That's not a typo. I have not one, not two, but THREE forty week old girls that have yet to lay their first eggs or start squatting. Am I doing something wrong? It just seems very unusual to me. I have everyone on grower feed right now with oyster shells and grit as free-choice.
As I stated in the title, I have eggs that I set in December that are due to hatch tomorrow - and I am sick with the flu. Besides washing my hands a lot, should there be any other precautions I should take to ensure that I don't affect the health of my chicks? This is the first time hatching out...
Accidentally posted this in the wrong forum at first... hahaha.
These ameraucanas are roughly 21 weeks old and I still can't tell what genders they are. I just can't see any saddle feathers or anything, but one of the two started crowing the day after I got rid of another rooster (one of their...
I have a pullet that is acting a bit off. Not sure if she's laying yet (it's either her or one other that's started laying last Friday) - if she isn't laying, then she should be soon. She was fine before I left for school today around 1pm, but when I got home she was acting kind of... off...
After two weeks of squatting, one of my Delawares laid an egg! No idea which one of my girls laid it though. I went nuts taking pictures of it as soon as I saw it.
It was sitting next to the golf balls I placed in their nest box with the smaller part down and the widest part facing up.
It...
I have three Delaware pullets that are 25 weeks old now. Two have just started to squat in the past week, but no eggs yet. I put their nestbox in the coop a little over 3 weeks ago and they have ignored it until a few days ago. Yesterday and today, I've found poop in the nestbox when I got off...