About an hour ago, I was walking around the yard with my four pullets. They love the attention, so I chill with my girls daily and they are very comfortable around me. I heard something shuffling around in their coop, and I saw it was a squirrel trying to steal their feed. I quickly shooed the...
Went to check on my chickens one last time for the day, and found my 4 pullets up in the roost, as they usually are at this time. Went to check for any possible eggs from one of them who has laid three (Sunny, ISA Brown), and noticed that my Barred Plymouth Rock Henrietta was acting highly...
Yesterday afternoon, I was walking outside to check on my chickens. I noticed very alarming and loud squawks from the two robins making a family on the side of my house. I knew that their nest was small, and certainly it was too small for their three babies. One had fallen out. These guys are...
I recently found my first egg, and we thought it was my ISA Sunny. But, once Sunny laid an egg in front of us we realized that her egg was different from the first! I have two ISA Browns, one Plymouth Rock, and one Easter Egger. The speckled egg is unidentified to who laid it. The solid brown...
Early this morning, I went to check on my four pullets. I found a special surprise from one of them who is now a hen, and it was a cute little egg! I assumed it was from one of our ISA's but I didn't have a 100% accurate way to figure out. Just thirty minutes ago I went to sit with my girls, and...
Today one of my girls laid a golfball sized egg, and it is their first. I believe it was one of my ISA Brown's, due to her behavior. Is this egg safe to eat since it is not large as ISA tend to be?
Currently, I am at a complete loss to what Laya is at this point. We bought her from Tractor Supply CO. being told that she was a Plymouth Rock pullet, ad she looked quite similar to the other Plymouth Rock chicks. We have at least one certain Plymouth Rock, two ISA Browns, and then our...