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My buff Orpington had a clutch of her own eggs and cream Legbar (blue eggs) under her. We've recently noticed that she has been rejecting the blue eggs and find them cracked open with nothing inside. Today is the due date so there should have been fully formed chicks inside. Has she been eating...

I bought a proven rooster 3 weeks ago but all of my recent eggs are unfertilised. I know he has fathered chicks before but since arriving he has not mounted any of my 4 ladies. I attached a picture of an egg, it doesnt have the bulls eye so its definitely not fertile right? Any help appreciated x

Hi A couple of weeks ago we bought a pair of buff orpingtons. The 10 month old rooster was proven since he had been kept in isolation with his hen who had then gone on to hatch chicks. When they first arrived I cracked an egg from the female orpington and saw it had a white spot indicating it...

Hello, I know it really just depends on the rooster but I would like to hear how your rhode island red roosters personalities are before I get a rooster. Are they nice to the hens and to humans or are yours aggressive ?

my sisters chicken somehow managed to escape cross the main road and get into the neighbours garden opposite we tried hard to catch her but it got dark and we didn't manage to get her so we are going to try again in the morning , Im scared ! how likely is it that a fox will find her before I do...

I would like to get my hair cut and donated to a charity for children with cancer but I'm not sure which one to go to . I know of two: Locks of love and the little princess trust but I remember hearing some bad reviews for one of them a while ago that they discard or sell a lot of hair ,now I...

I have : eggs , milk , sugar , self raising flour , butter , honey , bananas , salt , and walnuts what can I bake using some of these ? I'm in a baking mood

would it be ok for me to raise just one chick, I would be with it a lot , when they reach about 2-3 weeks I will show them to the other chickens outside for small amounts of time each day then when it turns about 5 weeks I would put it outside.

lets post weird pictures that we have taken and the winner is whoevers picture is the strangest

for example chicky13: the littlechicken3: chicken blabla: ate coconutty: a lopono: laptop etc

is there a way other than a fence/wall of getting chickens to stay in my garden ? up until now they have remained where they are supposed to when free ranging but today my neighbor found them in her garden and then later in the day they again dissapeared and i found them on our driveway near the...

it seems there are so many different types of healthy chicken poo so i'll ask instead , what does unhealthy chicken poo look like ? PS sorry if this is in the wrong catorgory.

my chickens recently started laying but they lay at about 6 pm which is pretty late and it would be better if they could lay before 4pm so that we could collect the eggs after school , is there any way of getting the chickens to lay earlier ?

I got my chickens 2 days ago and kept them in the coop for the first day and night but the second day i opened the door allowing them into the run , they however decided not to go into the run and stay in the coop , one chicken laid her egg in the nest box and the other chicken laid hers just...

Do you have any stories or pictures of when you first met your chickens , how did you choose them ? When i went to get my chicken with my sister the plan was that i would get the black rock and she would get the warren but the man there handed the warren to me and the black rock to my sister ...

I just bought a point of lay warren chicken yesterday and she layed an egg today but the egg was pretty small , will it get bigger in time ? and what colour is it supposed to be because I was told they should be white.