Danielnv....I thought of that as well. Did you crack open your egg yet? Has your hen laid multiples as well? We just had her 5th laid yesterday. I thought this would be a once or twice occurrence but she just keeps on going poor thing.
She's doing great! I'm going to have to keep monitoring her since this now seems to be a normal thing for her. Oh and her last egg weighs 6.5 ounces. Ouch!!!
Ok so we found this extremely large fully formed egg a week befor Easter. We decided to dye it gold "the chicken that laid the golden egg". We decided to count with our kids how many yolks were inside. We broke it open and found another fully formed egg! I had never heard of such a thing and...
Ok we just had the exact same occurrence with our hen. We found this super huge egg a week before Easter. We thought she must have just laid an egg with four yolks because of its size. We hard boiled it and dyed it gold "The chicken that laid the golden egg". Anyway we decided to count the...
Ok, so glad I found this thread! A few weeks ago my eldest son was outside in daylight (3:00pm) and saw a coyote in the back with a chicken in its mouth. By the time he got back there it was gone and had got away with two of our chickens. Of course two of our friendly favorite chickens even...
I know how that is...I think we are going to end up with a few Roos from what I'm seeing. I keep telling the kids that we have quite a few chicks and that not all of them will be able to stay. I would try posting an ad on Craigslist as well. There seem to be lots of people looking for chickens...
We have 26 in total. Partridge Plymouth rocks, Buckeyes, Araucanas, Olive Eggers, Silver laced Wyandottes, Blue laced red Wyandottes, Welsummers, Penedenscas, Exchequers, black marans and blue marans. I wanted the full array of colored eggs! The breeder gave us a few extra of each because some...
Thank you everyone for the warm welcomes! Handdmommy, my husband is in the process of building our coop! We looked at a number of different pics and styles on here and I left it up to him to decide how he wants to build it. Of course with a few strong suggestions on my part. I'll let you know...
Well we lost our little chick this morning :( She seemed to be doing better last night and she no longer had issues pooping but there must have been something else going on. The kids are pretty bummed out. It's hard because you wonder what else you could have done. Bye Daisy. We will miss you!
We found one of our chicks this morning letting itself get trampled on by the other chicks. When we picked it up we noticed it felt lighter and it would just lay wherever we put it. When I looked closer at it I noticed it had pasty butt. I cleaned it off, gave it some sugar water and isolated it...