I do not suspect egg bound issues, but I am wondering if it is possible to "feel" the egg inside the chicken by palpating from the outside?
I will go in to further details if needed, haha. Basically I want to know who has an egg ready to be laid at one point and time and check once eggs emerge...
Hopefully this is the right forum....
Are 16 week old pullets spent their first night outside in the coop last night, previously we had been bringing them in at night and keeping them in a large dog kennel in the basement.
they would basically bring themselves to the back door and put...
We got our chicks in April, just started doing some math :
If they wont lay until around the 7-10 month mark that puts us at November....so winter.
I will be waiting until next spring for eggs, wont I?
Chicken math!! Its for the birds!
Hi yall!
While I have a while to plan, as my babes are under a month old, I am wondering what to expect with free ranging birds.
We live in an urban area, we have just under a quarter of an acre total with the backyard fenced in with 4 foot chain link.
We cannot have birds escaping into the...
Bought these brown chicks as Ameruacanas a few days ago, a friend mentioned they were likely something else but could not remember the term.
Any ideas?
Also, the two yellows were binned as Cinnamon Queen.
Hello!
New here and also new to Louisville KY.
We moved here in January from southern Indiana.
A few nights ago while goofing off online it hit me that we can totally keep chickens where we live now.
Three days later and we now have a bathroom full of chicks My husband was less than excited...