I am hatching eggs for the first time under a broody hen. Well, I am hatching eggs for the first time ever anyway. I put 10 fertilized eggs under my buff orpington on July 4th. I went out to check this morning and on one of the eggs, half of the shell is chipped away. The membrane is...
I got my first egg today from my first chickens....I got them in May as little chicks. This is so cool! What an eggciting day for me!!
Woohoo!
It is a small brown one with a little bit of sticky stuff on the outside. I am sure hoping that is normal but I will keep checking the chickens...
I got my first chickens in May. I have 4 RIR and supposedly 4 BO. Since being on this site, I believe I heard that BO chickens are buff color with white or cream legs. 3 of mine do but one looks exactly like the other BO's except has yellow legs.
I will try to post pics but what would you...
Hopefully this works. I am new to chickens and new to posting. If the picture comes up...this is what I saw when I opened the door to my chicken coop the morning after the chicks spent their first night in the big coop!
I have had them for about 4 weeks now and it is really addicting...