Hello everyone!
7 weeks ago we had one of our 1yo EE's go broody (again) so we thought we'd give her a couple chicks and snap her out of it. We added them at night while she was nesting and she went after them so we had to separate them for the evening. The second night we sat there and...
We have a 4-5 moth old EE that has been having difficulties getting this egg laying thing down. She's only been laying for about two weeks now and she has really only laid 1 egg that I'd call "normal". She either has a soft egg, two eggs at once with both being soft, or a massive double yolk...
I'm sure it's totally normal but wanted to reach out. It's only one of our hens and it's usually don't before it starts betting too cold at night. Our henhouse has a very mild draft around the windows but stays relatively fine, temp wise. We're only in the 50's at night and the hens are 3 months...
We're a family of 6 from the Seattle/Tacoma area and are raising 6 hens for egg production. We picked up 2 easter eggers, 2 color packs, and 2 dominant coppers about 10-11 weeks ago and finished up our coop 2 weeks ago. We're new to chicken owning and have been reading everything we can get our...
2 months later, our chicken coop is done! Man, what a process. Early in the quarantine, we started to talk about getting chickens to fill our summer a bit, knowing we weren't going to be running around with friends and family. After lots of research and budgeting, we targeted a coop style by a...