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Thank you for the responses. I think I will try keeping them in their coop for a few days. While my girls are very tame and let me handle them quite easily, I imagine it could still add to their stress right now. Such a bummer, but I've loved having them and I'm looking forward to more chicks...

I had 6 EE's that we'd had for a year with no problems, but last week (coincidentally) while we were gone on vacation a raccoon (I think) climbed 10 feet up and got through a hole close to the bottom of our deck that we evidently forgot to cover and got 2 of our chickens. 2 nights later they...

My first egg!!! Laid 6/27/14 by my 17 1/2 week old Easter Egger. :) The silly thing just laid it on the deck under the stairs, and then I found another one sitting on the cement slab right in the middle of their pen door. I think she has no idea where to lay... And the second photo was a...

Good question, I've been wondering the same thing since I have EE's. I'm assuming a chicken always lays the same color??

Also, any thoughts on this chicken with the black head? She's my favorite, and is so friendly, so PLEASE tell me she's a girl!!! She's really the only other chicken that I think might be a rooster (only because of the pink color of her comb... all the other ones have very pale, and about the...

Maybe Catherine the Great is really Henry the 8th? ;)

I have 7 Ameracauna (or really, I think Easter Egger) chicks, almost 7 weeks old now. I'm hoping they're all pullets, but I'm beginning to think our one black and white named Princess Leia (by my Star Wars crazed boys) is actually a rooster. I've been reading lots of sexing threads as I'm brand...