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Ours finally started laying exactly seven months to the day the they were born! Looks like all green. Kinda small for the size of the pullet.

Me too sort of. I purchased six because that is the minimum MPC would ship. Then one expired in the mail. We rescued one (which turned out to be the rooster) from severe dehydration on day three. All are fine except they were supposed to be bantams and are now larger than our Red Crosses...

My girlfriend opened an egg today and was surprised to find a broken neon yellow yolk and about one quarter of the inside of the shell having a black spot on it. I didn't see it myself. We think maybe the egg cracked somehow? No noticable odor. It was less than a week old. We are on the...

Bumpa Bits don't ship to the US? I believe our feather eating issue is related to a nasty red mite infestation that took one of our older hens. It appears that the eater just pecks one hen in particular, but after sending the pecker to quarantine, one of the other bantams now has replaced the...

Here in CT, the University of CT does necropsies for free in order to monitor Avian Flu. Maybe you can try your area college that has an ag program.

I agree completely. Ask any old school farmer from up north how to keep your chickens warm in the winter, and be prepared to be laughed at! I'm here because we have a year old hen that just started dropping her feathers a few days ago, and is now noticably balder then her two coop mates. A...

I'm having a problem getting our three pullets to roost in their new coop after spending the summer in a too small coop where they had no choice but to sleep in the nesting boxes. They are sleeping on top of their new nesting boxes on sort of a terrace setup. I will pick them up and place them...