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I just cracked two fresh eggs and discovered something I've never seen before. I'm hoping somebody can shed some light on what's up with my eggs. A small cluster, about the size of the tip of my pinky, of whitish little circles was inside the egg. Almost looked like teeny insect eggs all...

Our four hens are 9 months old and all summer we got 3 or 4 eggs a day. Exactly one month ago they abruptly stopped laying and we had no eggs for two weeks. Then after those two weeks we started getting one egg every other day. This is our first year of chickens, so could this be due to molting...

I'm curious, one of our hens works on laying her eggs for HOURS and she makes it seem so dramatic because she sings the loudest egg song (not exaggerating..it is SO very loud) for hours until she lays. And then it's a tiny little egg each time. She just started laying a few weeks ago, so I...

We have four 6 month pullets (one has started laying) and they are all four very, very noisy at times. But it's becoming more frequent and I'm worried our neighbors (whose kitchen door is just on the other side of our fence) will complain SOON. Did we spoil them with treats? Is this a common...

I've posted once weeks ago asking what sex our chickens may be, and the consensus was female. However, now we've heard a strange crow-like sound coming from the coop. I still suspect it could be one of these two, or maybe both, are roosters? The one with the black head is aggressive and has...

Hi, so I'm confused about whether or not we should be worrying about racoons getting to our chickens during daylight hours? We lock them up in the predator-proof run and coop at night, but I usually let them out into their larger run from 9 am-7 p.m. Today though, I was in the yard and two big...

I have suspected that one of our pullets is a roo, but being a first-timer, I'm definitely not an experienced eye. Shy has always been the most "aggressive", dominant, etc. but I know that doesn't necessarily make her a he. They are almost 10 weeks old. Please take a look and let me know what...

First timer here~ have our four pullets in a brooder, though they are getting too big for it and every day we change the shavings because there is poop everywhere! Then when we feed them treats, they are so messy and flip them everywhere, including into the pine shavings and in their poop. Can...

We have three Ameraucanas and one White Rock, all 7 week old, so we're a long ways off from getting any eggs from them but we are curious as to how many we might expect weekly. I know there are variables (age, time of year, etc.) but what's a reasonable number from your experiences? Thanks!

We just purchased and built ours and I'm worried it's too small! We have four chickens. Our size is 4.5 feet high, 3 feet wide and 5 feet long. They will have very little free-range time as our yard is small and mainly garden boxes and a deck and we don't want them in/on either of those. So...

Hi! We have four 6-week-old chicks and they've outworn their welcome in our laundry room (stinky, stinky! plus they were spooked by our washer and dryer running constantly) and are now in our shed with the heat lamp. We're a little uncomfortable with running the heat lamp all day and night due...