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I have two 2-year old Faverolle hens, one 1-year old-ish Americana hen and a pair of 6 mth-ish Copper Maran Pullets. The sun rises around 6 Am-ish now and sets around 5:15 PM. The days are in the mid 60s, the nights are mid 30s to mid 40, the cotton is high and the living is easy. So why aren't...

I know French Faverolles are always at the bottom of any pecking order. However as I'm going to be gone for better part of two months, I took my 2 hens to a friend's place for boarding while I'm gone. My friend has a Cochin buff hen with 10 two month old chicks. My 2 faverolles entered the...

WARNING: graphic and sickening story to follow. Yesterday a house guest and I were looking in my back yard and I noticed there were only 2 of my 3 Faverolles hens marching around. Seemed suspicious, but distracted I only had about 5 brain cells focused on my birds. An hour passed and my...

My 3 prima donna diva hens, Faverolles haven't laid any eggs since last November. I know it's a cold weather/hours of daylight thing. They tend to go to bed (roost) smack at the crack of sunset. When the weather went cold, they started climbing into the egg laying portion of their coop (an Eglu...

This is a cheering story about a missing hen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area in Brooklyn, NYC. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/garden/03domestic.html?pagewanted=2

Totally interesting article about a woman whose backyard chicken grew ill, resulting in a trip to the vet's office. I'm sure many of us can relate. For myself, I have 3 hens and I love the darn things, they are my pets. But if one of them grows ill, I will cry and then either put the critter...

EEEEEEK! When I let my 3 Faverolles hens out of their run to roam the back yard this morning, I discovered one hen has a black tip on her comb. Obviously the tip is gangrenous and I've no idea how that happened. Am I right or wrong to assume the black tip will just fall off, in the manner of how...

I have three Faverolles and I just went away over the weekend. They started laying March 1st, 6AM (ok, they always lay after 10AM). Anyway, I was away for 3 days, and when I checked, there were 8 eggs in the nest compartment (which I fed back to them in a smoothie). Now check my little flock's...

Sometimes the crumbles/pellets I feed my hens end up as dust. I have thrown it away as the birds don't eat it. I posted a little earlier today about what to do with old eggs that laid uncollected for a couple of days and the responses were I could feed the old eggs to my birds or other pets...

Beginner's Question: If my hens (no rooster) how many days will unfertilzied eggs stay fresh (eatable) if not collected from the birds for a couple of days? Should the eggs be thrown out if they accumulate for two or three days? My guess the eggs would be ok for putting in the fridge after 3...

Just an FYI here: I saw this essay article from last week's Sacramento News and Review. It's a good article. http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1387170

Holy $##%! I have three beautiful Faverolles hens who began their egg laying careers on March 1st of this month. Wonderful hens, I love them dearly. However, they are LOUD. I purposely didn't get a rooster, not wanting noise, but it turns out my hens are just as loud as a rooster and just as...

I've just googled my socks off, but still cannot find a site that will fill me in on the Stockton California Poultry show. I need to find out where, when, hours, etc. Anyone know where/if there is a web site with all the info?

There is an article in the Sacramento Bee this morning "Sacramento to rethink backyard chicken ban" http://www.sacbee.com/165/story/2389978.html As usual, the comments following the article is where the real fire is. Comments range from pro-chicken to those who think chickens = turning...

I'm curious - I've used two types of chicken scratch feeders. The little plastic ones where the tiny chicks feed through a round of open holes, and a bigger one where they eat around the edges of a round gallon container (food is about 3 inches off the ground. In both cases, about 1/2 of what...

Yes. Me again. Seem to be rift with questions since day one of receiving my chickies. This is just idle curiousity (of the sort keeps me up nights). Ok. I ordered 4 standard Faverolles hen chicks via mypetchicken, which I understand uses hatcheries. I thought that one of the chicks was going...

I ordered 4 Faverolle hen-chicks, received and fell in love with the little things when they were one day old. Now at 38 days two, which is half of my flock, have black beards! Does this mean my four future egg layers are 2 hens and 2 roos or do I have the four young hens I ordered (from...

Based on her 'duh' sort of behavior, and her inability to nab a meal worm unless someone else nabbed it first, I'm about 80% sure that either I have a runty blind chick, or perhaps behaviorally she's just dense beyond belief - and I'm leaning towards the former. I've posted about this runt...

2nd post on this week old sickie chickie. She doesn't eat on her own, seems to know how to drink - only once in a blue moon though. Unless I'm feeding her, she's sleeping. Not gaining weight, nothing in her crop I didn't put there, which is a mix of yogurt/boiled yolk/Pedialyte/sugar, given via...

My four Faverolles chicks came yesterday and since then, there is one runt in the otherwise hyperactive bunch. She sleeps a great deal, drinks water and HURRAH - saw her poop a little while ago. But otherwise all she does is peck weakly and am not sure I've seen her drink. I've sort of held...