Hello all! I have a few questions about winterizing my coop. I have attached pictures for reference. Here is some information about my current setup:
- I am located near Athens, Georgia. So not south Georgia but not in the mountains either. Kind of the foothills area. We occasionally get snow...
Hello. One of my hens is molting and hasn't been laying, which I know is normal during molt. However, this morning, I found one hard shell and one soft shell egg laid overnight, both broken open, assuming from the fall. Back in August, I found two soft shell eggs, one broken and one intact. I'm...
I have two hens of laying age: 1 year old Buff Orpingtons. I've been keeping an egg diary on them for the last couple months. All eggs have been beautiful, hard eggs. Yesterday, they each laid an egg. When I went out this morning, I found an intact soft-shell egg and a broken soft-shell egg...
Hello all! I'm still fairly new to the site but have a question about rehoming chickens. Possibly long post ahead...
Flock history: I have two 1 year old Buff Orpington hens (angels from heaven,) two 23 week old cockerels (possible Black Copper Maran and some unknown handsome fellow,) two 17...
Hello! New member here needing some advice. Is it possible to attempt a chick surrogacy twice? First attempt didn't go well last night. (My Orpington hen has previously only hatched one egg that produced a yellow chick, which was sadly eaten by a snake 5 days later.) She took to the two Orp...