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Hello. I have 3 RIR and 3 Welsummer hens. They are almost a year old and have been laying for some time. When they started laying I was getting all light brown eggs. Shortly after I began getting a spotted and a speckled looking egg in the mix. I'm not sure which hens are laying them. Is this...

I have 3 RIR and 3 Welsumer all 22 weeks old and still no eggs. Is this normal ? I started feeding them layer feed at 19 weeks. I was told 19-20 weeks they should lay. I didn't want to prematurely post this so I gave them two extra weeks. They don't appear to be squatting as other threads...

Hello I have 3 RIR and 3 Welsummers. They are all 16 weeks old. I blocked access to the nest boxes when they were younger to deter them from sleeping inside the boxes and also to entice them to start roosting. I have seen most of them on the roosts several times since I closed the nests but...

#1 RIR 7 weeks old #2 RIR 6 weeks old #3 Welsummer 7 weeks old #3 on the right #4 (6 weeks old) on left. Welsummers

I know everyone has a different opinion but if it had to be narrowed down to one breed that would be considered the best looking which would it be ???

Hello I have 6 chicks (7 weeks old). Yesterday I decided to put sand in my run as I have been hearing from everyone that it is better for cleanup and smell. The sand that I bought is coarse and has those really small pebbles in it. I've noticed that the chicks have been eating quite a bit of...

Hello. I just bought my new flock of 3 Rhode Island Red and 3 Welsummer chicks. The breeder told me they are 4-6 weeks old. You can tell 2 of the 6 are a bit smaller than the rest. I figured they are 4 weeks old and the rest are 5-6 weeks old. I live in New Jersey and the temperature here at...

Hello. I have 3 chicks approximately 4-5 weeks old. I am feeding them Manna Pro Chick Starter. I have been reading that you can feed chick starter/grower until 20 weeks or they start laying which ever comes first. My question is that I don't see anything on my bag that says grower. Can I feed...

Hello. I am picking up my first chickens this weekend. I just finished building my new coop and I was curious what the height of the perch should be. This is a picture of what I built. Is the perch too low ? Will the chickens go over the perches to reach the nest boxes on the other side or...

Hi, Does anyone know if your allowed to own chickens in Howell NJ (Residential 3 zone R-3)? If so is their a limit on how many ?