Thank you for the feedback. I am no longer convinced improbable immaculate conception occurred. Finding it in the coop next to a formerly-laid soft shell really threw me off.
Hello. I encountered something very odd and disturbing last night. I have 4 hens enclosed in a chicken run in my backyard. They were all raised as chicks from a hatchery and are just over two years old. One of them is a barred rock and was laying well her first year, but since last autumn has...
Thanks, everyone.
I think you're right, I think they do have me well-trained. When we got them they were eating only feed and scratch (we got them from a family that didn't want them anymore- they were 8 months old). We introduced greens to their diet and once they got the taste of them they...
We have two chickens and don't know the breeds of either- one's black and the other is red. The black one seems normal (though we don't really know what normal chicken behavior is). She makes nice cooing and clucking sounds, is inquisitive, and lays an egg every day with an accompanying cackle...