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You can tell I don't know much about chickens. Haha! Now that you said that, I can easily tell that's what it is! Thanks for solving the (simple) mystery! :)

A friend told me she had a RIR she needed to find a home for. I took it, but I'm not so sure it's a RIR. Doesn't look like any I've seen. Can anyone help me out? I'm mainly just curious. We have a Buff Orpington, and though she looks similar to the buff, it is definitely darker and different...

Eggs left in a coop for two days (high temp of 80ish)...safe to eat or not? Trying to decide if I can salvage them or if I need to get rid of them (or feed them back to the hens). Thanks for any thoughts!

She's probably been getting it since about that age (10-14 weeks). So it sounds from both of you I should get something else, and just offer the oyster shells? We only have three pullets...and that's all we will have (we live in the city). The other two are about 7-8 months and have been...

I think I've been feeding my young pullet (about 22-24 weeks) incorrectly...for quite awhile now. She is in with two laying pullets, and they have all be getting layer feed since I got them several months ago. This youngest one has not started laying yet. Should I change the feed to starter...

There's a state thread?? I'm in MI too so this caught my attention. Where can I find it?

So we got a second egg today! That makes it two days apart from the first one. If she was older they probably wouldn't be that close together, right...especially since we just went 2 months without any?

Thank you for all the information! I think you have talked me out of it! LOL! But that's ok...that's why I asked. I would rather know all of this beforehand then get them, and find out the hard way. Thanks for your time!!!

Can a bantam be in a coop with larger chickens? It's a small flock...only one BO, one BR, and one EE. Looking to get one or two bantams, but want to be sure they would be ok together since I don't have a separate space for them.

yeah, I had heard that too, but after the first month of waiting I didn't think it was going to happen. We got another hen, and she was laying two days later and hasn't stopped!

That would be AMAZING!! I had completely given up on her!

I don't know much about normal egg size, but would you say it should be comparable to a BR??

Is this close enough?

So we have a Buff Orpington hen that we bought two months ago. We were told that she was about 10 months old at the time and "laying". We waited, and waited, and waited for an egg and finally gave up thinking that she was an old hen and the guy either got her mixed up (he had like 100 chickens...

Got some Duramycin 10 today for this eye problem as it doesn't seem to be getting any better. Question is should I isolate her and just give it to the bird with the problem, or give it to all of them? They have been in the same coop, but the other two (only have three total) aren't having a...

I know! Out of 7 chickens we have had, 4 have ended up being roosters. And a few of them (including this one) were the sweetest things. I'm glad to know that everyone agrees he is definitely a roo. At least that makes me feel somewhat better about giving him away. We live in the city, and are...

So it's now a week later, and I have found someone to take this guy. However, I want to be SURE it is a roo. My husband thinks I should wait, but I want to send him to a new home if "he" is for sure a he. He would be about 9 weeks old now. Please weigh in!!

She did a little, but it seems to have been better this afternoon. She still had it closed part of the time though. I actually got a call back from the vet, and he said to use neosporin ointment on it for the next few days. That since she didn't have any other symptoms and it was only one eye...

Yes! If you find anything let me know! LOL! I looked on here too, but didn't really find too much.

I just posted a similar thread on here about my bird that has something wrong with her eye that I just noticed today. I also did the DE last week, and noticed you mentioned that. I wonder if that has something to do with it...like irritation? I hope someone can provide some more insight. I may...