Is it possible all of my chickens are molting at the same time? I have 7 hens and I was getting 5-6 eggs a day. Currently I am lucky to get one. Nothing hase changed as far as food and water. But the eggs have really dropped off. Should I find some sort of vitamin to add to their water or does...
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I have an issue I need help with. My flock ran out of water this week, I don't know for sure how long but I am guessing two days, I was traveling for work and the water didn't get changed. I filled the waterer with cool fresh water and the poor girls stood around and drank for a long...
Has anyone ever calculated the true cost of backyard eggs??? I mean the cost of the chickens, the coop, the feed, the other supplies needed. I have been averaging 4-5 eggs a day from seven chickens. Don't tell my wife, but I think my eggs are currently costing about $40 a dozen!
I know I know...
Hi everyone. I have a Barred Rock chicken who has a bald underside. Not around the flute but between her legs. She seems healthy other then this. I got here and one other BR when they were about four months old. As soon as I brought them home they went into molt. Now they have been laying very...
Well some of you might remember my previous posts about my chickens not laying eggs. I thought it was never going to happen. So this week I am traveling for work and I joked with my kids that they were going to lay the first egg while I was out of town just to spite me. Well...
Here it is. We...
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I have 7 chickens total, two are older and should be laying eggs, but we have not seen any yet. The other 5 are about 19 weeks, so I imagine they may start laying in the next month. My questions are as follows:
Will the little ones eate the eggs> And if they do, will there be anything...
OK Backyard Chicken Forum please talk me off of the ledge. I am not going to jump, but I may throw my coop and chickens off. So here is the deal. I originally bought 8 brown leghorn chicks from a local feed store. As they began to mature it became very evident that three were roosters. So I sold...
I have a fenced off area for my garden, chickens, and my daughters rabbits. We had a cage malfuntion and our baby bunny got out. We can't find it, but my neighbor saw a cat carrying something about the size of our bunny. I really hate cats and wish people would control their animals (sorry to...
I just got 4 new Barred Rock pullets to add to my five brown leghorns I raised from chicks. The BL are about 8 weeks and the BR are about 4 months. They are very stand-offish right now. How long does it take before they are one big happy family?
I have a question for all you chicken gurus out there. I have raised five brown leghorns from chicks. They have always had a nice clean place to live. When I handle them they don't have a smell, at all. There waste doesn't really smell bad either, but there is plenty of bedding in the coop, and...
I purchased eight brown leghorn chicks sexed at a local feed store. Three of them have much larger combs and seem a little more aggressive then the others. Below is a picture of one of the birds in question:
They are 6 1/2 weeks old. There is no sign of crowing yet, they are all very quiet...
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I have been lurking around this site for a little while trying to learn what I can. We (My wife, two daughters, and me) got eight day old red or brown leghorns from a local feed store about seven weeks ago. They have grown quickly and we just finished a coop for them to live in. We...
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I am new here, and new to chickens. I hope to learn a lot from all of you here. I started out with eight day old brown leghorn chicks and we are now at the point they needed to get into a coop and have room to roam. so I built (w/ the help of my dad) the following coop and attached run...