neighbor off severely enough, *he* will have found and read the law -- don't play catch up! I would also advise you to be willing to compromise right now so that you don't get...

The answer to this question will be in your town/city/county and/or state ordinances that talk about noise or other nuisances. There may be nothing about animals, but you can bet that there is a noise ordinance somewhere, and your roosters may well constitute a noise nuisance, and therefore a...

When I open the door all 3 pile out, it's fun to watch. Unfortunately they have to share the yard with my two dogs who *cannot* be anywhere NEAR my birds, or else. This meant that I *had* to find a way to get the birds in and out of their coop without waiting for dusk, essentially, putting them...

One of my Australorps, Cassandra, makes a sound when she's worried about something that sounds suspiciously like 'Uh-oh!' Same tone and inflection and everything! I wouldn't put it past them to be able to imitate sounds, my three are pretty smart for having such small heads! Whitewater

Thanks for all the ideas! I went to the store after work and got them some lowfat cottage cheese (plain) and put some in a bowl, enough for each pullet to have about two tablespoons worth, along with a few cracked corn kernels and some greens to let them know that there was food in this bowl...

...My pullets refuse their oyster shell. And now for the past 2 days, my Black Star has been laying eggs with almost no shell at all, and today *would* have been our first two egg day, except for the fact that one egg was laid with hardly any shell and the other one, the shell is so thin it's...

Morningstar -- While I feel for you and your situation (which pretty much bears out what the AC officer told me about the kind of calls they get regarding chickens -- that it's always the illegal folks who have the problems), coming here and posting won't do much good to change things. It's a...

...1600's during the reign of King Charles, shortly before Cromwell took over, and Johnny Depp's character -- the Earl of whatsit, I forget -- was *well* known for displays of excess even during that infamously debauched century. He wrote a few poems, but mostly history remembers him for having...

...come to think of it) well-known bank and his second job is providing customer technical support for Apple's IPhone and IPad. He really *should* be one of those guys that works in a lab all day for NASA, making new discoveries about stuff, though. We are both MASSIVE geeks, and our first...