I have a 15 month old barred rock hen. She has been sitting on an empty nest with one golf ball in it for 2-3 days. She sleeps in the nest and does not get on the roost with the other chickens. She makes rocking motions at times and other times she just sits listless. It has been 90 plus...
We had seven chickens. Three nights ago a hybrid was killed by a predator. Two days later our other hybrid's comb was destroyed. Now the 5 remaining chickens are pecking the damaged hybrid relentlessly and brutally. Did the other chickens do the original damage to the hybrids comb or, was it...
I live North of Atlanta about 40 minutes. This morning my wife went to collect the eggs and found broken eggs, dead chicken with backside eaten out. It had been dragged out of its house but left in the pen. It still had a head. According the the article it sounds like a weasel but I was...
Our hens have been laying for about 5 weeks now. The eggs are still pretty small. Average size about 43 grams. Our largest egg to date is 73 grams.
Our Concern: When we hard boil our eggs we cannot peel them. The membrane under the shell will not release easily from the white of the egg...
I don't have a rooster because I do not want to alarm the neighbors. Are bantam birds not as loud? And from what I read a Bantam rooster should do fine with a full size haram.
I want to make sure I understand the parts of an egg.
One of the other discussions mentioned a double yoke egg would develop twins.
I thought the yoke fed the fertilized cell inside the egg. Not that the yoke would become a chicken.
To compare to humans:
Egg...
This is an early question and my first go around with chickens.
I have 7 chickens and will be rotating new chickens in once these get to be two years old. I want to keep egg production up.
I raised them from 1 week old. I couldn't find pullets ready to lay.
I'll probably replace 4 chickens...