I've got 3 older bigger girls and now have 4-4 mo. old bantams (one is a rooster), it is time for these little guys to join the rest of the gang. The big ones are a little territorial, any suggestions on how to make them a big happy family?
My girl started laying her first egg yesterday, she is really too young I think (hatched around April 20). Apparently all day she was pushing and "blew out" her oviduct, with the egg still inside. The egg kept stretching on the thin membrane or skin on the inside of the oviduct. So picture...
We are brand new city chicken farmers!!! We bought 4 pullets on April 27, assuming that they were less than a week old. When should we expect eggs? Do we need 4 individual laying boxes or will they all lay in the same one. Also, just got 4-5 week old New England Bantams in hopes to get a...