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My Golden Comet is a sweet, docile and quiet homebody compared to the other breeds I have. She's laid an average of over 6 eggs a week since September 2010. Just the past three weeks she's started moulting and slowed down with the eggs.

My SLW stopped laying (and squatting) for 40 days in Jan-Feb. But she started squatting again a week before she resumed laying, just as she had started squatting one week before she laid her first ever egg the previous fall.

mealworms = crack for chickens--they'll do anything to get them!

Today it will be wilted celery tops, romaine and cherry tomatoes. And maybe a heel of whole wheat bread if it hasn't gone moldy.

I didn't see it when i went out to release the chickens this morning, but the dogs had killed a vole and left it intact on the sidewalk. No wonder they were all lined up looking out of the coop, transfixed......and here I thought they were looking at me. You should have seen and heard the...

Quote: Kudzu was imported to the U.S. as a forage, so it might be yummy to chickens.

Quote: Or you could salvage it by cutting a slit in the stem lengthwise where the borer is, extracting the borer, and burying the stem in the soil to reroot (still attached to the mother plant, though).

Quote: I've only ever heard them called hedge apples....horse apples being horse droppings. Not poisonous AFAIK.

I would cook the eggshells I got from an outside source, to keep from bringing nasties into my flock.

Quote: Actually, the two are distinctly different species. About 6 or 8 species of June bugs/May beetles are native or have been introduced to North America. June bugs/May Beetles for the most part are plain brown, whereas Japanese beetle are a strikingly handsome metallic green insect with...

My chickens graze on these items in my "lawn": sheep sorrel seed heads, wood sorrel leaves and seed heads, new sprigs of fescue and crabgrass and their seedheads. They don't touch the white clover leaves or flowers. They love the oats that have sprouted from the litter-mulched beds. Thankfully...

Quote: Chickens are treated as pets under the Health Code in NYC. Unlimited number of hens are allowed, but no oroosters or other types of fowl. Chicken area must be kept clean.

Quote: Amazonian ground parrots

Quote: It's the age, I'm sure. The golden comets are very calm, laid-back birds.

Quote: My girl's name is Kolu ("gold" in Hawai`ian.) She is the master-mooch of them all...."Buk bwuk bwaaat do you have for me?"

My sex-link is a "Golden Comet" from the local feed store. She started laying jumbo brown eggs with a few speckles at 20 weeks old on Sept 25, 2010. She hasaveraged 6.6 eggs per week ever since. In December she twice laid two eggs in one day. She's very friendly and less apt to roam like the...

No eggs for 39 days straight in Dec-Jan this winter, and then another 10 days a week after that for my 8-month-old SLW.

A look that freezes you in your tracks and causes you to back away very sloooowly.......

Mine go over a 4' fence effortlessly, even with a clipped wing. They'll taste everything at least once (pecked-damaged at least, and newly planted things will be uprooted completely), forget and try it again awhile later (damage, etc. ), and then scratch all around and through everything they...