Background: Marilla is part of a small flock of eight chickens + one rooster that freerange during the day and shut up in a coop at night. They are generally all healthy and give us 6-7 eggs a day, taking turns skipping. They are all about one and a half years old.
Their free-range diet is...
Would you help me figure out whether I have any pullets? These chicks were hatched at home, 6 weeks ago, and the parents are a barnyard mix (Siberian egglaying breeds of some sort, most likely). Back when they were still small I read somewhere that early feathering was often a sign of pullets...
We set eggs on the 18th, but on the 20th had a 25-hour powercut. When the power went off we covered the incubator with half a dozen blankets, but when it became evident that it was going to be more than a few minutes went online to find out what to do and, based on advice from here and the...
After spending 20% of every day this last week on the forums, getting answers to all my questions, I decided to finally jump in and become part of the community.
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
Last spring, with the arrival of twenty one half grown chicks in a...