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When I split up from my ex, I sold the house and had to give up my chickens (though they went to lovely people - a young couple that did the yard maintenance for my neighbors.) I'm in the process of buying another house now, after 18 months of apartment living, and guess who's getting new...

One of my hens, a Welsummer, laid her first egg this weekend. Her second one was today, and it was much darker and less noticeable speckles. I know that it takes a while for their bodies to adjust to egg-laying, but how long until they're fairly consistent?

I've been trying to find somewhere a list of various chicken breeds with when one can reasonably expect the average hen to lay. I have 8 hens that are seven different breeds ("Ameraucana"/EE, Welsummer, Polish, SS, Barnevelder, BLRW and a Belgian d'Uccle.) My understanding is that they tend to...

Hey, I've been lurking here for a while, and used a lot of the info on here to answer my questions about keeping BYC. Had chickens growing up as a kid, but it's a bit different than keeping them in the city!