I have a flock of 40 hens, in a huge coop (160 sq feet, 16 nesting boxes and more than enough roosts for all and their friends) with outside run and they free range. These girls have been together in this coop for 2.5 months. Lately I have a huge picking problem, causing bleeding and injury to...
My other half and I are not in agreement on this....
We have a rooster that grew up with the hens, should have been a hen but you know how that goes.
He has started to mate with some of the girls.
I collect eggs several times a day. If the egg has been fertilized can we still consume them...
HI! I am Beth, AKA crazy chicken lady!
I have about 70 chickens, mostly hens of various sorts for laying eggs, but also have Lavender Orpington breeding trio along with my Rare Isabel Orpington breeding trio.
Just finished building a 10 ft X 28 ft chicken mansion, complete with 2 breading...