My partner and I have been together for 6 years, we made a joint decision to get a couple of chickens a year ago. We live on a friendly suburban housing estate, houses all around us. Every other morning about 8.30-9.30 the girls make a squarking noise because they are about to lay an egg. Once a...
Is it possible to let mother hen do all the work? Can she raise them in the coop on her own? Surely it must be possible, I know chickens are fairly domesticated but they must still have the instinct?
I'm relatively new to chickens, so I am so sorry if this is a completely normal thing....
One of my two chickens has spent the majority of the last 3 days in the nesting box. I have been collecting all the eggs on a daily basis. And she has produced 2 eggs a day the last 2 days by herself...
Hello everyone, I know this isn't the right area to post this but I actually didn't know what topic to place this in! So I stumbled upon something today that has completely blown me away and was wondering if anyone else has had the same results?
I have been putting raw egg whites on my face now...
Hello everyone! New member on this site and new to the joys of chicken keeping! We have 2 pullets, Beatrix potter (columbian blacktail) and felicity wobble (silver Sussex) and flick started laying about a week ago, her first egg was laid 2 days after we brought her home which had a hard shell...