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My husband found our little bantam hen on the roost this morning looking like this. She had a small area of matted feathers on the side of her head that we cleaned up. We thought there was a wound underneath, but could only find swollen purple skin. She is in a lot of pain. We have put a...

Check out this egg from our EE, Bandit. She always lays big eggs, but never this big! It weighed 4 ounces and measured 3 inches by 2 inches! It was a double yolker. First time she's ever laid one.

I have 2 broody bantams that seem to want to share a nesting box. They started out in 2 separate boxes. One girl kept leaving her eggs to go sit with girl #2 and share those eggs. I gave up trying to separate them and just put all the eggs (7 total) in there. The 2 girls seem perfectly happy...

Has anyone ordered anything in the last week or so from homeandbarnbasics.com? We ordered an incubator on the 7th. The website has yet to give us a tracking number or any kind of update, but our Paypal account has been charged. We called their number... nothing. Not even an answering...

We've found 5 now. They are never in the nesting box. One right under the roost, 2 in the coop, and 2 on the floor in the run. I have brought who I think is laying them inside for the night. All of our girls have free access to oyster shell. This particular girl has laid regular eggs...

Just happened to notice this new label on the toilet paper... notice the symbol on the left side of the package FLUSHABLE really?! Toilet paper is flushable?! Whoda thunk it? Is there NON-flushable toilet paper? This has me curious.

I went to check the wing band numbers on some Delawares we bought back in November. Getting a hatch mate from same guy and needed to match numbers. First one was fine, got the number. Second one was turned a different way and was partially embedded in her wing. EEEEWWWWWWWW there were mites...

I bought Muffy as a buff orp pullet on November 9th. She was maybe 3 months old. As she is getting older, she is looking more like a he. No crowing yet, but Muffy mounts several of our girls. One poor girl has a bare back (but she absolutely detests the saddle). Anyway, look at these pics...

We have 12 girls. Only 8 are laying now. I think. We regularly get 2-3 eggs a day now. Just found out one of our bantams is still laying and NOT in the box. Anyway, the issue is that they all seem to want the same nesting box. This morning, Not Spur was in there and Chickpea and Leopard...

These Delaware pullets need names. They are our only girls who don't have a name. The one on the right has a lot more black tips than the other one. They are both silly girls who honk like geese. The more speckled one (right) is more outspoken than the other. Thank you for your help. Our...

We can't seem to keep our girls out of the compost bin. I don't think there's anything bad in there. Do I need to keep them out or just let them enjoy the buffet?

I noticed her hanging out under the coop this morning. Each time I went out today (6 or 7 times) she hadn't moved. She's all puffed up. I've been searching the site, but I'm not sure what's up. She's inside right now, wrapped up in a blanket in my DD's arms. Last week, I noticed that she...

I am curious to find out how much the average family spends a week on groceries. We are a family of 4. I think we spend between $75 and $100 a week. Is that normal or too much. I buy mostly organic foods and I don't buy any meat. How much do you spend for how many people?

Thought it would be fun to post these pics. This is me just before being wheeled back to brain surgery #3. I had cut 10 inches off my hair the day before. This is me right after I woke up in the ICU. I was only in the hospital for 48 hours. This is my scar. I have the lumpiest head ever...

Yesterday morning when DH and I went to let chickens out, we saw broken egg inside the coop, but no shell. We just figured somebody popped one out while on the roost or knocked it out of the nesting box. Who knows? This afternoon, when checking the nesting box, I found a perfect little pullet...

I am sitting here trying to overlook a HUGE basket of laundry that needs to be folded and put away, forget about the clothes in the dryer with the same fate, ignore DD's laundry hamper, and act like the dishwasher will unload itself and then clean up dinner dishes. Meanwhile Farmer Brown is...

Ok, so I got impatient waiting for my 23 week old hens to lay and decided to buy 2 more hens that were already laying. The new girls were favorites back home and had bare backs (Bandit more so than Smokey). I expected some fussing and fighting to get the pecking order straight again. My...