I've been doing a little research because I had narrowed down my green egg layer to my Barred Rock, and it does seem as though it happens on occasion to others. I noticed that you have a BR also. We have been getting five different colors from four different breeds, so I set out to figure out...
I have experimented with six different breeds of hens and the Stars (Golden Comet) are without a doubt my favorite hands down. We had a mild winter, but they layed every day right through and the eggs are extra large to even bigger some days! Our one remaining Comet, Thelma,(dog got our other...
We bought six Ameraucana chicks from our feed store that were all supposed to be female. We ended up with three and three. We gave the roos to a friend because we live in a subdivision and didn't want any crowing. The remaining three were raised from day old babies and never became friendly...
Did you find that your SLW pecked the other chicks? We've got three SLW chicks and three Golden Comets that are about six weeks old and two days ago when I got them out of their run, one of the poor little things (a SLW) looked like she had been pecked the entire night. She was completely barren...