Gonna try to post this again with an edited photo. Found this in a nesting box yesterday and unsure of what it is. My hens are all young and just beginning to lay. All our eggs have been normal and hard healthy shelled. No one is acting differently but reading about lash eggs is really stressing...
Do these eggs appear to be from the same chicken or different? One was laid yesterday, one was today. The darker of the two is definitely from my BO. Unsure if the lighter is from my BR? Or my BO…
I have a barred rock and buff Orpington who may have laid this egg. Any egg experts who can tell me which one it was? It’s our first egg. Wasn’t home when it happened.
My oldest three hens are 19 weeks old. My olive egger sure looks close to laying her first egg based off her comb and waddles but I’m new to this and wondering how long it may be? Can they be this developed for weeks before laying?
Hello! I’m super new to owning chickens. I got three babies last week, a barred rock, olive egger and Orpington. A week later I integrated 4 new babies (more Orpingtons and an Easter egger) They integrated just fine and get along well but I am suddenly noticing major aggression from two of the...
Hi all. I’m new to chicken world. I have a rather assertive barred rock chick. It’s always flying and pecking at my hands when I open our brooder, always stands “on guard” in front of the other chicks under the heat plate. Once I am able to handle the chick outside the brooder it seems more...